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Filmmaker Jon Alston on His Timely Short Feature ‘Augustus’
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“We’re dealing with slavery and slave content. How are we approaching this material and what’s the unique way of doing that?” “Augustus” filmmaker Jon Alston asked when making his documentary short feature which is gaining awards chatter and hoping to make the shortlist.Alston’s short tracks a slave’s fight as he stands up for his rights just before the Civil War, and seeing slavery evolve into today’s racial injustices and inequality.It was a wild time.
