The Disappearance of Miss Scott

The Hindsight Film Festival is proud to present a FREE screening of The Disappearance of Miss Scott, a PBS American Masters film. Immediately following the film there will be a Q&A with Emmy Award winning director Nicole London and Adam Clayton Powell III, a journalist and the son of Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the first African American to be elected to Congress from New York in 1945.

Synopsis
Jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott was the first Black American to have her own television show. An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her career and was a champion for equality.

Trailer – https://youtu.be/CftO3wya1ug

This event is sponsored by The Better Angels Society (Ken Burns Prize for Film) and CinemaSavannah. For more information contact pat@hindsightfilmfest.com