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WHITE WASH Documentary Movie Screening and Q&A
| Location: | California, United States |
| Workshop Date: | 2012-03-04 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2012-02-25 |
| Announcement ID: |
192646 |
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The SCA Alumni Screening Series and Virgil Films & Entertainment invite you and a guest to a special screening of White Wash. Film director Ted Woods explores the complexity of race in America through the eyes of the ocean via the history of African Americans and water culture from slavery, civil rights wade-ins to surfing in contemporary times. In examining the history of world water culture, and the history of black identity as it triumphs and evolves in the minds of black surfers, we learn about the power of transcending race as a constructive phenomenon. The film delves into how this subject has been interpreted and how the collective American cultural memory has included or not included these stories in the national discourse. Contemporary interviews filmed with professional and vocational surfers and scholars are woven together with historical archival film footage. Angelenos Rick Blocker, Founder of Blacksurfing.com, and Alison Rose Jefferson, a USC Master of Historic Preservation degree holder and current Public History/American History doctoral grad student are interviewed in the film. The story is narrated by Grammy Award winner Ben Harper, along with Tariq “Blackthought” Trotter of the Grammy Award winning hip hop group, The Roots who also provide the film’s musical score.
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