After premiering at TIFF last year, Phase 4 Films is releasing Made in America on all home entertainment platforms today, including video on demand.

Directed by Ron Howard, the documentary follows the staging of the Made in America music festival in Philadelphia, a massive outdoor concert masterminded by iconic rapper Jay Z.  The idea is to bring together and showcase different kinds of music, uniting people and lifting them up from the hardships that we all face.

As a fan of many of the performers involved, I really enjoyed this film.  Mixing engaging interviews with vibrant performance footage of everyone from Jay Z and soul singer Janelle Monae to blues man Gary Clark Jr. and rock band Pearl Jam, Made in America is an entertaining and inspirational concert film that celebrates the power of music to pull people together.

Made in America is 93 minutes and unrated.

-John Corrado