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CANE RIVER

Directed by Horace Jenkins • 1982 • 104 min • United States

Written, produced, and directed by the late, trailblazing director Horace B. Jenkins and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a "free community of color" in Louisiana.

It’s there that a forbidden romance between an aspiring writer (Richard Romain) and an ambitious, college-bound woman (Tommye Myrick) lays bare the tensions between two Black communities: both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity--the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area. 

Featuring lyrical cinematography and strikingly naturalistic performances from its captivating leads, the long-lost CANE RIVER reemerges thanks to a brand new, state-of-the-art restoration by Indie Collect and Oscilloscope Laboratories.