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Interview with Margaret Brown

Evolving thinking

Highlights:

Mobile, Alabama is home to America’s oldest Mardi Gras celebration. But the elaborate parades and vibrant pageantry have always been segregated along racial lines. With THE ORDER OF MYTHS, Mobile native Margaret Brown escorts us through the distinctions and similarities of the parallel black and white realms of this time-honored ritual. As stories of a lynching and other accounts of Mobile’s racial divide are introduced, Brown also illustrates examples of recent racial integration, and allows viewers to draw their own conclusions about social order and progress.

Transcript:

Director Margaret Brown made her directorial debut with Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt, which was released theatrically worldwide. She produced Six Miles of Eight Feet, which won a Student Academy Award in 2000, and was the cinematographer for Ice Fishing, which received an honorable mention for short filmmaking at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival and earned her the Nestor Almendros Award for cinematography from NYU’s graduate film program, where she received her MFA. She has also produced Mi Amigo, a narrative western about singing cowboys.

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