Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

Directed by

Laura Poitras, RaMell Ross

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 60 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows African American residents of Hale County, Alabama over several years. It captures everyday moments and routines without a traditional narrative.

meditativeobservationallyricalgentlecontemplativeintimateslow-moving

What happens

Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a 2018 American documentary film about the lives of African Americans in Hale County, Alabama. It is directed by RaMell Ross and produced by RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, and is Ross's first nonfiction feature. The documentary is the winner of 2018 Sundance Film Festival award for U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, 2018 Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary Feature and the Cinema Eye Honors Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was released in theaters on September 14, 2018, later aired on television as part of the PBS series Independent Lens, and eventually won a 2020 Peabody Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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