I just finished a massive project producing the multimedia for the Harvey B. Gantt Center‘s annual Jazzy Holiday Luncheon. For the project, I got to interview a number of amazing people, including Harvey Gantt himself, Dr. Henry Louis Gates as well as many others.
One of the videos I produced was a profile piece on Sally and Russell Robinson – two influential community leaders and arts patrons from Charlotte – who were one of the Gantt Center’s honorees at the luncheon. Like most projects I work on, the majority of what we shot did not relate to the story I was trying to tell about them and was thus cut from the finished piece. One excerpt from my interview with the Robinsons, however, that did not make it into their final piece I had to share. In it, Russell Robinson recounts a traumatic experience he had growing up in Charlotte, NC when he and another white child started playing with two African American children in their neighborhood in the 1930s and were confronted by the police.
Bonus Cuts | Sally & Russell Robinson: A Neighborhood Divided from Scott Lazes on Vimeo.