Producers' Forum: Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds by Raynald Leconte

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds by Raynald Leconte

(USA, 2025, 65 minutes)

Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds chronicles the enduring legacy of Yoruba civilization and its profound global influence. Following the remarkable journey of Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka among other internationally celebrated artists and cultural icons, the film features performances from Brazilian music legends Gilberto Gil and Carlinhos Brown, Afrobeat stars Seun Kuti, Brymo, and Falana, and more. The film received the 2026 Programmer’s Award for Best Documentary at the Los Angeles Pan-African Film Festival. 

Raynald Leconte is an award-winning Haitian American director and producer exploring culture, history, and identity. Through SpiralH Films, his work traces the African diaspora’s enduring influence across Africa, the Americas, and Europe, urging preservation of African histories and traditions. Educated in England, with a UN career across three continents, he lives in New York. His latest, Amazing Grace: YorubaWorlds, won Programmers’ Best Feature Documentary at PAFF 2026. Earlier films: In the Eye of the Spiral (2014), on Haiti, narrated by Annie Lennox with music by Brian Eno (Best Feature Documentary, Big Apple Film Festival), and Real Maravilloso (2018), on Cuba. https://amazinggraceyw.film/  and https://www.spiralh.com/.