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Don Cheadle talks to the Associated Press about his first time directing with the Miles Davis film, Miles Ahead. Miles Davis’s nephew, Vince Milburn Jr. also talks to the AP about the film and how he named Cheadle for the role in 2006 during the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction for Davis.

Here is a short clip of Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead about the end of Miles Davis’s 5 years of silence in 1979. The film will show on the closing night of the New York Film Festival October 11th. Sony Pictures Classic will distribute the movie but there is no release date yet.