Helen Reddy Biopic To Hit Streaming Service After COVID Halts Cinema Release

Helen Reddy biopic I Am Woman will premiere on Stan next month after the planned cinema release was pulled due to the COVID pandemic. 

The film was scheduled to hit cinemas on 21 May, however it will now screen exclusively on the local streaming service from 28 August.

“I am so thrilled that audiences in Australia will finally get to see our film," director Unjoo Moon said.

"During these tough times it’s deeply meaningful to me that the release of Helen Reddy’s inspirational story I Am Woman will kick off with Stan in Australia.

"Not only did Helen’s story begin in Australia but so did our journey of making this movie."

I Am Woman tells the story of the Melbourne-born singer who "arrived in New York in 1966, virtually broke and a single mother of a toddler, before she went on to become one of the most successful recording artists of her generation". 

Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Hotel Mumbai, 52 Tuesdays) stars as Reddy, alongside names like Evan Peters (X-Men, Deadpool 2) as Reddy's manager and husband, Jeff Wald and Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$, Bird Box) as journalist Lilian Roxon.