Oscar Docs 2019: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 20, 2019

Filmmaker RaMell Ross talks about his Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary, "Hale County This Morning, This Evening."

"That's the one thing that’s missing from the mainstream media landscape, which is just normal life. We tend to watch things… and be entertained by things that are devoid of banal joy and consequences of that historically are damning," says filmmaker @ramellross. #OscarDocs2019
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 20, 2019

"Cinema is probably the best medium to carry someone’s consciousness, and to be and to do that in the context of actual life and centralizing Black gays is a quite profound thing. It’s what’s the most absent from the world order… the truth of other perspectives," @ramellross.
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) February 20, 2019

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