Exclusive: Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to Jeffrey Wolf’s documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts and is planning to release in Spring 2021.
The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into an enslaved family in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, he witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
In his later years, he poured out those memories from within, drawing and painting over 1,000 pieces of art from 1939 to 1942. Using historic and cultural context, the film brings the spirit of Traylor’s art to life and shines a spotlight to a remarkable creative gift that was long ignored and marginalized. His works have since been shown at New York...
The doc captures the life of the titular Bill Traylor who, in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art. Born into an enslaved family in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, he witnessed profound social and political change during his life spanning Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration.
In his later years, he poured out those memories from within, drawing and painting over 1,000 pieces of art from 1939 to 1942. Using historic and cultural context, the film brings the spirit of Traylor’s art to life and shines a spotlight to a remarkable creative gift that was long ignored and marginalized. His works have since been shown at New York...
- 11/10/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
The Margaret Mead Film Festival, one of New York's finest documentary and visual anthropology showcases, returns for its 2015 edition, screening from October 22-25 at the American Museum of Natural History. This year's edition will screen 57 films from over 40 countries, and even more remarkably, 31 of those films, a majority, are directed by women. This includes the opening night film Circus Without Borders by Susan Gray, Linda Matchan, and Northern Light Productions, as well as the closing film, Daphne McWilliams' In a Perfect World... This is only one indication of the diverse perspectives that the festival unfailingly achieves each year.Each year has a named theme, and this year's is "Thresholds." Here's how the festival defines that theme. "This year's Mead Festival finds us on...
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- 10/23/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Read More: This Filmmaker Turned His Own Documentary Into a Powerful Narrative Film The Margaret Mead Film Festival has announced the full schedule for its 2015 program. The festival will screen 57 documentary films from more than 40 different countries. In addition, the festival will include several special events, including discussions, musical performances and virtual reality documentary, "Herders," which uses Oculus Rift to place viewers in the shoes of Mongolian yak herders. The festival opens with the documentary "Circus Without Borders," directed by Susan Gray and Linda Matchan, which focuses on two acrobats trying to change the world through their performance. The festival's closing night will feature "In a Perfect World...," directed by Daphne McWilliams, which tracks her changing relationship with her son as he enters high school. The Margaret Mead Film Festival will run October 22-October 25 at the American Museum of Natural History....
- 9/23/2015
- by Ryan Anielski
- Indiewire
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