The film, which Peoples also wrote, is among other things a love letter to the Historic Southside, capturing its strong sense of community and the traditions that get passed down from generation to generation. The film often has a documentary-like feel, which is part of the authentic and “lived-in quality” Peoples strived to create. She said she wanted to portray this community with dignity, and to make a movie residents can watch and feel “proud to see themselves.”. Miss Juneteenth. All content © 2004-2020 ScreenAnarchy LLC. In the movie Miss Juneteenth Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. 12. The bar is transformed into Wayman’s BBQ in the movie, where Turquoise works full-time and relies on her tips.
“They’ve been staunch advocates for the film.”.
In “Miss Juneteenth,” the character of Turquoise hasn’t gotten as far in her life as other people had imagined when she was crowned beauty queen.
A camera on the moving vehicle captures the blocks of small businesses, old homes and overgrown lawns that should be familiar to neighborhood residents. Theater founder Jimmy Sweeney said in a Facebook message: “We’re thankful for Channing’s voice and the story her film is bringing to light and we’re excited that the Fort Worth community can experience it on the big screen.”, Visit the Fort Worth Star-Telegram at www.star-telegram.com.
That’s in homage to the real bar that’s “part of the fabric of the community on the Southside,” Peoples said. The people who populate the close-knit neighborhood of the movie are a mix of local residents and actors from elsewhere, she said. Miss Juneteenth came out on VOD—which means video on demand—on Friday, aka today, aka Juneteenth. $9.99 $5.99 Buy HD. Connect with friends faster than ever with the new Facebook app. Debut director Channing Godfrey Peoples was raised attending Miss Juneteenth pageants, which celebrate the US holiday marking the emancipation of slaves, and, accordingly, she takes a different tack. “When I grew up, it was just the Southside,” she said. Sign up for one of our many newsletters to be the first to know when big news breaks. There’s also a cameo appearance in the film from Opal Lee, the 90-year-old lifelong Fort Worth activist. In the movie Miss Juneteenth Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. 2020 99 minutes. Now On Demand: Nicole Beharie Leads MISS JUNETEENTH. Watch the trailer below. Collapse. Streaming on Video on Demand. With exquisitely good timing, the film is available today on various On Demand and Digital platforms. With present-day injustice and historical pain as a backdrop, the context carries real weight, despite a fairly predictable plot. Turquoise is also a bona fide beauty queen—she was once crowned Miss Juneteenth, a title commemorating the day slaves in Texas were freed – two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. July 17, 2020 by Amanda Prahl. $3.99 Rent. “I remember them being so beautiful and so talented and so intelligent,” she said, “but the thing that was most impactful for me was the hope on their face.”, The whole week of Miss Juneteenth was pure excitement for a kid, with blues concerts, barbecues and a parade where thousands would line the streets, Peoples said. She conveyed compelling authenticity with her every scene, always suggesting greater depths to her character than might be immediately apparent. She had never seen so many strong young women “who looked like me,” Peoples said over the phone on Thursday. The truck winds through the Historic Southside, the faraway downtown Fort Worth skyline visible through the trees. Turquoise Jones is a single mom who holds down a household, a rebellious teenager, and pretty much everything that goes down at Wayman’s BBQ & Lounge. Peoples is more focused on people paying attention to Black voices, in cinema and media but also activism. She intended to show this specific part of Texas and America as it was at the time, aware that gentrification has led to new stores replacing longtime Black-owned businesses. Locations throughout the movie are real fixtures of Fort Worth’s Southside and Como neighborhoods, from Corinth Baptist Church, to Baker Funeral Home, to Lloyd’s Cafe on East Rosedale Street.
“The folks who are on the ground in the community creating lasting political change,” she said.
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