Free screening of 'The Disappearance of Miss Scott'
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The Hindsight Film Festival presents a free screening of The Disappearance of Miss Scott, a PBS American Masters film. The film tells the story of Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have her own television show. Scott was also an early civil rights pioneer who faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality.
Immediately following the film there will be a Q&A with Emmy Award winning director Nicole London and Adam Clayton Powell III, a journalist and the son of Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York in 1945.
This event is co-sponsored by The Better Angels Society (Ken Burns Prize for Film) and CinemaSavannah.
For more information, click here.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
USA Today
an hour ago
- USA Today
Emmy Award-winning actress on mission to show family caregivers they aren't alone
Emmy Award-winning actress on mission to show family caregivers they aren't alone Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba narrates the PBS documentary "Caregiving," which premieres June 24 at 9 p.m. EST. Show Caption Hide Caption Hulu's 'The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat' tracks three best pals Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan and Uzo Aduba star as a trio of best friends in the Hulu drama "The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat." Emmy Award-winning actress Uzo Aduba cared for her mom, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019, for 495 days. But for a while, Aduba never considered herself a caregiver. 'One day our mother was fine, and then one day she wasn't," Aduba told USA TODAY. "So in the middle of 'wasn't,' you're just trying to figure out how to assemble the pieces to keep life as quote-unquote 'normal' as possible.' More: The caregiving crisis is real. USA TODAY wants to hear from you about how to solve it. Aduba said she always associated the term "caregiver" with medical staff. Now, she knows there are millions of caregivers across the country with no medical training, who − like her − were thrust into caregiving roles without warning once their loved one got sick. 'I didn't realize that there was this whole framework, frankly, of loved ones who were serving in this sort of invisible labor, all across the country, day in, day out, in varying ways, as caregivers to people," she said. Now, she wants other family caregivers to know they aren't alone. Aduba, known for her roles in the television series "Orange Is the New Black" and "The Residence," narrates the PBS documentary "Caregiving," which premieres June 24 at 9 p.m. EST. The film was created with executive producer and Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper and features caregivers from across the country. 'It was the reading of the stories, of the history of it, the families, the individuals involved in caregiving, the advocates for it that drew me to it because I saw a lot of myself in the portraiture," Aduba said of the film. "I belong to the caregiving community." The need for care is universal, said Ai-jen Poo, executive director and board secretary for Caring Across Generations. She hopes having celebrities like Aduba and Cooper speak out about their caregiving experience will help people see how caregiving connects us all. More: A caregiver dad, Bradley Cooper and how a national crisis inspired an unexpected film 'It is a reminder that every single one of us is touched by the need for care,' she said. 'As I write this, my mother is dying.' Uzo Aduba shares caregiving story in memoir released last year Aduba shared some of her caregiving experience in her book, "The Road is Good," which was released in September 2024. The sweeping memoir tells her story of growing up in a Nigerian immigrant family in Massachusetts. But Aduba's life story, as she notes in the book, is also the story of her relationship with her mother. There's no way to separate the two narratives. She starts the book with: "As I write this, my mother is dying." Aduba wrote of the range of emotions that came once her mother was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer: fear, anxiety, frustration and grief. She wrote of the the ups and downs of those 495 days, which collided with the COVID-19 pandemic, her engagement, and wedding. She also wrote of the duller moments of care that other family caregivers can relate to. "We took naps and watched whatever we could find on TV. We ordered takeout from the fancy steakhouse in town. We waited, stared at our phones, and took turns curling up with our mother in the hospital bed," she wrote in the book. Aduba said she and her sisters took shifts in caring for their mother. Later, when her mother went into hospice, Aduba described the hospice nurse as an angel. In her culture, Aduba explained, caregiving is "the greatest show of love." Aduba's time with her mother was priceless: 'I would do it again.' Another caregiver featured in the documentary, Matthew Cauli, is outspoken on social media about how difficult it is for caregivers to access resources. "I had to quit my job to go into poverty in order to get on Medicaid so that my wife could get some treatment," Cauli, who cares for his sick wife and young son, said in a recent social media post. "I've been in poverty for five years, credit card debt for five years. And I am stuck, I'm stuck, I'm stuck." In working on the film, Aduba said she learned a lot about how massive the caregiving crisis is. When she was a caregiver for her mom, she said, she didn't realize that resources were out there at all. 'We had no knowledge that that even existed, you know?' Aduba said. More: Chronic illness can be hard on marriage. Studies show it's worse when the wife is sick. There are a lot of family caregivers out there who don't know where to get resources, or that help exists, or about the policies advocates are trying to enact to bring more relief to caregivers. Aduba said the film does a great job at shining a light on the history of caregiving and advocacy work happening now to make things better. Aduba and her sisters didn't have time to think about anything else while they were caring for their mother, Aduba told USA TODAY. When you care for someone, she said, "your needs are second" to the patient. Her own health needs took a back seat during that time, her sleep schedule turned upside down and her free time ceased to exist. 'I would do it again," she said. "But I also know that I'm speaking from a place of immense privilege and not everybody... there are other people who are carrying way more than I on their day to day while also having to navigate caregiving at the same time.' Madeline Mitchell's role covering women and the caregiving economy at USA TODAY is supported by a partnership with Pivotal Ventures and Journalism Funding Partners. Funders do not provide editorial input. Reach Madeline at memitchell@ and @maddiemitch_ on X.
