“We took the opportunity during a long drive through the Carolinas, West Virginia, and Virginia to binge-listen to Deep South from Witness docs. We didn’t intend to listen straight through, but we had no choice; we were instantly hooked! Neil Shea, a journalist I’ve long admired for his writing, has translated his thoughtful, compassionate curiosity to the microphone as he and his filmmaker parter Taylor Hom go in search of answers to an unsolved lynching that happened more than a half century ago. But that powerful wholly unjust and abhorrent act is, in many ways, such a small part of the story. It’s really about stepping into a world and dissecting the dynamics of the relationships within it, like a Tolstoy novel, and then watching as Neil and Taylor draw the clear threads to what it all means to us, here, now. More than ever. Say his name: Isadore Banks. Highly recommended.”
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United States of America ·
03/07/21