Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian Horace B. Jenkins, Cane River is a racially-charged love story set in Natchitoches Parish, a “free community of color” in Louisiana, where a forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two Black communities: the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles, and the darker-skinned, more disenfranchised families of the area. This lyrical, visionary film disappeared for decades when Jenkins died suddenly following the film’s completion, robbing generations of a talented, vibrant new voice in African American cinema.

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