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90 min.
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Canada
Directed by Paul Saltzman, produced by Paul Saltzman, Patricia Aquino, Thabi Moyo, Paul Hay
Ontario, Canada (Shot in Charleston, Mississippi)
In 1997, Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, who lives in Charleston, Mississippi, offered to fund the first-ever integrated senior Prom in the history of Charleston's one high school. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Morgan offered again, and the East Tallahatchie County school board accepted. In this town of 2,100 people, its high school of 415 black and white students always had separate proms: one black, one white. "Prom Night" follows the Charleston High senior class of 2008 preparing and attending their historic integrated prom in the context of the strong emotions, traditions and conflict inherent in race relations in the community and the Deep South. The tension builds as some of the parents decide to maintain the whites-only prom. With a live performance by Kamikaze and featuring music by Rhonda Richmond.
Sundance Film Festival 2009; Audience Award winner, Oxford Film Festival.
Thabi Moyo, local crew and participants, and Charleston High School 2008 seniors will be in attendance.
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