After Sherman
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
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After Sherman
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Status
Released
Release Date
Mar 3, 2022
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Documentary
Original Title
After Sherman
Production Companies
Hedera Pictures, Sundance Institute, Black Public Media (BPM), JustFilms / Ford Foundation, American Documentary, Firelight Media, Field of Vision, Tribeca Film Institute, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS
Director
Jon Sesrie Goff
Description
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
