ORCHESTRATED

documentary in development

Orchestrated charts the unknown story of the first full-time African American symphony orchestra, in the context of a century-long Black struggle for an equal place in classical music. It follows Kyle P. Waker, an emerging pianist, podcaster, and BLM activist with an unflinching sense of purpose, and Alex Walker, a British conductor, on a quest to uncover the lost traces of this audacious project, to connect to living witnesses, and to understand why this important chapter of our shared history has been excluded from the history books.

Writer/Director: Natalia Iyudin
with: Kyle P. Walker and Alexander Walker
Advisor: Sam Pollard

Writer/Director of Photography: Bongani Mlambo

Creative Consultant: Ross Kauffman

Producers: Kashka Glowacka, Nicholas Weissman

Writer: David Goldfarb

DP: Guy Pooles
Consulting Producer: Adetoro Makinde
EP/Head of Research: Ania Perzanowska


Production company: Genuine Interest