Documentary Features
The Lorraine
In the heart of Memphis, Walter and Loree Bailey’s Lorraine Motel was both a thriving hub of Black entrepreneurship and a destination for the greatest musicians of the 20th century — a place where Civil Rights demonstrations were planned, musical hits were written, and Black and white artists created history together. Then, on April 4, 1968, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. outside Room 306 cleaved that history in two, and the world forgot everything else. Director Sam Pollard uses archival footage and music, along with the voices of those who were there, to vividly revive what was once lost.
A Q&A with writer Alvin Hall immediately follows the screening.
Georgia premiere
DIRECTOR
Sam Pollard
PRODUCERS
Dan Braun
Joe Wemple
Ben Braun
WRITER
Alvin Hall
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Sam Pollard is an accomplished editor, producer, and director. Between 1990 and 2010, Pollard edited Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Girl 6, Clockers, and Bamboozled, as well as produced Lee’s 4 Little Girls and When the Levees Broke. Pollard has also directed the films Black Art: In the Absence of Light, Citizen Ashe, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, Bill Russell: Legend, and South to Black Power.