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Coming to cinemas and Netflix<\/a> this Friday (21st October) is new film Descendant, from The Order of Myths and The Great Invisible filmmaker Margaret Brown.<\/p>\n Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama\u2019s Higher Ground and Night Tide, in association with Two One Five Entertainment, the feature film sees Brown returning to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama to document the search for and historic discovery of the Clotilda, the last known ship illegally carrying enslaved Africans to arrive in the United States.<\/p>\n It follows the 2019 discovery of the ship and features interviews with members of the descendent Africatown community, presenting a moving portrait as they actively grapple with and fight to preserve their heritage, while examining what justice looks like today.<\/p>\n Despite the \u201cdense\u201d story, Brown says she struggled to fit everything in, telling RadioTimes.com<\/a> exclusively that there was one story in particular she would have liked to have included.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a lady named Selma Mavin Owens, who runs the community garden,\u201d she explained. \u201cThe community garden in Africatown is the largest garden in the state of Alabama.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible place to hang out in the morning or at night when it\u2019s not too hot, and people are gardening and they\u2019re yelling at people across the rows, like, checking in with their neighbours. We filmed there a ton, and it ended up being a thread that I felt like unless I wanted the movie to be over two hours, I just couldn\u2019t include.\u201d<\/p> As well as this, Brown originally thought she\u2019d have access to some of the white members of the community \u2013 particularly the Meaher family, descendants from Timothy Meaher, who built and owned the Clotilda slave ship.<\/p>\n Brown previously worked with Helen Meaher, former Alabama Mardi Gras Queen, and was expecting to interview her for Descendant.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought since Helen Meaher had been in my film and travelled with me that she would talk to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I had access to the white people who were part of the apparatus of this so starting it I thought it would be like Order of Myths, like white anthropology looking at whiteness, which I felt equipped to do.<\/p>\n \u201cBut with this film, I realised about two years in, they probably weren\u2019t going to talk to me, and in fact, all these other powerful white families in Alabama wouldn\u2019t talk to me either because this is about justice. This is about reparations.\u201d<\/p>\n Descendant premieres in UK cinemas and on Netflix<\/a> on Friday 21st October. <\/strong>\u00a0Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on\u00a0Sky Glass<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Read more of our\u00a0Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what else is on.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Grace Henry Published: Thursday, 20 October 2022 at 12:00 am Coming to cinemas and Netflix this Friday (21st October) is new film Descendant, from The Order of Myths and The Great Invisible filmmaker Margaret Brown. 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