White: A Memoir in Color

Joel Katz

World Premiere! White: A Memoir in Color director Joel Katz and Letters Home director in person at both screenings!

In this personal documentary, Joel Katz (Strange Fruit, NYJFF 2002) explores what it means to be white in America through the story of his own family across generations. His father’s role as a white professor at Howard University, a traditionally black college, during the civil rights era comes to bear on his and his wife’s decisions about race and adoption. Original score by Don Byron.

PRECEDED BY: Letters Home (Melissa Hacker, 2010)

DIRECTOR
Joel Katz
YEAR
2012
COUNTRY
USA
RUNTIME
59 minutes
LANGUAGE
English

World Premiere! White: A Memoir in Color director Joel Katz and Letters Home director in person at both screenings!

In this personal documentary, Joel Katz (Strange Fruit, NYJFF 2002) explores what it means to be white in America through the story of his own family across generations. His father’s role as a white professor at Howard University, a traditionally black college, during the civil rights era comes to bear on his and his wife’s decisions about race and adoption. Original score by Don Byron.

Letters from Home

PRECEDED BY:
Letters Home | Melissa Hacker
USA | 2010 | 9m | English

An elegantly made short based on correspondence from the director’s great-aunt Freda, written as she traveled through Germany and Austria in the American Army Women’s Corps in 1945.

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