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The first documentary to explore the
storied and complex legacy of Nobel Prize-winner WILLIAM FAULKNER - his life, literary masterpieces and role in
today's conversation on race, civil rights and community in the United States and abroad.
As former President Barack Obama said: "Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried -- it is not even past." In our current time of reckoning on diversity and inclusion, FAULKNER: THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD offers an understanding of our present through Faulkner's personal struggles and literary masterpieces. And special featurettes dive into the life of Faulkner's work around the world.
Narrated by and starring
Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts as Faulkner, THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD immerses the viewer into Faulkner's world, by using contemporary cinematography, archival photographs, newspaper clippings, Faulkner's writings, animations, interviews with the world's leading Faulkner scholars, re-enactments filmed at Rowan Oak and other Faulkner haunts and an original score.
The Past Is Never Dead highlights the evolution of Faulkner's writing and his changing view of race through the stories he wrote and the turbulent times he lived through. He condemned the murder of Emmett Till. He received death threats from people he knew, and he was shunned by his best friends. But he endured and never stopped writing about the human heart in conflict with itself. Faulkner has forever changed the literary landscape.
Official Trailer
Written and Directed by Michael Modak-Truran
Produced by Ana Lampton Triplett, Jeremy Culver & Michael Modak-Truran
Executive Producer Peter Broderick
Executive Producer Anita Modak-Truran
Co-Executive Producers Lee Caplin and Hudson Hickman
Distribution Strategists Peter Broderick & Keith Ochwat
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In July 2024, experts from France, Japan, England, Scotland, Denmark, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, China and South Korea addressed the onging impact of the Faulkner Effect more than 100 years after Faulkner's first publication of Marble Faun.
Faulkner Yoknapatawpha Conference, July 2024
"THIS TRIUMPHANT FILM IS A RICH, DETAILED PORTRAIT FRAMED BY A PENETRATING, ENTERTAINING NARRATIVE."
Jesse Yancy, Mississippi Sideboard
"BLOODY F'ING BRILLIANT"
Retired English Literature Professor, Galway Film Festival
INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY!
Photo is courtesy of CineLibri
Photographer Tihomira Krumova
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