Synopsis
Director: Margaret Brown
Producers: Kyle Martin, Essie Chambers, Margaret Brown
108 min, U.S. 2022
In Africatown, Alabama, the truth has been suppressed for over a century. The neighborhood’s residents, who are descendants of the last known and illegal slave ship, the Clotilda, have long sought physical evidence of the sunken vessel as validation of a history that many have tried to bury. In this urgent, captivating film, award-winning director winning Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths, The Great Invisible) charts the discovery of the Clotilda and its impact, all the while exposing the legacy of slavery and oppression, the long search for justice, and one close-knit community’s uplifting fight to take command of their own story. Winner of a Creative Vision Award at Sundance, Descendant is a powerful testament to memory, family, and the racial reckoning continuing to roil America.