The Neutral Ground

1001 South Tamiami Trail,Sarasota FL 34236

23 March, 2022

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Join us for a film screening of The Neutral Ground with the filmmaker CJ Hunt, from 5:30 pm to 7 pm, with Q+A session 7pm - 7:30pm. Join us for a film screening of The Neutral Ground with the filmmaker CJ Hunt. The film will be shown from 5:30 pm to 7 pm, with Q+A session with CJ Hunt from 7 pm - 7:30 pm. The Neutral Ground documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments and America’s troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council’s vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal is halted by death threats, CJ sets out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America. This program is in partnership with the Sarasota African American Cultural Coalition and Sarasota Community Radio 96.5FM WSLR + Fogartyville. Filmmaker Bio: A comedian and filmmaker living in NYC, CJ Hunt (Director) is currently a field producer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He has also served as a staff writer for A&E's Black and White, and a field producer for BET's The Rundown with Robin Thede. Before working on late-night television, CJ spent nine years living in New Orleans where - in 2015 - he began filming what he thought would be a quick and easy confederate monument removal. CJ is an alumnus of Firelight Media's Doc Lab and New Orleans Film Festival's Emerging Voices program. He is also a 2020 New America Fellow and a regular host of The Moth. A graduate from Brown University's Africana Studies department, CJ is endlessly fascinated by race and comedy's ability to say what we can't. The Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art + Design is a catalyst for appreciation and understanding of the art of our time. As a platform for education, exposure and experimentation, the Museum inspires new ideas and new ways of being through an endless rotation of transformative, relevant, and pioneering exhibitions and programs designed to elevate and empower all by cultivating discerning visual thinkers and ethical citizens.