“Everything that happened [in 2020] plays into what happened in Tulsa,” Jonathan Silvers, the film’s director, told the Guardian. Photograph: Jonathan Silvers/Saybrook Productions LtdBrown’s paternal family hailed from in and around Tulsa, but she rarely heard mention of the massacre growing up. Silvers, a veteran documentarian of war crimes abroad, first learned of the Tulsa massacre from Brown’s reporting in 2018. “I was shocked because I had never heard of mass graves in my country, certainly not related to an episode of racial violence,” he said. “There has to be a point in the story where there’s an acknowledgment of the generational pain that was caused by the massacre,” said Brown.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2021 06:11 UTC