A Man of His Time
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2023 NOMINEE - BEST NYC FILM
2021
United States
28 mins
World Premiere
Short Film Competition
| Estelle Parsons | |
| Jeffery Keilholtz, Richard Pamela D'Avino Murphy | |
| Jim DeMarse (Jim Taney), Count Stovall (Walter Scott), Eliott Johnson (Owner) |
Two descendants of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott Decision meet in a cafe off the New Jersey turnpike. Jim Taney, a descendant of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney who penned the opinion, offers an apology from his family to the family of Walter Scott, a descendant of the formerly enslaved Dred Scott. Through a vulnerable conversation about racism in America, Jim awakens to his own ignorance and discovers why an apology alone just won’t cut it. This film is an adaptation of a short play written by Kate Taney Billingsley.
About the Director
Estelle Parsons was last seen on Broadway in THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN, receiving her 5th Tony Award nomination. She is most widely known for her Academy Award-winning performance in BONNIE AND CLYDE. As a director, she created the New York Shakespeare Festival Players for Joseph Papp in the 1980’s and directed Al Pacino in SALOME; THE READING on Broadway. She is a member of the Actors Studio and has received 4 lifetime achievement awards: a Lilly, an Obie, a LaMama award and the Cherry Lane award.
Awards
2022 New York Women in Film and Television/ iWomanTV Online Shorts Festival – 2nd Place Audience Choice Award
