This story about “Sylvie’s Love” and Eugene Ashe first appeared in the Limited Series & TV Movies issue of TheWrap’s awards magazine
When writer-director Eugene Ashe sat down to write “Sylvie’s Love,” his goal was to tell a good, original story — the kind that Black audiences don’t often get to see themselves in. But that story has been on quite the journey. Ashe wrote the screenplay about a romance in the New York City jazz scene of the 1950s and ’60s a few years ago, filmed it in February 2019 and premiered it at Sundance in January 2020, where Amazon Studios bought it for what was presumed to be a theatrical release.