100 Years From Mississippi

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

100 Years From Mississippi

Tarabu Betserai Kirkland (Dir), 60 minutes, USA, WNY Premiere

Director Tarabu Betserai Kirkland in attendance.

WNY Spotlight

BIFF 2021 Audience Award Winner

Fleeing Ellisville, Mississippi in 1915 as her father escaped a lynch mob, Mamie Lang Kirkland resettles and eventually raises her family in Buffalo. In this illuminating oral history directed by her son Tarabu Betserai Kirkland, Mrs Kirkland looks back on a life well lived in the shadow of America’s legacy of racial violence.