Episode 705: Always in Season / Flannery

As our seventh season enters its final third, Bart and Chris join guest host Sonali Gulati, a filmmaker and faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University, for a review of Jacqueline Olive’s searing look back at America’s violent history of lynching, Always in Season. Then, Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman, co-director of Flannery, a documentary about the late, great southern writer Flannery O’Connor, which was just awarded the inaugural Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. Inspiring artists deserve inspiring discussions, and that’s what we bring to the podcast. Enjoy! Group Review Documentary: ALWAYS IN SEASON (Jacqueline Olive, 2019) In theaters and film festivals now Film Featured in Interview Portion: FLANNERY (Elizabeth Coffman/Mark Bosco, 2019) Currently playing in festivals Other Films and Sites Mentioned: Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (Pamela B. Green, 2019) Diary of a Harlem Family (Gordon Parks, 1968) Equal Justice Initiative Gordon Parks exhibit at the Amon Carter Museum I Am (Sonali Gulati, 2011) Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton, 2019) National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Shaft (Gordon Parks, 1971) True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality (George Kunhardt/Peter W. Kunhardt/Teddy Kunhardt, 2019) The World of Piri Thomas (Gordon Parks, 1968)   Link to review by Christopher Llewellyn Reed: Film Festival Today review of Always in Season   Timestamps: 00:38 – Intro 05:02 – Group Discussion of ALWAYS IN SEASON 20:14 – Bart interviews Elizabeth Coffman of FLANNERY 38:01 – Doc Talk Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com [email protected] Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst) Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed