After screening at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Seattle International Festival and BAMcinemaFest here in my borough of Brooklyn, the gospel music documentary Rejoice and Shout will finally hit theaters on June 3 thanks to Magnolia Pictures. Reviewing the film from the San Francisco Festival Variety said the film's "dazzling talent-display should exhilarate viewers regardless of religious leanings," and another review called it "the definitive cinematic statement on American gospel music."

Today we're premiering the gorgeous new poster for Rejoice and Shout, an image that captures both the rich gospel history of the film and the humble church tradition that it sprung from. Having grown up in South Carolina I'm very familiar with that kind of white clapboard church at the center of the poster; there are some Sundays when you can hear the singing and clapping just from driving past them. Rejoice and Shout looks like a documentary that both expresses the spirit of gospel music and informs those of us less in-the-know about how that music evolved. Check out the poster below-- the box at the bottom of this post clicks to an even bigger version-- in addition to the trailer, and look for Rejoice and Shout in New York theaters on June 3.