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‘Gospel Hill’ in association with Quiet Hand Productions, Future Films, Great British Films, Blue Rider and Deco Entertainment. US Distribution by Twentieth Century Fox
Synopsis
Gospel Hill is about haunted men: the former sheriff of the southern town dealing with past sins, and the former civil rights worker withdrawn since the martyrdom of his father many years before. Their final confrontation comes when a corporation descends on the town, echoing a struggle thirty years old.
In the southern town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood of Gospel Hill, are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar golf course development. Race relations are strained in the town, just as they were thirty years ago when Peter Malcolm (Samuel L Jackson), a black civil rights activist was assassinated. Malcolm's son John (Danny Glover), long withdrawn from the community and from the fight for civil rights, is still haunted by feelings of hatred for the towns bigoted ex-sheriff, Jack Herrod (Tom Bower) who let the investigation of Malcolm's murder dissipate with no one charged. John's estranged wife Sarah (Angela Bassett), takes it upon herself to battle the new development’s main supporter Dr. Palmer (Esposito) an influential community leader ,and reveal his profiteering, exposing him for the greedy man he has become. The sheriff meanwhile, discovering he is terminally ill and dealing with past sins, reinvestigates the Peter Malcolm murder. John Malcolm begins to realize that the fight for equality didn't die with his father but that it continues in every breath the town takes, and he learns that if Sarah continues to stir the hornets nest, he will be thrust into the position he shared with his father thirty years ago.
The characters lives and those of their children intertwine to create a gripping, revealing and dramatic tale touching on issues of race, imminent domain, and the power of the human spirit to overcome the pain and the hatred of division.
Cast & Crew
Danny Glover, Angela Bassett, Julia Stiles, Taylor Kitsch, Nia Long, Tom Bower, Adam Baldwin, RZA, Giancarlo Esposito and Samuel L Jackson
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Official Selection
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Giancarlo Esposito
Jeffery Pratt Gordon, Jeff Stacy and Terrell Tannen
Adam Betteridge, Simon Horsman, Charlotte Koh,
Stephen Margolis,
Cerise Hallam Larkin, Freddy Braidy, Emerson Machtus,
Giancarlo Esposito
David Tumblety
William A Cimino
Tina Pacheco
Scott Bomar
Reel World Film Festival ’09 - Outstanding International Feature
Nashville Film Festival ’09 - Best Director
Nashville Film Festival ’09 - Best African American Film
Sedona Film Festival ’09 - Best Director
Sedona Film Festival ’09 - Best Feature Film
Texas Black Film Festival ’08 - Best Film
Fort Lauderdale Intern’l Film Festival ’08 - Best of Festival Jury Award
Memphis Indie Film Festival ’08 - The Soul of Southern Film Award
Santa Fe Intern’l Film Festival ’08 - Film For Change Producer Award
Hamptons Intern’l Film Festival ’08 - Premiere
DC Film Festival 2008
Woodstock Film Festival 2008
