STARS AND BARS AFLAME EXTENDED TRAILER

Extended trailer for a forthcoming documentary from Banks Pappas. The piece tells the forgotten story of the Augusta riots of 1970. In a heated summer of social and political upheaval, just one week after the massacre at Kent State, a 16-year old African-American mentally disabled inmate is killed in the local jail. A march by a group of concerned citizens demanding information goes awry, and all hell breaks loose. Completion, April 2011. Limited private screenings to follow. Tentative widespread release, 2011-2012. Directed by Banks Pappas. Produced by Banks Pappas and Anthony Page. Distribution, TBD

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Banks Pappas
• Augusta Georgia
• Augusta
• Augusta Riot 1970
• Burbank Rose Media
• MLK
• Malcolm X
• Civil Rights
• Kent State
• Lester Maddox
• George Wallace
• JFK
• Kennedy
• John F. Kennedy
• 1960's
• Weather Underground
• Abbie Hoffman

[bankspappas]

@fredericfranc-- As always, I wholeheartedly appreciate your compliments concerning my style and aesthetic. This trailer's edit appears to me in a few weeks of retrospection to be a bit slow... the actual full length piece of the documentary moves much faster. And, you will recognize many elements of my already (hopefully) apparent style, as well as some more new tricks up my sleeve, when the documentary is finished.

[boogiejoe2]

WHEN WILL WE BE ABLE TO SEE THE FULL DOCUMENTARY?

[fredericfranc]

This is a foray by our video artist, in his by now famlliar, to me, anyway, style, into the dimension of retelling the recent history by the artistic means and devices of a music video; and, as usual, hard not to be impressed by the skill and the imagination at work here...