Southern Spaces has published an interview with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery, the writer and producer of Lumbeeland.
Professor Lowery is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University. Her first book, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity and the Making of a Nation, was the recipient of several book awards. In the interview, Professor Lowery discusses the making of the short fiction film set in modern-day Robeson County, North Carolina. Lumbeeland grapples with the intergenerational experiences of a Lumbee family caught in the web of drug trafficking and the effects of substance misuse. Lowery reflects on the challenges of script writing, the importance of collaboration, the extensive participation of Native people in the project’s creation and production, and the film’s public reception. You can stream Lumbeeland for free at First Nations Experience.
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