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"'Bama Girl"
Tells the Inside Story of Homecoming (Race & other) Politics and Drama…
The “star” will be at the non-profit Capri Community Film Society to
discuss her story at the documentary’s one night Montgomery Showing as
part of the Southern Arts Federation' Southern Circuit Tour of Independent
Filmmakers on Tuesday, April 21 at 7:30pm. Following a screening
of the documentary, African American "'Bama Girl" subject Jessica
Thomas will engage the audience in a discussion of the film.
This powerful and enlightening documentary follows
Jessica Thomas'
quest to become homecoming queen at the University of
Alabama.
Thomas, a native of Birmingham, was a senior double-major
in broadcast news and political science at the University of Alabama. The
daughter of Carl and Deborah Thomas, she was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha
sorority. She is currently pursuing her JD at Samford University's Cumberland
School of Law.
The Crimson Tide's homecoming has a rich history filled
with centuries of privilege, old money and racial exclusivity. Thomas is an
African-American woman running against 15 other co-eds, a strictly segregated
Greek system, internal black politics and, most ominously, a secret all-white
association called "The Machine" that has controlled politics at the
University, including the student government and homecoming queen elections,
for most of the past century.
Along the way the film divulges some surprising
revelations about black vs. white, the Old South vs. the New South, and a
surprising microcosm of electoral politics that mirrors much of what is
happening across our country today.
"'Bama Girl" has screened at SXSW in Austin,
Texas, the Atlanta Film Festival, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival in
Birmingham, New Orleans Film Festival, and Indie Memphis Film Festival.
"Bama Girl" was directed and produced by Rachel Goslins.
Rachel Goslins is a documentary director and producer.
She has worked on productions for National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, A&E
and the History Channel, among others. Her short film "Onderduiken"
was acquired for incorporation into a standardized civil rights curriculum for
Northern California high schools. A former international copyright attorney,
she is currently directing a feature documentary on Muslims who saved Jews from
the Holocaust. She also serves as programming coordinator for the Impact Film
Festival which was featured at the Democratic National Convention in Denver,
Colorado, and at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a
program of the Southern Arts Federation, a not-for-profit regional arts
organization making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South
since 1975. Southern Arts Federation is supported by funding and
programming partnerships with the National Endowment for the Arts and the state
arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. For more information on the
Southern Arts Federation and its programs visit www.southarts.org.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is
made possible in part by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and
the National Endowment on the Arts. For more information, call the Capri
Theatre at 334.262.4858 or visit http://capritheatre.org
For questions contact:
Martin McCaffery
Director
Capri Theatre
1045 E Fairview Ave
Montgomery, AL 36106
334.262.4858
Know Justice, Know Peace,
Rev. Dr. E-K. Daufin,
Professor of Communication
ASU FSA Co-VP for Faculty,
AEJMC MAC Officer
Alabama State University, 915
S. Jackson St.
Montgomery, AL 36101-0271
PH:334-229-6885
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