Welcome to Independent Lens.
I'm Pete Schwaba, host of Wisconsin Public Television's
Director's Cut.
Tonight, we follow the lives
of Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant,
two black men living in rural Alabama,
over the course of five years
in the documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening .
In the film, Collins attends college, looking for opportunity,
while Bryant becomes a father.
The story follows their lives
from mundane to the monumental life moments.
At the same time,
giving the viewer a look into the Historic South
and the beauty life can bring,
as well as the consequences affected
by the social construction of race.
Hale County is director RaMell Ross'
documentary feature directorial debut.
Ross employs the integrity of non-fiction filmmaking
with the backdrop of southern imagery
to tell the story of his two protagonists.
One of the film's executive producers
is actor-producer Danny Glover who has produced
a long list of films with social justice themes.
The New York Times called this film,
"a quietly radical challenge to
the assumptions about race, class,
and the aesthetics of filmmaking:"
Hale County This Morning, This Evening starts now
on Wisconsin Public Television,
your home for independent film.