LOOK AWAY, LOOK AWAY
Produced and Directed by Patrick O’Connor
When the horrific murder of nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015 sparks a national reckoning around the meaning of the Confederate flag, battle lines are drawn in Mississippi to determine the fate of the last state flag to include the most powerful, and divisive, symbol of our fractured history.
In Look Away, Look Away, director Patrick O’Connor introduces us to an array of activists, and captures the fierce five-year battle that lead to the removal of the Mississippi state flag, revealing how race, heritage and long-simmering grievances over the Civil War shapes our sense of who we are as Americans.
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Look Away, Look Away is available on demand on select streaming platforms.
“Beautiful, powerful… Every American should watch Look Away, Look Away…”
WILLIAM FERRIS
The Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities
“Inspiring and sobering”
JOHN COSKI
Author of The Confederate Battle Flag – American’s Most Embattled Emblem
“[A] rare opportunity to understand and perhaps even empathize with those who hold viewpoints that differ from our own.”
MALCOLM GOOD
The Flag Institute
