Raoul Peck turns his lens on the land dispossession of Black owners

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🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this Washington Post Live conversation from Oct. 4, filmmaker Raoul Peck discusses his new documentary, “Silver Dollar Road,” which explores the history of land dispossession of Black homeowners through the story of the Reels family, and explains what drew him to their fight to save their home.

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0:00.0	I'm Jonathan K. Parton, welcome to K-PART.
0:03.5	In his Oscar-nominated 2016 documentary,
0:06.3	I Am Not Your Negro,
0:07.8	they'll make a role,
0:08.7	Peck turned an unfinished manuscript of James Baldwin's
0:12.4	into a celluloid examination of capitalism, racism,
0:15.8	colonialism, exploitation, injustice.
0:19.5	Today, Peck is turning that same lens on the Reels family
0:23.0	in his powerful examination of the history of land dispossession
0:26.7	from black owners in his new documentary,
0:29.4	Silver Dollar Road,
0:31.0	which was recently screened
0:32.6	at the March on Washington Film Festival here
0:34.7	in Washington, in October.
0:36.8	In this conversation,
0:37.9	first recorded for Washington Post Live on October 4,
0:41.6	Peck talks about what appealed to him
0:43.7	about the Reels family's fight to save their home
0:46.9	and why the meaning of home is at the center of it.
0:50.0	Whether you are in New York, Chicago or elsewhere,
0:52.9	you always hear somebody say,
0:54.3	I'm going back home.
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