AfroFutures: Black Women and Cinematic Storytelling
A lyrical, decades-spanning exploration across a woman's life from award-winning poet, photographer, and filmmaker Raven Jackson.
A striking cinematic vision that weaves through time and space, the film follows Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi, as she experiences the joy, grief, love, and pain that defines the journey from childhood to adulthood. Expertly leveraging the sensation of touch in a way uncommon—and incredibly difficult—in cinema, Jackson creates an ethereal and deeply felt world that is simultaneously unfamiliar and yet instantly recognizable. Co-produced by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of 2023 by the National Board of Review. [92 min; drama; English]
Presented in partnership with the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, The Media School, The Center for Documentary Research and Practice, and the Black Film Center & Archive, and generously supported by the Black Philanthropy Circle and the Women's Philanthropy Leadership Council.
"When all the echoes which Jackson delicately explores come into harmony, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt strikes a resonant chord that will be heard for time eternal." — Chase Hutchinson, Collider
"Stunning, thought-provoking, and poignant, with each frame lovingly executed." — Maw Abdulbaki, Screen Rant
"The kind of evocative, impressionistic storytelling one might find in, say, films by Terrence Malick or Andrei Tarkovsky. It is a minimalist, observational masterpiece." — G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
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