Piaf: Her Story ... Her Songs Starring Raquel Bitton

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Top 40 Charts/ Sparrow Productions Inc.) - Sparrow Productions Inc., the artist management company for French Jazz singer Raquel Bitton, announced today the Lionsgate Films release of Piaf: Her story ... Her songs, starring Raquel Bitton.

Winner of the Special Jury Award for the Most Moving Film Experience at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Piaf: Her Story ... Her Songs celebrates Edith Piaf's extraordinary life through stories and songs that reflect each major episode of her life from singing in the streets of Paris as a child to becoming the highest paid singer in the world at that time.

Raquel Bitton, who has been internationally praised as the foremost interpreter of Piaf's music, beautifully presents Piaf's songs through a theatrical presentation. Part documentary, part stage performance, Piaf: Her Story ... Her Song, is a passionate tribute to the French icon, written and preformed by Bitton that showcases 16 famous songs fully orchestrated including Piaf's signature songs "La Vie en Rose," "No Regrets," "Milord," and "A Hymn to Love."

Sung in both French and English, Bitton's heartfelt renditions and powerful delivery, along with interviews with Piaf's friends, family and colleagues, take audiences on an intensely moving journey.

"Tears flowed down my eyes," said M. Barber, Miami Herald.
"One of the most memorable events of my 26 years at the Denver International film festival. A touching performance," said Ron Henderson, Director of the Denver Film Society and The Denver International Film Festival.

The DVD also includes "Les Avions sont des Oiseaux" - a new original song composed by Academy Award(R)-winning composer Francis Lai (Love Story, A Man and a Woman) - who was one of Piaf's composers and accordionist. Piaf: Her Story ... Her Songs is truly the only film of its kind and a must have for all Piaf fans.

"The great French jazz singer Raquel Bitton has fashioned interpretations of Piaf's songbook that are the best thing since, well, Piaf herself sang them," said Janice Page, The Boston Globe.