The colossal rockface carving depicting three Confederate leaders – Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson – towers over Stone Mountain Park, on the outskirts of Atlanta. It’s Georgia state’s most popular tourist attraction. Daniel Kaufman’s fascinating film profiles the locals living beneath it: an activist striving to be a voice for the town’s majority Black community; an historian confronting his own legacy; a third generation Klansman who is fuelling renewed division in the region, and a civil rights organiser campaigning for the monument’s destruction. Unfolding over a turbulent five years in the US, including a wave of anti-racist protests that saw the toppling of statues and monuments across the country, this visually arresting documentary reveals a divided community grappling with its troubled legacy and uncertain future.
Content Guidance: Film contains offensive language, racism and discrimination.
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Premiere statusWorld premiere
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Director(s)Daniel Newell Kaufman
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Country(s)USA
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Year2024
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Duration83 mins
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Executive producer(s)Roger Ross Williams / One Story Up, Mark Romanek, Stephen Buchanan
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Producer(s)Krista Worby, Daniel Newell Kaufman
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CinematographyAdam Newport-Berra, Devon Catucci
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EditingArmando Croda, Parallax
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SoundKhari Mateen
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Language(s)English
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