Photographer Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land: Narrative Movie Sets in the American South, opens with a dream-like image of a young girl staring directly at the viewer from a darkened doorway, her arms reaching out to part a curtain of swinging beads. The photograph was made on the set of Roni Nicole Henderson-Day’s “And the People Could Fly,” a film, writes Henderson-Day in the essay she contributed to Harris’ book, “about the gravitas of life.”
You already know this, but for the second consecutive year the Sundance Film Festival was forced entirely online, thanks to the pandemic’s most recent,
My New Orleans
03/01/2021
the program for South Summit 2021 which will take place virtually on March 3 – 4, 2021, convening local, regional, and national media makers, arts funders, and institutional stakeholders, with the intent of seeding conversations and actions around creating, resourcing, and amplifying film and media content that shapes how the U.S. sees the South and how the South sees itself. Participation is
free and open to the public. South Summit 2021 is made possible with generous support from
JustFilms at Ford Foundation and
National Endowment for the Arts. Visit
The 2021 South Summit will be the third iteration, following 2018’s focus on envisioning what it means for Southern filmmaking to thrive, and 2019’s focus on contextualizing and curating film at the intersection of social justice and Southern identity for the cinema, gallery, and museum space.