Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT
Hal Jacobs, independent documentary filmmaker (with a little help from his friends)
“Screening and Discussion of Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence”
Hal Jacobs, whom many of us will remember from his years writing and developing written/video resources at Emory, now works with his son, Henry, making films. In 2019, they completed their first full-length project, a 50-minute documentary about Georgia author and activist Lillian Smith, who spoke out on the subject of racism well before the Civil Rights Movement took off in the late 1950s and who offered programs intended to address that racism, too.
The current pandemic has made it impossible for Hal to pursue the schedule of actual screenings and actual discussions of the work such as he had hoped to pursue, but we have happily introduced the substitutes he is making available into our schedule: a virtual screening (that our members may access from Sunday, July 5, through Saturday, July 11) and a virtual discussion (in a Zoom session on Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30 to 1:00). Brenda Bynum, who helped to narrate the documentary, will join Hal on the Director’s Panel, as may others involved in its making and/or involved, as Brenda herself has been, with the study and celebration of Lillian Smith.
The following link to the film (and to a related reading list) will go live on July 5 and stay live through July 11:
lilliansmithdoc.com…