AFTER SHERMAN

By Jon-Sesrie GOFF

CARGO FILM & RELEASING - as SALES World

Social issues - Completed 2022

Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival.

Festivals
& Awards

True/False 2022
Santa Barbara IFF 2022
Best Documentary
Tribeca FF 2022
BFI London FF 2022
Atlanta Film Festival 2022
Best Documentary
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 86 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Jon-Sesrie GOFF
    • Producer(s)
    • Blair DOROSH-WALTHER, Madeleine HUNT-EHRLICH
    • Synopsis
    • Beautifully layered in After Sherman the filmmaker, Jon-Sesrie Goff follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.