Working on the PBS documentary series Independent Lens for three seasons, Jackie Olive has worked immersive media production prior to moving into her docu feature debut. Always in Season has received artist grants from the Tribeca Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Picture, Independent Television Service, International Documentary Association, Firelight Media, Catapult Film Fund and Sundance Institutes’ Documentary Fund Grants, Documentary Edit & Story Lab, and the Film Music and Sound Design Lab, it appears this is prepped for a 2019 festival premiere.
Gist: When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.
Production Co./Producers: Jessica Devaney (Speed Sisters) and Jacqueline Olive.
Prediction: U.S. Documentary Competition.
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic). TBD (international)
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