Hale County This Morning, This Evening

An Intimate Portrait of the Lives of African Americans in the South

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, Oscar-nominated HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic American South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming - despite the odds.

Photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross employs the integrity of nonfiction filmmaking and the currency of stereotypical imagery to fill in the gaps between individual black male icons. This film is a lyrical innovation to the form of portraiture that boldly ruptures racist aesthetic frameworks that have historically constricted the expression of African American men on film.

Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards. Nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Winner of a Special Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

"A poetic documentary with a gift for making enrapturing imagery out of what sound like ordinary, everyday events." - Kenneth Turan, The Los Angeles Times