Netflix Acquires Stephen Curry and Ben Proudfoot’s Sundance-Winning MLK Speechwriter Doc Short

The film, which blends new interviews, archival footage and watercolor animation, will drop on the service later this year, and seems likely to contend for the best documentary short Oscar a year from now.

'The Baddest Speechwriter of All'

The Baddest Speechwriter of All, a documentary short about Dr. Clarence B. Jones, the lawyer and speechwriter for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has been acquired by Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. It will drop on the service later this year.

Co-directed by two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot (2021’s The Queen of Basketball and 2023’s The Last Repair Shop) and, in his directorial debut, NBA great Stephen Curry, the 29-minute film was awarded the Sundance Film Festival’s Short Film Grand Jury Prize last month, and seems likely to contend for the best documentary short Oscar a year from now.