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Southern Lens

Southern Lens is a showcase for independent film from and about the South, culled from film festivals and presented by South Carolina ETV. By turns warm, humorous, compelling, and heart-breaking, each film presents a place and time in Southern culture as seen through the eyes of one filmmaker. Watch films on Thursdays at 9:00 pm. Southern Lens follows ETV's Carolina Stories series.


Southern Lens - This Month


Southern Lens Thu at 9:00 pm on ETV
The Marines of Montford Point

Hosted and narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Louis Gossett, Jr., this documentary profiles the first African-American recruits in the United States Marine Corps, beginning with their experiences at Montford Point Base, a segregated boot camp in the heart of the Jim Crow South. All-black battalions from Montford Point loyally served…

Southern Lens Thu - Feb 16
Bin Yah

ChasDoc Film Society's documentary Bin Yah explores the potential loss of important African-American communities in Mt. Pleasant, SC due to growth and development. Through the testimonies of the residents themselves, the film explores the culture, the history and the importance of land and the…

Southern Lens Thu - Feb 23
The Clinton 12

THE CLINTON 12 captures a pivotal moment in the American civil rights movement. Award-winning actor James Earl Jones narrates the compelling story of the desegregation of the first public high school in the South following the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. the Board of Education decision. On August 27, 1956,…

Southern Lens Thu - Mar 01
The Florestine Collection

One wet Mardi Gras morning in 2001, Columbia, SC native Helen Hill stumbled upon more than 100 handmade dresses on the curb of a New Orleans street. This chance encounter sent her down a path to track down their owner, and launched what would be her last film.  

Tragically, Helen…

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