This Story Doesn’t Stop: Director Raoul Peck on Silver Dollar Road | Interviews

When did you come into this story? Did you read the story in the New Yorker, or did they reach out to you? How did it all happen? I was approached by both ProPublica, Amazon, and JuVee production, Viola Davis’ company, and they wanted me to executive produce the film. And they know I had many … Read more

Silver Dollar Road movie review (2023)

Inspired by the ProPublica/New Yorker article by Lizzie Presser, Peck parses the historically racist real estate laws of America, the tyrannical wielding of the justice system against Black folk, and the feeling of when the land becomes you and you become bound to the land. “Silver Dollar Road” is a celebration, an elegy, and a profound … Read more