writer and producer and director. it s good to have you both with us. rachel, i will start with you, why this film now? well, we started this film back in 2015. we started shooting in january of 2016. it was prompted by the massacre in south carolina by the emanuel ame church. after that i started thinking about why was a portion of our country didn t think of slavery. i looked at classrooms and what were our children learning about their national narrative? there is this wonderful moment in the film with professor david yale, he talks about what it means to tell the story of a certain narrative of