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  • The Making of Taylor Square

    Thursday, December 11th
    6pm doors | 7pm screening
    Savannah Cultural Arts Center
    $10 at door or in advance

    Hindsight Film Festival is proud to present this half-hour documentary by local director Caroline Josey Karoki and producer Abbey Hoekzema, who dutifully captured the ups and downs of this story as it unfolded. Many Savannah residents attended the jubilant dedication ceremony last year, and now the rousing backstory will be presented on the big screen, followed by an in-depth conversation with the filmmakers and the stars of the film.

    SYNOPSIS
    Gullah Geechee storyteller Sistah Patt Gunn leads a diverse coalition in a three-year battle to rename Savannah’s Calhoun Square — once honoring pro-slavery advocate John C. Calhoun — after Susie King Taylor, a Civil War nurse, educator, and formerly enslaved woman. Despite legal barriers and opposition, the film chronicles a community’s resilience and determination to reclaim history.

    27 minutes
    Followed by Q&A with Gunn, coalition members and the filmmakers

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  • Featuring: 
    Sistah Patt Gunn
    Rosayln (Rouz) Rouse
    Peggy Hilleary
    Sharon
    Christiana
    Luciana Spracher 
    Keisha Gibson-Carter
    Bernetta Lanier
    Alicia Miller Blakely 

    Production Team: 
    Director |  Caroline Josey Karoki
    Producer and Editor | Abbey Hoekzema
    Director of Photography | Evan Griffith
    Post Sound Mixer | Lisle Engle
    Colorist | Ross Bartels

    Additional Cinematographers:
    Kyle Maddux-Lawrence, Sean Marcus, Caroline Josey Karoki, Abbey Hoekzema

    Made with support from DOC Savannah

    Social Media Handles: @docsavannah @joseycarolinek @amhoekzema @suitcase.and.dream.production @tripod.productions

    Hindsight Film Festival is presented by The Better Angels Society (Lavine / Ken Burns Prize for Film), and supported by our generous sponsors and partners Civis Foundation, Savannah Regional Film Commission, WRUU 107.5, CinemaSavannah and Doc Savannah.

Past Events

The Day Iceland Stood Still

October 10th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival screened The Day Iceland Stood Still, which premiered at HotDocs and has shown internationally to wide acclaim, but is still not available online. The film recalls one day in 1975 when 90 percent of the women in Iceland skipped their jobs and housework to demonstrate in the streets for equal pay and opportunity. The film was followed by an interview with the filmmakers, Emmy-winner Pamela Hogan, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, by Amy Paige Condon of the Savannah Morning News.

Amy Paige Condon asks The Day Iceland Stood Still filmmakers about how documentary films like this can amplify progressive voices in a moment of regression for gender equality.

Emmy-winning filmmaker Pamela Hogan talks about the challenges of finding distribution for niche documentaries today and the excitement of showing her film in places like Savannah.

Full interview with filmmakers before the screening on October 10th, 2025

The feature presentation was preceded by Armadillo Olympics, a 10 minute film by local student filmmaker Bae Allen, which looks back an agricultural phenomenon that started 45 years ago in Southeast Georgia. We chatted with Bae Allen about his process of discovering the lost Southern tradition and bringing it to the big screen.

The Disappearance of Miss Scott

June 6th, 2025
Hindsight Film Festival hosted our first preview event at the Savannah Cultural Arts Center. The Disappearance of Miss Scott, a PBS American Masters film, was shown to a diverse capacity crowd of 250 attendees. Our sponsor Cinema Savannah helped promote the event to their loyal following of over 1,000 film enthusiasts, and The Better Angels Society generously sponsored the travel for Emmy Award-winning director Nicole London to be there for an in-person Q&A. The son of Hazel Scott, Adam Clayton Powell III, was also interviewed on a live-stream by Christina Davis, Professor of History from Savannah State University, the local HBCU.

PRESS

The Savannahian
Hazel Scott documentary screening sets the stage for local film fest effort

Savannah Morning News
Savannah's Hindsight Film Festival presents PBS documentary at Cultural Arts Center

WTOC Morning Break TV interview
Free Screening to Preview Film Festival

WSAV Community Corner TV interview
Hindsight Film Festival presents FREE screening of 'The Disappearance of Miss Scott', a PBS American Masters film

Kareem McMichael
Unearthing a Legend: Hazel Scott's Story Comes to Savannah Through Hindsight Film Festival