2021 Official Selection film:
Thomas Espy, Stevie Jefferis, Cassie Harding, and Frank Carroll
Remembering Willie Earle
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More than 70 years ago, Willie Earle was taken from a jail in Pickens, South Carolina, and murdered by a mob.
“Remembering Willie Earle,” a film about SC’s last reported lynching, grew out of Dr. Wertheimer’s seminar Filming Southern History. It is currently part of the Short. Sweet. Film Fest. To see the film, register for the festival for free: https://www.shortsweetfilmfest.com/register/on-demand-basic/
Check out a panel with Dr. John Wertheimer + former students Frank Carroll, Cassie Harding, + Stevie Jefferis, about their film "Remembering Willie Earle," about a 1947 lynching. The film came out of the course Filming Southern History @DavidsonCollege. https://greenvillejournal.com/community/remembering-willie-earle-producers-to-commemorate-74th-anniversary-of-lynching-with-virtual-panel/
The virtual panel will focus on the film’s unique perspective of the events which happened in the Upstate 74 years ago this week. #yeahthatgreenville #communitynews https://greenvillejournal.com/community/remembering-willie-earle-producers-to-commemorate-74th-anniversary-of-lynching-with-virtual-panel/
https://greenvillejournal.com/community/remembering-willie-earle-producers-to-commemorate-74th-anniversary-of-lynching-with-virtual-panel/
