A father’s secret. A daughter’s reckoning. A nation’s dark legacy.
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Followed by a 60-minute panel discussion with director Susanna Styron, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Rabbi Caryn Broitman
Years after Lee Ed Frazier’s death, his daughter Jan made a shocking discovery: as a young man her father had participated in a lynching. Now, as she attempts to uncover the truth about what happened, Jan must reckon with deeply conflicted feelings about the father she loved, grapple with how to hold her family accountable, and face the dawning awareness of her own unconscious racism.
Winner Best Documentary in the NYWIFT (New York Women in Film and Television) Online Shorts Festival
Susanna Styron’s feature documentary credits include the award-winning OUT OF MY HEAD and 9/12:FROM CHAOS TO COMMUNITY. Her debut narrative feature, Columbia Pictures’ SHADRACH starring Harvey Keitel and Andie MacDowell, which she co-wrote and directed, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was distributed theatrically worldwide.
Other narrative work includes Sidney Lumet’s TV series 100 CENTRE STREET (writer/director), the web series ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE (director) starring Brooke Adams and the award-winning shorts A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER (director) starring Reichard Beymer and Ally Sheedy, and HOUSE OF TEETH (writer/director).
Susanna’s work has been seen in film festivals around the world, in theatrical release, and on such outlets as HBO, Netflix and Amazon, among others.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. An award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or coauthored twenty-two books and created eighteen documentary films, including Finding Your Roots. His six-part PBS documentary, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as a Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and NAACP Image Award.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an award-winning journalist with more than 50 years in the industry, extending her work at various times to all media including The New Yorker, NBC, The New York Times, PBS, NPR and CNN. Prior to 2022, She was the author of four books— an e book, Corrective Rape, which details the devastating way some men in South Africa attempt to “correct” gay women’s sexual identity; To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement,” is a historical narrative for young readers grade nine and up ,published by The New York Times and Roaring Brook Press. Her other two books are , New News Out of Africa: Uncovering the African Renaissance, Oxford University Press and “In My Place, “ a memoir of the Civil Rights Movement, fashioned around her experiences as the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, in 1961, now a Vintage Press paperback. Her most recent and fifth book, My People, was published by Harper Collins in 2022, and is a compilation of her 50 years of reporting on people of color. It was deemed by Kirkus as one of the best non fiction books of 2022, calling it “A wonderful showcase of the work of an invaluable 20th-century journalist.”
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Rabbi Caryn Broitman graduated from Harvard University in the Comparative Study of Religion, and received her Rabbinical Ordination from the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She has been a Senior Educators Fellow at the Melton Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1996/7) and a Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University (2017).
Rabbi Broitman began her tenure as Rabbi of the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in 2003. Some of her interests include: religion and literature, interfaith and multi-faith dialogue, and faith-based approaches to issues of justice and human rights.Rabbi Broitman’s vision for the Hebrew Center is to be a community of Jewish learning, spiritual growth, community connection and social responsibility for issues both locally and globally.
On her free time Rabbi Caryn loves to spend time with her family; read literature and poetry; cook (and eat) Middle Eastern Food; and walk, bike and Kayak around our beautiful Island.
