co-directed by her daughter brooklyn and oscar winner roger ross williams. >> does everybody here have love me for right now okay? >> reporter: you talk about in the documentary that it was really a persona when she got on stage and so when was she most herself? >> she was able to be the donna summer that everybody knew because it was a part of her. it just it wasn't everything of her and she would want people to understand that she wasn't just this cardboard cutout. >> she was a layered, complex artist. that's who she was. >> i have a et life. you're looking at me but what you see is not what i am. >> she really felt called to this dream of hers, this destiny she felt that she had from a really young age. >> reporter: documentary features never before seen personal photos and footage much of it shot by summer herself and narrated by family and close friends. >> bee discovered audio tapes of donna from when she was doing her autobiography. we used that audio as the base to really string out these stories. there's no experts. there's no mousse col gists. it's the story you would never h