I am tired of Hollywood's depiction of people of color. The player, slave narrative, ghetto drama, the black jokester, the kid/family redemption story or the black heist is Hollywood's bread and butter. Hollywood has reinforced the slave narrative and the black victim story for decades. After writing Finding Octave a true story that turns the common Hollywood narrative on its head I am doing something to blunt this non-sense and that I can control. I am working with my filmmaking partner Doug Harris on a documentary called the Reconnect: The Untold History of Jazz. It is a true story about the actual formation of jazz in the only place it could have formed: New Orleans. But it is more it identifies for the first time New Orleans as the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement. It shows how jazz and jazz musicians used jazz and musical performances to fund and support the civil rights movement long before most people realize the movement started. It answers questions about jazz and the civil rights movement that have never been exposed. Enjoy and if you like what we are doing share the video and donate to get this project completed.
VIDEO LINK : https://fb.watch/tsZBuXRaMc/
GoFundMe LINK: https://bit.ly/reconnectjazz
