Two Towns of Jasper

Two Towns of Jasper (2002)

January 13th, 20021h 30min

Documentary
70%

Overview

Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black camera crew filming black residents), TWO TOWNS OF JASPER captures very different racial views by townsfolk in Jasper, Texas, the location for a racially motivated murder of an African American man in 1998.


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