Hot Docs 2009 Festival Guide

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Prom Night in Mississippi

Dir(s): Paul Saltzman

Program: World Showcase

Run Time: 90 | Canada  | Language: English 

"They have separate proms and they have separate Homecoming Queens, one white and one black. I said, 'how stupid can that be'." - Morgan Freeman

Going to classes together is one thing. Dancing together is quite another. It took 16 years for Morgan Freeman's hometown to allow black students into its whites-only high school after desegregation. That was 1970. The Academy Award-winning actor offered to foot the bill for the school's first racially integrated senior prom in 1997. It was finally accepted in 2008. As girls try on ball gowns and get the latest sophisto hairdos, guys preen in their first tuxedos, book limos, and arrange dates. Paul Saltzman intercuts this lively footage with interviews of students, teachers, and parents to reveal the everyday prejudices and tensions underlying the excitement. But as the pure joy, hot music, and radiant glamour of this prom clearly show, race relations in Charleston, Mississippi will never be the same again. Lynne Fernie.

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Credits

Director(s) : Paul Saltzman

Producer(s) : Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman

Cinematographer(s) : Don Warren, Paul Kolycius, Paul Saltzman

Editor(s) : Kevin Schjerning, Stephen Philipson, David Ransley

Composers(s) : Jack Lenz, Asher Lenz

Subjects

Prom Night in Mississippi deals with the following subjects: Racism & Intolerance, Youth

Screenings

Prom Night in Mississippi will be presented at the following times and locations.

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6:30 pm Thu, May 7

Bloor Cinema

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1:30 pm Sun, May 10

The Royal Cinema

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