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HOMECOMING...Sometimes I am haunted by memories of red dirt and clay
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In 1920 there were nearly one million black farmers in America; in 1999 there were less than 18,000. Traveling to her cousin's farm in rural Georgia, filmmaker Charlene Gilbert investigates the social and political implications of African American land loss in the South. Both a historical examination and an intimate look at one rural family, HOMECOMING documents the tradition and decline of black farming, and explores the bittersweet legacy of the land, a symbol of both struggle and survival.
Co-presentation of NBPC
Premiere: PBS, February 3, 2000 at 10 PM
"Watching this documentary elicits sadness, laughter, thoughtfulness and a feeling of connection. It captures not only the struggle of the Black farmer but urban Black America's remembrance of farm life and the South."
- Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association
"This film tells a distressing story but delivers an uplifting message. We're all in this struggle together, whether displaced Black farmers of downsized white workers"
- Columnist
"A poignant, personal, political and historical mediation. It will teach, inspire and empower us to correct the injustices which continue to plague Black farmers."
- Carnegie Mellon University
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Best Documentary, Prized Pieces International Film and Video Festival, National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)
[1999]
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U.S. International Film and Video Festival, Silver Place Award
[1999]
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Chicago International Television Festival, Finalist, Documentary, Certificate of Merit
[2000]
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