Exec Producer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson 's new doc DESCENDANT Playing At Sundance Film Festival

DESCENDANT

 

Margaret Brown’s layered exploration of the fate of the last known slave ship the Clotilda and its echoes in the present,

Executive Produced by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

 

WORLD PREMIERE

U.S. Documentary Competition

 

Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States, arrived in Alabama 40 years after African slave trading became a capital offense. It was promptly burned, and its existence denied. After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story.

 “I have a personal connection to these events through my family history, but what happened in 1860 and the reverberating effects on the community of Africatown is part of our collective history,” said Thompson. “I am hopeful that this film can be a starting point for some important conversations about the past.” - Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

 

Directed By: Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths, The Great Invisible)

Produced By: Essie Chambers, Kyle Martin (Cryptozoo, Tiny Furniture)

Executive Produced By: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Tariq “Black Thought” Trotter, Shawn Gee, Zarah Zolman, Kate Hurwitz

U.S. Sales: Cinetic Media

TRT: 109 min