HBO Documentary Movies has landed worldwide rights to “Grasp of Mild,” which took dwelling SXSW’s high non-fiction prize earlier this yr. Deadline confirmed the information. Rosa Ruth Boesten’s doc is a portrait of artist George Anthony Morton, who makes use of “his artwork as a car for therapeutic after a decade of incarceration,” the director instructed us.

“When an excellent pal of mine first instructed me about George and confirmed me a few of his works, I used to be instantly moved by the emotion in his artwork,” Boesten recalled. “Once I discovered extra about his story in all its complexity, I knew this story wanted to be instructed.” The filmmaker emphasised that Morton’s “trauma is rooted in his household’s cycle of systemic racism which comes with intergenerational trauma and neglect. We comply with George as he tries to interrupt that cycle for the subsequent era, whereas concurrently discovering his place within the custom of classical artwork and reconnecting together with his mom,” she defined.

HBO Documentary Movies teases, “Going again dwelling forces George to face his previous in his quest to rewrite the script of his life and uncover the contribution of African influences to the realist custom.”

“Grasp of Mild” doesn’t have a launch date but.