Join the Big Eddy Film Festival for a special outdoor screening of Horace B. Jenkins' Cane River
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts 200 Hurd Rd, Bethel, NY 12720
Saturday, October 2. 7PM
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity—the light- skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area.
This lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades after Jenkins died suddenly following the film’s completion, robbing generations of a talented, vibrant new voice in African American cinema. Available now for the first time in nearly forty years in a brand-new, state-of-the-art 4k restoration.
FEATURE | 1982 (4k Restoration) | | US | 104 MIN
