Exclusive Clip to ‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ Doc
Blackfilmandtv.com has been provided with an exclusive clip to Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, directed by Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir. This documentary focuses on 80% Black Lowndes County in Alabama as they fight against disenfranchisement in the 1960s.
The film, an awards contender for Best Documentary Feature, will open theatrically in New York at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema on December 2nd. It was screen as part of MOMA's The Contenders on December 1st. It was nominated for the Critics Choice Documentary Award for Best Political Documentary.
The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper without power. This isn’t a story of hope but of action. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County.