
Q&A with Director Jon-Sesrie Goff moderated by WNYC's Alison Stewart on Jun 2 at 7pm. Q&A with Jon-Sesrie Goff moderated by Marshall Shaffer on Jun 3 at 7pm.
Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.