Tuesday, July 13, 2021

SEE: VIRTUAL MAYSLES CINEMA

July 9th to July 22nd, A Crime on the Bayou,  $12 virtual screenings courtesy Maysles Cinema.   It's 1966 in Plaquemines Parish, a swampy strip of land south of New Orleans. A young Black fisherman, Gary Duncan, tries to break up a fight between white and Black teenagers outside a newly integrated school. He gently lays his hand on a white boy’s arm and the boy recoils like a snake. That night, police arrested 19-year-old Gary Duncan for assault on a minor.  More details on virutual streaming at the Maysles Cinema site: LINK

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