Screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power + Q&A with Director Sam Pollard
Streaming Media
Document Type
Video
Publication Date
3-19-2025
Abstract
This spring, Sam Pollard is one of the Center’s visiting documentarians. Pollard is a feature film and television video editor and documentary producer-director. In December 2022, the streaming service Peacock began featuring Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power, a film Pollard co-directed with filmmaker Geeta Gandbhir. Through first-person accounts and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not only for voting rights but also for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama. In the fall of 2023, HBO premiered South to Black Power, which Pollard co-directed with Llewellyn M. Smith. The documentary film stars New York Times columnist Charles Blow and was inspired by his book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. This Visiting Documentarian Series is made possible in part by the Berkley Hudson Visiting Documentarian Fund.
Relational Format
video recording
Recommended Citation
Pollard, Sam, "Screening of Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power + Q&A with Director Sam Pollard" (2025). SouthTalks. 72.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/southtalks/72
