{"id":19140,"date":"2022-12-20T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-music-doc\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:08:51","slug":"selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez &amp; Stacey Abrams Team for Music Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, actress and activist Selena Gomez and author, entrepreneur and political leader Stacey Abrams have partnered to produce <em>Won\u2019t Be Silent<\/em>, a new music documentary for discovery+.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Kristi Jacobson (<em>Solitary<\/em>, <em>A Place at the Table<\/em>), <em>Won\u2019t Be Silent<\/em> will celebrate women in music who have used their voices to change history with their art and activism.<\/p>\n<p>Producing partners for <em>Won\u2019t Be Silent<\/em> include Academy and Emmy Award winner Angus Wall and Kent Kubena of MakeMake Entertainment (<em>Icarus<\/em>, <em>13th<\/em>, <em>Jennifer Lopez: Halftime<\/em>); Aleen Keshishian and Zack Morgenroth of Lighthouse Management + Media (<em>Selena Gomez: My Mind &amp; Me<\/em>, <em>Billie Eilish: The World&#8217;s A Little Blurry<\/em>); Gomez&#8217;s July Moon Productions; Abrams&#8217; Sage Works Productions; Academy Award winner David Seidler (<em>The King&#8217;s Speech<\/em>), Clara Hendon; and creator Abe Gurko. For discovery+, the executive producer is Igal Svet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe powerful women we will be highlighting are not only talented but have been on the frontline of pushing culture forward and holding a mirror up to political and social injustices,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout history, women in music have used their art as activism by bringing attention to issues impacting our nation and world,\u201d Abrams noted. \u201c<em>Won\u2019t Be Silent<\/em> is a celebration of the artists who have contributed to bettering the world through their timeless music.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Igal Svet, VP of documentaries at discovery+, added, \u201cMusic is one of the most essential and inspiring elements of the human experience. In its most powerful form, music can be both an expression of struggle and the gateway to understanding. <em>Won\u2019t Be Silent<\/em> will showcase the value of music through the lens of some of our greatest female artists and their powerful songs that inspire us in times of division and strife. We admire how passionately Selena uses her enormous platform to speak out on issues affecting her generation and Stacey&#8217;s tireless pursuit of change. Together with Kristi Jacobson&#8217;s intimate and thoughtful directorial eye, this film will shine light on these enlightening stories in a way that only Selena and Stacey can.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer, actress and activist Selena Gomez and author, entrepreneur and political leader Stacey Abrams have partnered to produce Won\u2019t Be Silent, a new music documentary for discovery+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[82,3791,6749,6750,6751,6752,6753,4899,6754,6755],"class_list":["post-19140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-discovery","tag-igal-svet","tag-july-moon-productions","tag-kristi-jacobson","tag-lighthouse-management-media","tag-makemake-entertainment","tag-sage-works-productions","tag-selena-gomez","tag-stacey-abrams","tag-wont-be-silent","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Selena Gomez &amp; Stacey Abrams Team for Music Doc - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Selena Gomez &amp; Stacey Abrams Team for Music Doc - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Singer, actress and activist Selena Gomez and author, entrepreneur and political leader Stacey Abrams have partnered to produce Won\u2019t Be Silent, a new music documentary for discovery+.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-20T16:08:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/discovery-logoSelenaGomez-1222.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"264\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/\",\"name\":\"Selena Gomez &amp; Stacey Abrams Team for Music Doc - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-20T16:08:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-20T16:08:51+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/selena-gomez-stacey-abrams-team-for-music-doc\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Selena Gomez &amp; Stacey Abrams Team for Music Doc\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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