DVD & Digital Release: Nov. 6, 2013
Price: DVD $26.95
Studio: Tribeca Film/Cinedigm
The story of the 2012 documentary film Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story begins with an earlier documentary, one that was made in 1965.
In ’65, filmmaker Frank De Felitta made a .Mississippi: A Portrait for NBC News about the changing times in the American South and the tensions of life in the Mississippi Delta during the civil rights struggle.
The film was broadcast in May 1966 and outraged many Southern viewers, in part, because it included an extraordinary scene featuring a local African-American waiter named Booker Wright. Wright, who worked at a local “whites only” restaurant in Greenwood, MS. Wright delivered a stunning, heartfelt and inflammatory monologue exploding the myth about who he was and how he felt about his position serving the local white community. The fallout for Booker Wright was extreme: He lost his job and was beaten and ostracized by those that considered him “one of their own.”
Directed by Frank De Felitta’s son Raymond De Felitta, the unrated Booker’s Place paints a moving and inspiring portrait of Wright’s life as witnessed by his family and friends. In the film, De Felitta travels to Mississippi to uncover the details surrounding Wright’s life and death and the impact his father’s documentary had on the community.
With the help of Wright’s granddaughter, De Felitta gives a behind-the-scenes account of the controversial event through interviews with Wright’s family, friends and elected officials, including former Governor William Winter and Judges Grey Evans and Johnnie E. Walls. Additionally, both De Felitta and his father are interviewed.
The critically acclaimed Booker’s Place: A Mississippi Story enjoyed a limited release to theaters and an online premiere in April, 2012.
Bonus features on the DVD include an interview with director Raymond De Felitta, additional scenes, and the 1962 documentary The Streets of Greenwood.
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