A few weeks ago we had the premiere screening of a new SouthDocs short about the 1965 Voting Rights in Mississippi, produced in partnership with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. You can now watch it on the MDAH YouTube page and below. Read more about the film on the MDAH website, too.
Category: Documentary
Skipper and Wharton Publish Research on Lafayette Mardi Gras Celebrations
Voting Rights Act Film Screening Tuesday in Jackson
On Tuesday, September 22 at 5:30pm, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will host a screening of a new Southern Documentary Project film, 50 Years and Forward: The Voting Rights Act in Mississippi. The short film is a project of MDAH and SouthDocs, utilizing archival material from a number of MDAH collections to tell Mississippi stories through film.
Exhibit of Student Documentary Photographs in the Gammill Gallery
SouthDocs Film Wins Emmy for Best Historical Documentary
The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi, a film by Matthew Graves of the Southern Documentary Project, won an Emmy for best historical documentary from the Southeast division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The awards were announced on Saturday, June 6 in Atlanta, and Graves attended the ceremony. “It was such an …
SouthDocs Film on William Winter Nominated for an Emmy
SouthDocs Works with MDAH on Voting Rights Act Film
New Exhibit in Gallery Curated by Lauren Holt – “At the Habana Hilton, 1958”
SouthDocs Film Bury the Show Screening in Texas
Matthew Graves Film Bury the Show Screening in Texas This evening, Matthew Graves of the Southern Documentary Project will screen his new film Bury the Show at Seminole High School in Seminole, Texas at 7pm. Bury the Show follows the cast and crew of the Seminole, Texas high school theatre team and their quest to …
SFA Films and Website Explore Restaurant Desegregation
The Southern Foodways Alliance is hard at work talking about food and pop culture, their theme for 2015, but we wanted to make sure everyone saw their documentary work on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was part of their 2014 exploration of inclusion and exclusion in southern foodways. One part of this study …