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Across the Tracks (2015)
Directed by Michael Cooke
Overview
Tara and Ella Hines are sisters living very different lives. Tara is a big city architect with a fighting spirit that has brought her great success. Ella, a few years younger, never left the hometown of their youth and has been the primary caretaker of the family. Estranged for 40 years, they are brought together finally with the death of their mother. Through a series of flashbacks, their childhood in rural 1960s Georgia unfolds. The “Coloreds only” bathroom and side entrance to shops. The train tracks that separated the town by skin color. We see them navigate this world full of inferiority and bullying, ultimately leading to Ella’s decision to become white. As the sisters lay their mother to rest, the past rises up to meet them and we’re finally shown the moment that tore their family apart.
Length 15 minutes
Actors
E. Roger Mitchell | Nicky Buggs | Don Battee | Eric Oliver | Berkeley Clayborne | Alina Lia | Thursday Farrar | Brynn Crosby | Britney Heard | Reese Houston | Madalin Jones | Shelby Grace Jones | Carla McCullough | Mattilyn Winburn | Andrew Winkler | Austin Winkler