Hale County This Morning, This Evening enters the Oscar nomination voting homestretch with added momentum. The documentary by RaMell Ross captured Outstanding Nonfiction Feature at the Cinema Eye Honors in New York Thursday night, the latest prize for a film that has been racking up awards since it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival last January.
“It’s really gratifying,” Ross tells Deadline when pressed for his reaction to the film’s reception. “I’m eternally appreciative of the team that we had. We were like, ‘I don’t care what anyone says. We like the film. We can stand behind what we did.’”
What Ross and his team did was to create a film that observes in compelling detail the African-American experience in a rural part of Alabama. Black lives here are rendered in poetic imagery of wonder and beauty, in sharp contrast to typical depictions of African-American life...
“It’s really gratifying,” Ross tells Deadline when pressed for his reaction to the film’s reception. “I’m eternally appreciative of the team that we had. We were like, ‘I don’t care what anyone says. We like the film. We can stand behind what we did.’”
What Ross and his team did was to create a film that observes in compelling detail the African-American experience in a rural part of Alabama. Black lives here are rendered in poetic imagery of wonder and beauty, in sharp contrast to typical depictions of African-American life...
- 1/11/2019
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
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