Academy Award®–Contending Series—Silver Dollar Road and Post-Screening Conversation

LACMA members are invited to join FILM at LACMA for a special screening of Silver Dollar Road followed by a conversation with writer, director, and producer Raoul Peck and documentarian Orlando Von Einsiede.

From Academy Award® nominee Raoul Peck, Silver Dollar Road follows the story of the Reels family as told by the matriarch, Mamie Reels Ellison, and her niece Kim Renee Duhon, two fierce and clear-eyed women bending to safeguard valiantly their ancestors’ land and their brothers and uncles Melvin and Licurtis, who were wrongfully imprisoned for eight years—the longest sentence for civil contempt in North Carolina history.  

This documentary, based on the 2019 ProPublica article, highlights the covert ways the legal system has been exploited to keep Black land ownership fragile and the racial wealth gap growing

Watch the official trailer.

You will receive a link to view the film on the event date.

This screening is hosted by Slipstream, a LACMA-approved third-party screening platform. If you have not previously registered with Slipstream, you will be asked to provide a valid email address and set a password to create an account.