Friday, March 14, 2025
10:30 am – 1 pm EDT
Scheuer Auditorium

The Neutral Ground (2021)
90 minutes
For grades 9 — 12
Screening and Q&A Zyahna Bryant, student activist and community organizer

In 2015, director CJ Hunt went to New Orleans to document the City Council’s vote to remove four Confederate monuments. When death threats halted that removal, CJ set out to understand why images of the Confederacy still have so much visibility and are such powerful symbols in America. Through a mixture of investigative journalism and disarming humor, Hunt unravels America’s troubled romance with the "Lost Cause," a romanticized and distorted interpretation of the war that ex-Confederates inserted into textbooks, films, and the popular imagination. Directed by CJ Hunt.

Content Warning: This film explores white supremacy in the past and present including visual representations and discussions of slavery, lynching, and racially motivated police violence. This film contains explicit language.

To register, please call 212.423.3254 or email moviesthatmatter@thejm.org.