—For Home Use Only—

A film by Sandra Jaffe

OUR MOCKINGBIRD uses Harper Lee's 1960 novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a lens to view race, class, gender and justice — both then and now. Woven through the film is the story of two extraordinarily different high schools in Birmingham, Alabama — one black, one white — who collaborate on a remarkable stage production adapted from Lee’s esteemed novel.

In addition to this unique collaboration, we hear the voices of political leaders (Congressman John Lewis, former Attorney General Eric Holder), journalists (Katie Couric, Rick Bragg), actors (Mary Badham "Scout", Phillip Alford "Jem" in the 1962 movie), writers (Diane McWhorter, Rick Bragg), scholars (Charles Ogletree, Wayne Flynt, Cynthia E. Jones, Marshall Ganz), lawyers (Doug Jones, Reginald Lindsay, Richard Jaffe) and activists (Bryan Stephenson, Rev. Joseph Lowery, Morris Dees) mingled with those of the students and teachers involved in the stage production.

Together, these diverse voices reveal that as a country we have made progress but are still struggling with the issues of race, class and justice addressed in Lee’s novel.

Presented by Bullfrog Films
Directed by Sandy Jaffe
Editor: Bernice Schneider
Composer: John Kusiak
Cinematography: Steward Jones
Consulting Producer: Sam Pollard

Educational use: www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/omock.html
Academic streaming: http://www.docuseek2.com/bf-omock