Bevel's Last Sermon
(director, editor and producer,
2010 - 26 minutes)
As
Dr. Martin Luther King's collaborator, Reverend James Bevel was a key
strategist of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. His later career was
marked by controversy and an incest conviction. This documentary is a
candid interview with Rev. Bevel 10 days before he died.
"Jim
Bevel was Martin Luther King's most influential aide," said civil
rights historian David J. Garrow. He cited Rev. Bevel's "decisive
influence" on the Birmingham "children's crusade" of 1963 that helped
revive the movement, the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery in
1965 and King's increased outspokenness against the Vietnam War. - from
his obituary in The Washington Post, 12/20/08
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First
public screening at the 2010 Jubilee Film Festival, part of the Jubilee
Bridge Crossing Festival. This annual event draws over 30,000 people to
Selma, AL to reenact and celebrate the pivotal moment in civil rights
history that Rev. Bevel was a driving force behind.
It also screened at festivals in Berlin, South Africa, Atlanta, Florida, and in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
director of photography - Sanghoon Lee
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