This Friday, June 6, a film documenting the life of jazz virtuoso and civil rights pioneer Hazel Scott will be screened in Savannah.
It also marks the debut of a new film festival making its way to the Hostess City next year.
Patrick Longstreth is the director of Hindsight Film Fest.
He sat down with ‘s Kim Gusby in today’s Community Corner to talk about the project an its purpose.

Click the arrow in the video box above to watch the interview.

Many people may be familiar with Longstreth’s work. He is the director of “The Day that Shook Georgia”, a documentary that tells the story of one of the worst industrial tragedies in US history.

The Hindsight Film Festival will present a free screening of ‘The Disappearance of Miss Scott’, a PBS American Masters film. The film tells the story of Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have her own television show. Scott was also an early civil rights pioneer who faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality.

Immediately following the film there will be a Q&A with Emmy Award winning director Nicole London and Adam Clayton Powell III, a journalist and the son of Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York in 1945.

The event is co-sponsored by The Better Angels Society (Ken Burns Prize for Film) and CinemaSavannah.

“The Disappearance of Miss Scott”
Friday, June 6
7 pm, Doors open at 6
Otis S. Johnson Cultural Center
FREE!