Special Program
YIDFF 2025 Opening Film
Panola
- 1970 / B&W / Digital File (Original: 16mm) / 21 min
Directors: Ed Pincus, David Neuman
Source: Harvard Film Archive; courtesy of the Ed Pincus Film Collection, Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
A casualty of the South’s racial violence— Panola. This film captured a certain truth about the Civil Rights movement for the filmmakers. They also discovered that Panola’s performances for the camera revealed the fictions always lurking within Direct Cinema.