The award-winning documentary “Descendant,” which tells the story of Mobile's Africatown community — founded by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda — will get a gala premiere Saturday at SaengerMobile.
The award-winning documentary “Descendant,” which tells the story of the Africatown community founded by survivors of the slave ship Clotilda, will get a gala premiere Saturday at Mobile’s Saenger Theatre.
Attendance is free for the event, which will include a Q&A with filmmakers, but online registration is required. The release of “Descendant” stands to be a momentous occasion for supporters of Africatown and for the Mobile area in general. The documentary was directed by Mobile native Margaret Brown and co-written by Brown and University of South Alabama folklorist Kern Jackson. It retells the story of the Clotilda’s final voyage but puts more focus on Africatown as a community of Africans freed after only a few years of slavery.
“Descendant” premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in early 2022 and won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It won a distribution deal with Netflix and Higher Ground, the production company founded by Barack and Michelle Obama.
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