Samantha Knowles’ classy Tribeca Film Festival 2020 gem opens with broadcast clips of national headline news stories reporting indignities that racist, bigoted and just-damn-ignorant-white “craca” rednecks and their sympathizers and traditions inflict on black people because of their hair.<\/p>\n
The OMG opening, like the best of a 5Ws&H summary news leads, hits in the gut as it sets the stage and tone about about the only black woman in the Kentucky state legislature fighting to pass a law to stop a vicious system of discrimination penalizing black youth and men and women in Kentucky for their hair. Her name is Attica Scott and her legislative target is to end an element of a racist supremacist system that wants to cut blacks to the bone of their existence.<\/p>\n
TANGLED ROOTS is listed as a 12-minute short but running time is just short of 20 minutes, and it is so well done that viewers should expect that satisfying visceral oomph that comes with watching a full-fledged award-winning documentary. It follows state legislator Scott through all her pacing as she deals with legislators, constituents \u2013 hers and other voters \u2013 to get her bill passed.<\/p>\n
[Is this short a precursor for a big project-in-the-works-TANGLED-ROOTS by Director Knowles? Filmmakers do that: Sometimes use what looks like to the un-savvy<\/em> as a mini-project but has the soul and prowess of a bigger project under consideration if not in the works.]<\/p>\n Kentucky State Legislator Scott, a community activist before she beat out a 34-year incumbent in a a three-way race, talking in a black church to drum up support for her bill. That church was just one of many places she visited as she was beating the bushes for support of a bill.<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Attica-Lobbying-at-Church1.jpeg\")
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