Community Corner:  Hindsight Film Festival  presents FREE screening of 'The Disappearance of Miss Scott', a PBS American Masters film
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This Friday, June 6, a film documenting the life of jazz virtuoso and civil rights pioneer Hazel Scott will be screened in Savannah.

It also marks the debut of a new film festival making its way to the Hostess City next year.

Patrick Longstreth is the director of Hindsight Film Fest.

He sat down with ‘s Kim Gusby in today’s Community Corner to talk about the project an its purpose.

Click the arrow in the video box above to watch the interview.

Many individuals might recognize Longstreth’s work. He directed “The Day that Shook Georgia,” a documentary about one of the most severe industrial disasters in United States history.

The Hindsight Film Festival will host a complimentary screening of ‘The Disappearance of Miss Scott,’ a film from PBS American Masters. This film narrates the story of Hazel Scott, the first Black American with her own television show. Scott was an early advocate for civil rights who confronted the Red Scare at the potential expense of her career and was a proponent for equality.

After the film, there will be a Q&A session with Emmy Award-winning director Nicole London and Adam Clayton Powell III, who is both a journalist and the son of Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African American elected to Congress from New York in 1945.

The event is co-sponsored by The Better Angels Society (Ken Burns Prize for Film) and CinemaSavannah.

“The Disappearance of Miss Scott”

Friday, June 6

7 pm, Doors open at 6

Otis S. Johnson Cultural Center

FREE!

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