Look Away, Look Away
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Look Away, Look Away
Director: Patrick O’Connor Run time: 89 minutes Release Date: 12-14-2021 | SRP: $24.95 | CAT#: PRDVD4933 | UPC: 672975894795
Synopsis:
When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag with the most powerful and divisive symbol of the Confederacy. In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O’Connor introduces us to an array of activists from both sides of the debate over Confederate symbols, and captures the fierce five-year battle to remove the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shapes our sense of who we are as Americans. |
Awards & Press:
AWARDS:
Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians
"Outstanding programming on television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of American history"
Best Documentary, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
Best Film, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
Best Mississippi Film, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
FESTIVALS:
2021 Oxford Film Festival
2021 Georgia Film Festival
PRESS:
"A beautiful, powerful document that captures the issues that divide both the state of Mississippi and our nation."
- William Ferris, The Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“An inspiring and sobering documentary about the dynamics of public controversy in modern America."
- John Coski, author of The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem
"Powerful and compelling"
- Malcolm Good, The Flag Institute
"A fascinating portrait"
- Mathew Dekinder, Mat's Entertainment
Erik Barnouw Award from the Organization of American Historians
"Outstanding programming on television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of American history"
Best Documentary, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
Best Film, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
Best Mississippi Film, Audience Awards Oxford Film Festival
FESTIVALS:
2021 Oxford Film Festival
2021 Georgia Film Festival
PRESS:
"A beautiful, powerful document that captures the issues that divide both the state of Mississippi and our nation."
- William Ferris, The Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“An inspiring and sobering documentary about the dynamics of public controversy in modern America."
- John Coski, author of The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem
"Powerful and compelling"
- Malcolm Good, The Flag Institute
"A fascinating portrait"
- Mathew Dekinder, Mat's Entertainment