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WORLD Channel’s documentary showcase opens with PBS co-presentation, moves to Thursday nights beginning February 2022 DECEMBER 7, 2021 – BOSTON, MA The award-winning documentary series America ReFramed, a coproduction of
SUMNER – An in-person screening of a film created by high school students from the Mississippi Delta will be held Friday, Aug. 13, at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse here. The screening
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Professional filmmakers Pablo Correa, Kyle Jones and Robert “RJ” Fitzpatrick, who is from Sunflower County, will act as technical advisors to the students. Started in 2018 with students from Sunflower,
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Photography by RJ Fitzpatrick. See Full Article here
Since Chick-fil-A doesn’t have a large presence in the Mississippi Delta, other than the licensee location at Delta State, Reed says Nylander was instrumental in bringing the program to the
By GABRIELA SZYMANOWSKA, Mississippi Clarion Ledger SUMNER, Miss. (AP) — Fannie Lou Hamer stepped onto the national platform in 1964 after giving powerful testimony about racial violence against Black men
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As the producers of the overall multi-pronged project, Fannie Lou Hamer’s America, our mission has always been to preserve the legacy of the Mississippi Delta through the lens of one its
Fannie Lou Hamer stepped onto the national platform in 1964 after giving powerful testimony about racial violence against Black men and women in the South at the Democratic National Convention. Her stirring stories made
Continue reading…Mississippi Delta high schoolers to merge civil rights lessons with filmmaking
Filmmaker/photographer Robert “RJ” Fitzpatrick, Jr. founded Hydro Productions after earning his BFA degree in Digital Media Arts from Delta State in 2017. Since graduation, Fitzpatrick has worked on the documentary
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Fitzpatrick earned a bachelor’s in Digital Media Arts from Delta State University. He is the founder of Hydro Productions Company LLC, a small MS Delta-based production company specializing in photography,