Film Screening & Conversation
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 – 6:30pm
441 john lewis freedom parkway, NE, Atlanta, GA 30307
Join us for a memorable evening to view the screening of award-winning documentary feature film UNSPOKEN with a conversation to follow led by Chuck Reece, Editor-in-Chief for Salvation South with filmmaker, Stephanie Calabrese.
UNSPOKEN explores the racial divide in America, through the experiences of one small southern town. Resident filmmaker Stephanie Calabrese offers an insider's perspective and an intimate journey that digs deep into the roots of this divide, entrenched by the 1946 Moores Ford Lynching, and the impact of racial injustice on the community.
Doors open at 5:30pm so you can explore The Negro Motorist Green Book Exhibit before the screening. Plan for a 2-hour event.
this event IS SOLD OUT!
Before the screening, 5:30pm – 6:30pm, we invite you to explore The Negro Motorist Green Book Exhibit. “The Negro Motorist Green Book” looks at the reality of travel for African Americans in mid-century America and how this annual guide served as an indispensable resource for the nation’s rising African American middle class. This exhibition was developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with award-winning author, photographer and cultural documentarian, Candacy Taylor. The exhibition, made possible through the support of Exxon Mobil Corporation, will be on view from March 30-June 23, 2024.
About chuck Reece, editor-in-chief, Salvation South
Chuck Reece is the editor-in-chief of Salvation South, a widely read refuge for Southern readers and storytellers. Its ranks of contributors range from bestselling authors to poets laureate to Oscar-nominated filmmakers to young writers just starting out. He was the founding editor-in-chief of The Bitter Southerner, a publication launched in 2013. In 2014, he won the Southern Foodways Alliance’s John Egerton Prize, which “recognizes artists, writers, scholars, and others–including artisans and farmers and cooks—whose work, in the American South, addresses issues of race, class, gender, and social and environmental justice, through the lens of food.” Since 2022, Reece launched the Salvation South Podcast, which encompasses his commentaries that run every Friday during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s radio network, an NPR affiliate.
About the filmmaker: stephanie calabrese
Stephanie Calabrese is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist with a focus on human stories and revealing moments. She earned a BFA from the University of Georgia. UNSPOKEN is her first documentary feature film, inspired in-part by her photographic documentary series “Hometown: A Documentary of Monroe, Georgia” featured in The New York Times. She is the author of the best-selling “The Art of iPhoneography: A Guide to Mobile Creativity” published by Pixiq (a division of Sterling Press) and Ilex Press and “Lens on Life: Documenting Your World Through Photography” published by Focal Press and Ilex Press. Both books have been translated into numerous languages and have been sold throughout the world. She is a past TEDx Talk speaker on “Building a Better World, One Picture at a Time.” Her documentary work has been featured in Time Lightbox, Forbes.com, LIFE.com, Digital Photo, Photo.net, Professional Photographer, and The Bitter Southerner.
