Questlove’s Academy Award-nominated documentary Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is getting a remarkable boost for its Oscar chances, as it has been announced that the film will be premiering on network television. 

ABC announced it will air the film in primetime on Sunday, February 20. The documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969 is produced by Disney’s Onyx Collective, Searchlight Pictures, and Hulu. Summer of Soul began streaming on Hulu in July 2021, simultaneously with its theatrical release. 

“In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary – part music film, part historical record – created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion,” ABC noted in a release. “Over the course of six weeks in summer 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten – until now.”

Summer of Soul premiered last January at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. documentary and the Audience Award. The film features original concert footage from the 1969 festival, documenting the defining cultural moment in black arts and creativity. 

“This film is about healing,” Questlove told Deadline in an interview just after the Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning. “The intention of the film was that the world could see this joy, this beauty, and the vision and the boldness and the bravery to try to organize [the concert series]. Even though it took 50 years for it to get to this place, it finally found its place in the sun.”