Daily News | Malcolm Kenyatta’s political and personal life form the focus of ‘Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn’
Malcolm Kenyatta in Tim Harris' documentary, "Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn." The film is awaiting distribution.A new documentary goes behind the scenes of Pennsylvania State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta’s 2022 run to become the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate., directed by Hatfield native Tim Harris and executive produced by Today’s Al Roker, examines the underdog story of a unique candidate — a Black gay man from working-class North Philly whose— up against then-Lt. Gov.
“It very much felt like an X-ray for the soul,” said Kenyatta to The Inquirer. “I don’t know of another political documentary, where you get to see something that personal…as scary as that was, I knew that it could lead to something really special.” When Kenyatta was elected State Rep. in 2018 as the first openly LGBTQ+ person of color to serve in Pennsylvania’s General Assembly, Harris filmedKenyatta was resistant to inviting a filmmaker, even one he knew, to shadow him. “I’m not a huge consumer of reality TV, other than,” said Kenyatta, laughing. “I just do not operate well, like, faking the funk, so I knew that giving [Harris] this access, you’d be able to see me…the highs and the lows.
Roker was impressed with the politician’s charisma and believed that he represented a greater shift where more people of color and young people are eager to get politically involved. “There are so many Malcolms out there, I think more and more running for office, people who don’t fit what we used to see, as [elected officials]...This is not a person who is, you know, a lawyer, a millionaire. He’s very much like the constituents he represents.
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