including the winner of the 2020 academy award, for sure documentary. this year, with some of the best films we ve ever been privileged to showcase. they tackled some of the biggest issues of the last 18 months, from democracy and covid, to race and the teaching of history. you are about to see three films here, plus my conversations with two of the directors. first up is the facility, directed by seth west lure. later in the program, you ll see mail down in dixie, and golden age karate. we hope you enjoy. [noise] my name is i am originally from honduras. my father is a citizen. my wife is a citizen. my son has been born here. my mom is a legal resident. i ve been here for 20 years. so, what is the point of ice having me here for? my name is andrea [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. all of italy, a country of 60 million
my name is tommy daras, and we are at edisto river creamery. big old quarter pounders. when i bought the creamery, i thought it was a beautiful park. i said, what s not to like? what kind of ice cream do you want, honey? enjoy, baby. thank you. if i could rewind this whole situation i would not have come to south carolina in the first place. i sell ice cream cones in a park. here i am in the middle of this crap.
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and a couple days later, i got a phone call. and buzz was, you know, very cautious, and i was very cautious, but over the course of filming, it was a three-year process, and i was really up front about what i was trying to do, up front that i was filming with tommy and the ice cream shop and i think buzz just felt like he wanted he knew i was going to make the film, and he wanted to he d rather be able to present himself himself than have, you know, me draw my own conclusions. has he seen your finished product? have has everybody seen your finished product? i m just curious. everybody yes, everybody has seen it. can i confess to having a few ideas that i m curious as to why the shop owners didn t try this. so, idea number one is, did they think about putting up, like, six surrounding flag poles,
the city administrator, none of them are helping to get this thing going. i think they ve got someone telling them, make sure it don t come down. but i don t know if i ll ever get to the bottom of that. it sucks. the controversy over a confederate flag continues tonight. justin and i have tried to exhaust all reasonable avenues, and it s just not working. tommy daras is now threatening to remove the flag and confederate marker himself. maurice bessinger planned it just so he could shove that flag up everybody s ass in the city of orangeburg for eternity. daras says he sent the sons of the confederate telling them if they want their flag and marker, they need to come and get it. what if i donate this whole property to the sons of the confederacy and they put flags and swastikas and what the hell ever, is the city going to be okay with that?