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WHEN PORGY CAME HOME
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Reuben Wright as Porgy during a dress rehearsal. | Photo by Charles McKenzie

PORGY AND BESS is one of the most beloved pieces of music ever written. It is also one of the most divisive: both a glittering legacy of the Jazz Age and a haunting reminder of the Jim Crow era.

WHEN PORGY CAME HOME traces the hidden life of this iconic American story, of its Gullah Geechee South Carolina roots and subsequent entanglement in decades of racial tensions, as it was claimed, contested, and ultimately reclaimed by the descendants of the very community it memorialized.

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WHEN PORGY CAME HOME

A Documentary Film by Lauren Waring Douglas

Contact the Filmmakers at info@whenporgycamehome.com

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