The Greatest Night in Pop

Synopsis

Directed by award winner Bao Nguyen (Be Water), the film takes viewers back to January 25, 1985, when dozens of the biggest names in music convened at a Los Angeles studio and checked their egos at the door amidst the recording of a song to benefit African famine relief — one that would alter global pop culture history.Chronicled in the doc is the massive undertaking to assemble the world’s most impressive supergroup in a time before cell phones and email. That group of artists, led by the song’s co-writers and two of the most significant musicians of the 20 thcentury — Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie — came from different worlds but united to record “We Are the World.”

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Crew

• Director Bao Nguyen
• Producer Lionel Richie
• Producer Julia Nottingham
• Producer Bruce Eskowitz
• Producer Larry Klein
• Producer Harriet Sternberg
• Producer George Hencken
• Executive Producer Angus Wall
• Executive Producer Amit Dey
• Executive Producer Becky Read
• Co-Producer Terry Leonard
• Co-Producer Kent Kubena
• Edited by Nic Zimmermann
• Editor Will Znidaric
• Editor David Brodie
• Music Goh Nakamura
• Music Darren Morze
• Music Supervisor Gary Welch
• Archival Producer Lina Caicedo