After Sherman

MKE Film Festival

Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to his home state of South Carolina to explore how racial violence has inflicted trauma upon Black residents amid two high-profile Charleston killings which resulted in the deaths of Walter Scott and nine church parishioners. Goff’s lyrical filmmaking style and fluid form of documentary storytelling capture the geography of Charleston's past and present, establishing Gullah cultural retention and land preservation as paths toward attaining individual and collective personal pride.


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Milwaukee Film is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to entertaining, educating, and engaging our community through cinematic experiences. We operate the magnificent Oriental Theatre, a historic cinema palace committed to high-quality and accessible film and education programming. Since 2009, the annual Milwaukee Film Festival has brought together film fans and filmmakers to celebrate the power of cinema. Our education programs and Cultures & Communities platform provide avenues toward making our community a more empathetic and equitable place for everyone to live.

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