Can you believe this is the first and only Mavis Staples documentary?

Mavis Staples performing in 2015. Photo: Miikka Skaffari/Film First/Courtesy of HBO
A few years ago, filmmaker Jessica Edwards went to Prospect Park to see the great Mavis Staples in concert. The show deeply inspired Edwards, so she went searching for a documentary about the singer, thinking there had to be one out there. She was familiar with Staples’ music through her work with the legendary Staple Singers, led by Mavis’ father Pops, and then later as