‘Descendant’ Trailer: Margaret Brown’s New Doc Screens At NYFF On October 1, Hits Netflix On October 21
theplaylist.netMargaret Brown entranced audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with “Descendant,” her documentary about the historic discovery of a lost slave ship in 2019.
The movie made such a splash at Sundance that it won a Special Jury Prize. Now, it gets another screening at the New York Film Festival before it premieres exclusively on Netflix.
READ MORE: ‘Descendant’ Review: Stunning Documentary Presents A Layered History Of The Clotilda Slave Ship And Africatown [Sundance] Here’s the film’s official synopsis, courtesy of Netflix: Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown (“The Order of Myths,” “The Great Invisible“) returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama to document the search for and historic discovery of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States, illegally carrying enslaved Africans.
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