Boston Globe
5 hours ago
- Boston Globe
Five Tony nominees and winners available to stream this weekend
2025 Tony nominees available to stream George Clooney in "Good Night, and Good Luck." EMILIO MADRID 'Good Night, and Good Luck' The clock is ticking on George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' the stage adaptation of his 2005 film about famed journalist Edward R. Murrow, which ends its Broadway run on Sunday mere hours ahead of the Tonys. Before the curtains close, Streams live Saturday at 7 p.m. on CNN and Max Advertisement 'Yellow Face' As part of the long-running 'Great Performances' series, theater fans can watch the Tony-nominated comedy 'Yellow Face' Available on PBS Advertisement Past Tony winners available to stream Lin-Manuel Miranda as Alexander Hamilton and Phillipa Soo as Eliza Hamilton in "Hamilton," the filmed version of the original Broadway production. Courtesy of Disney Plus 'Hamilton' Winner of 11 Tonys in 2016, including best musical, best original score, and best actor in a musical for Leslie Odom Jr., Available on Disney+ 'Girl from the North Country' The musical Available on PBS 'Come From Away' Another Tony-winning musical available to watch is the hit Broadway production Available on Apple TV+ Advertisement Matt Juul is the assistant digital editor for the Living Arts team at the Boston Globe, with over a decade of experience covering arts and entertainment. Matt Juul can be reached at
Hypebeast
6 hours ago
- Hypebeast
Terror Touches Down on 'Alien: Earth' Official Trailer
Summary Get ready for a new chapter of terror, as the Xenomorph finally comes to released the highly anticipated official trailer forAlien: Earth, the new sci-fi horror series that marks the first time the iconic franchise brings its terrifying creatures to our home planet. The series, created by Emmy winner Noah Hawley and executive produced byRidley Scott, is a prequel set in the year 2120, two years before the events of the original Alien film. The plot kicks off when the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth. Its arrival unleashes mysterious, predatory life forms – including the infamous Xenomorph – onto a planet already grappling with a 'Corporate Era' dominated by five mega-corporations and the rise of advanced synthetics and 'hybrids.' The trailer introduces Sydney Chandler as Wendy, a 'hybrid' (a humanoid robot infused with human consciousness) and the first prototype from Prodigy Corporation, who finds herself face-to-face with humanity's greatest threat. The footage is packed with chilling visuals, hinting at claustrophobic ship hallways, intense encounters with various alien life forms (with one character ominously stating the ship 'collected five different life forms from the darkest corners of the universe,' and one being 'predatory,' suggesting even a Predator could appear), and the terrifying realization that the 'perfect organism' has arrived on Earth. The cast also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, and Samuel Blenkin, among Earthis the firs time Scott's franchise hits the small screens. Alien: Earthwill premiere with its first two episodes on August 12, 2025, at 8 PM on FX, with new episodes following weekly. It will also be available to stream on Hulu in the US and Disney+ internationally.
