Red Hook Summer

…a role in Spike Lee’s Red Hook Summer (2012), and he composed and performed songs for Pixar’s animated film Soul (2020). He also wrote a song for the 2021 documentary about the COVID-19 pandemic The First Wave. In addition to acting in Lee’s film, Batiste made other appearances, including acting…

…Spike Lee) the screenplay for Red Hook Summer (2012), which Lee directed and which was partially based on McBride’s childhood in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The film is about a young boy from Atlanta who is sent to New York to spend the summer with his grandfather, a preacher living in…