Exclusive Clip To Exec Producer Spike Lee’s Son of the South

BlackFilmandTV.com has been provided with an exclusive clip to Son of the South, directed by Barry Alexander Brown and executive produced by Spike Lee. Vertical Entertainment will release the film in select theaters, VOD & digital on Feb. 5.

The film stars Lucas Till, Lucy Hale, Lex Scott Davis, Julia Ormond, Cedric the Entertainer, Dexter Darden, Chaka Forman, Sharone Lanier, Brian Dennehy, Shamier Anderson, Jake Abel and Ludi Lin.

Based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography The Wrong Side of Murder Creek and written by Brown, the film follows the true-life story of Zellner, an Alabama native and grandson of a Birmingham Klansman who is pulled into the center of the civil rights movement. The spring and summer of 1961 challenged the 22-year old to rethink his beliefs as he witnessed the heroism of John Lewis during the Montgomery Freedom Riders riot in May of that year.