"Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power" Civil Rights Document Trailer

"We wanted a movement that would survive the loss of our lives." Greenwich Entertainment has released an official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power< /em>, directed by two award-winning filmmakers: Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir. This premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, and it has also played at the BlackStar and St. Louis Film Festivals. The film tells the story of the courageous campaign of citizens and activists who faced violence and oppression in the fight for the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, but that was just the beginning. Lowndes County, Alabama was a rural, impoverished county with a cruel history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80% black but had no black voters, laws were just paper with no power. This is not a story of hope but of action, about how SNCC fought nonviolently for their rights and for Black Power. It sounds like such an amazing and empowering story to tell! Lost in time, but not forgotten. Glad the doc exists.

Gandbhir and Pollard documentary trailer Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, from YouTube:

The passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 did not represent the culmination of the civil rights movement, but the beginning of a crucial new chapter. Nowhere has this next battle been better embodied than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural and impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80% black but had no black voters, laws were just paper with no power. This is not a story of hope but of action. Through first-person testimony and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and the young organizers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) who fought not only for the right to vote, but also for Black Power in Lowndes County. Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power is co-directed by acclaimed documentarians Geeta Gandbhir (Puppies Behind Bars, A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers, I Am Evidence, Hungry to Learn) and Sam Pollard (Two Trains Runnin', The Talk: Race in America, ACORN and the Firestorm, Sammy Davis, Jr.: Gotta Be Me, Maynard, Mr. Soul!, MLK/FBI em >, and Citizen Ashe). Inspired by the writing of Vann R. Newkirk II. It is produced by Jessica Devaney and Dema Paxton Fofang. Greenwich Ent. will launch the doc in select US theaters+ on VOD starting December 2, 2022 this fall.

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