First trailer for the documentary about Liza Minelli released

The first trailer for the documentary about Stage and Screen Darling Lisa Minelli, Liza: A really great, absolutely true story fell and it only took 40 seconds for me to cry.

Led by Bruce David Klein, Lisa debuted in 2024 Tribeca Festivaland was also shown in Hamptons Film FestivalThe Provincetown Film Festival and the NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festivalwith great applause.

The film is an intimate portrait of Minelli in the 1970s, immersing audiences in a tumultuous time in Liza’s life – her mother had just died, she was winning awards for her first film performances, she was in the midst of a drug addiction, and her first marriage broke.

Klein’s documentary also features never-before-seen footage of Minnelli during her European tour in the 1970s.

“As soon as we pressed play on the first footage, we were blown away,” Klein said diversity. “Right in front of us stood this beautiful, vulnerable superstar of stage and screen at the peak of his powers. She was literally the It Girl of the world at the time. Even the personal scenes where she just spent time were fascinating and revealing. Our team really had a sense of who she was and what drove her.”

Minelli, now 78, is involved in the documentary, as are a long list of her friends and family Fred Ebb, Halston, Bob Fosse, Michael Feinstein, Mia Farrow, Ben Vereen, Joel Grayher sister Lorna Luftand the late one Chita Rivera.

“How lucky I am,” today’s Liza speaks into the camera at the end of the trailer, “that I went through all the bad things I did because it prepared me for the rest of my life.”

A staunch gay ally like her mother before her (I must remind you). Judy Garlands The funeral was part of the catalyst for 1969 Stonewall riots?), Liza’s iconic, colorful personality and style cemented her in the hearts of queers everywhere, but it was her lifelong commitment to LGBTQIA+ rights, particularly the work she did around HIV/AIDS, a disease through which she lost many friends.