Netflix has acquired worldwide rights to the Sundance award-winning documentary “Descendant,” by filmmaker Margaret Brown (“The Order of Myths,” “Be Here to Love Me: T…
, President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, will present the Participant feature alongside Netflix.
The film is centered on the Clotilda, the last known ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States, which arrived in Alabama 40 years after African slave trading became a capital offense. The ship was promptly burned and its existence denied, but “after a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of the Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story” in the film.won the U.S.
“We would like to recognize a film which evokes, un-surfaces and reveals, in a profound direction forward,” Nicks said. “A character-driven film in pursuit of historical reconciliation, the award goes to ‘Descendant,’ directed by Margret Brown.”
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