Hale County This Morning, This Evening
The Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening is an intimate glimpse into the Southern Black experience.
About the Documentary
RaMell Ross's Academy Award-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening, one of the year's most critically acclaimed films, is a dreamy and intimate journey through the world of Hale County, Alabama, a richly detailed glimpse into life in America’s Black Belt. Full of sublime moments, the film immerses the viewer in the southern Black American experience in a place where Walker Evans and James Agee once chronicled the lives of poor white sharecropping families in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in the 1930s, but today is an oft-misunderstood African American community. The film is "pure cinematic poetry" wrote A.O. Scott in The New York Times.
The Filmmakers
RaMell Ross
RaMell Ross (Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Sound Recordist, Editor) earned a BA in both English and Sociology from Georgetown University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and his writing has appeared in such outlets as The New York Times. He was part of Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2015, and a New Frontier Artist in Residence at the MIT Media Lab. In 2016, he was a finalist for the Aperture Portfolio Prize, winner of an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant and a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow. In early 2017, he was selected for Rhode Island Foundation’s Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Artist Fellowship. RaMell is currently on faculty at Brown University’s Visual Arts Department. Hale County This Morning, This Evening is his first feature documentary. He met Quincy while teaching a GED program in Greensboro, Alabama, and Daniel while coaching basketball at the local high school.
Awards
Academy Awards
Peabody Awards
International Documentary Association Creative Recognition Award
Learn More About the Documentary
Hale County This Morning, This Evening Wins Peabody Award
RaMell Ross Charts “the Visual Story of Blackness” in Oscar-Nominated Doc
Independent Lens Film “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” Honored with Oscar Nomination
