October 26 | 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Cost:
FreePrice: $8.00 to $12.00

Additional Information

Oct 26, 2018 - Oct 31, 2018

1:15PM | 3:15PM | 5:15PM | 7:15PM | 9:15PM

See Cinema Village website for full line-up.

https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/the-long-shadow.html?d=20181026

Synopsis:

From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, a Southern filmmaker travels the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong-arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America. “The Long Shadow” is a disturbing story about the lingering human cost of ignorance, intolerance and inaction in the U.S., casting a long shadow over our national identity and imperfect democracy.

“Shadow is a gripping personalized history lesson, with Causey covering salient points, including how economics drove the despicable trading of humans. Her of-the-moment feature couldn’t be more necessary.” – Randy Myers, Mercury News

Causey and her team passionately seek the hidden truth and the untold stories that reveal how the sins of yesterday feed modern prejudice, which burns undiminished despite our seeming progress. From the moment of America’s birth, slavery was embedded in institutions, laws, and the economy, and yet even as slavery ended, racism survived like “an infection.” By telling individual stories—of free blacks in Canada; of a modern, racially motivated shooting—Causey movingly personalizes the costs and the stakes of continued inaction. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner once said, and this echoes one scholar’s warning: “We’re still fighting the Civil War, and the South is winning.”

(Dir. by Frances Causey, 2017, USA, 91 mins., Not Rated)