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The Changing Same
USA | 22 min.
Long Story Shorts
Bijou by the Bay
Wed, Jul 31, 2019 3:00 PM
Our favorite award-winning documentary shorts from around the world are packed into this exhilarating program. In Lazarus, we follow Lazarus Chigawandali, an inspiring Malawi street musician with Albinism, as he prepares to record his debut album. In Ghosts of Sugar Land, a group of young Muslim-American men question the disappearance of their friend who is suspected of joining ISIS. The Changing Same remembers the life of a 34 year-old African-American man who was brutally murdered by a mob of white men in 1934. And on the 70th anniversary of the lynching, Poet Lamar Wilson publicly commemorates the horrific act by running the 13-mile route over which the crime was committed. And finally in All On A Mardi Gras Day, a secret culture known as Mardi Gras Indians, a group of African-American men in gentrifying New Orleans, spend all year sewing feather suits in preparation for Mardi Gras. Each one of these shorts is a masterclass in empathetic filmmaking by giving voice to those who socie
Poet Lamar Wilson remembers reading Anatomy of a Lynching as a young man and immediately asking his grandmother if she knew Claude Neal. The book recounts the heinous 1934 murder and mutilation of Neal, a 23-year-old African American, at the hands of a mob of white men. It was seldom mentioned locally, and Wilson was shocked to learn that this happened in his own hometown of Marianna, Florida. Years later, on the 70th anniversary of the lynching, Wilson publicly confronts and calls attention to this horrific history by running the 13-mile route over which the crime was committed. Directors Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson carefully and assuredly follow as Wilson reprises his run for a third time amidst some folks who urge him not to in fear that he will come to harm. In the wake of naysayers, we meet three locals squarely in Wilson’s corner who do what they can to support his efforts and help bring rightful awareness to this brutal history.
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