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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Despite his ever-busy schedule, Warren, 52, is getting ready to pack his bags for the Sundance Film Festival, where “Prom Night in Mississippi,” a film he helped create, will premiere Jan. 17. The film follows students at Charleston High School in the Delta, attending their first integrated school prom, funded by Morgan Freeman, after years of segregated proms.
What was your role in creating “Prom Night in Mississippi?”
I was one of the cinematographers on it. I got a call because I have a jimmy-jib, a camera crane. Paul Saltzman, who was the director, was coming down in September of 2007 to shoot a film about his return to Mississippi. He had come down and worked in the Civil Rights Movement during the ’60s. So, actually, while we were shooting that film, this other film (“Prom Night in Mississippi”) happened. Thabi Moyo kind of discovered this story, and Paul (Saltzman) really explored it.
What was the most shocking thing you learned while making this documentary?
My mom was from Charleston, Miss. My mother actually grew up in Cascilla, Miss. My mom should have gone to another high school, but she wanted to go to Charleston High School. So she proposed to her father that he let her go to Charleston. There was a guy in their neighborhood that drove to Charleston every day to go to school, so she told her father that if he let her go to Charleston she would be the valedictorian. I only really found out about this story after I had gone up there.
While I was waiting in the auditorium for Morgan Freeman to show up, I was talking to the principal, Bucky, and I said: “I think my mom went to school here. I think she graduated from school here.” He said, “What year?” And I said, “1947, I think.” He said, “Come here.” We walked into the hallway with all the composite photos. I looked at 1947, and I saw my mom’s photo, and it just tore me up. She was the valedictorian.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Despite his ever-busy schedule, Warren, 52, is getting ready to pack his bags for the Sundance Film Festival, where “Prom Night in Mississippi,” a film he helped create, will premiere Jan. 17. The film follows students at Charleston High School in the Delta, attending their first integrated school prom, funded by Morgan Freeman, after years of segregated proms.
What was your role in creating “Prom Night in Mississippi?”
I was one of the cinematographers on it. I got a call because I have a jimmy-jib, a camera crane. Paul Saltzman, who was the director, was coming down in September of 2007 to shoot a film about his return to Mississippi. He had come down and worked in the Civil Rights Movement during the ’60s. So, actually, while we were shooting that film, this other film (“Prom Night in Mississippi”) happened. Thabi Moyo kind of discovered this story, and Paul (Saltzman) really explored it.
What was the most shocking thing you learned while making this documentary?
My mom was from Charleston, Miss. My mother actually grew up in Cascilla, Miss. My mom should have gone to another high school, but she wanted to go to Charleston High School. So she proposed to her father that he let her go to Charleston. There was a guy in their neighborhood that drove to Charleston every day to go to school, so she told her father that if he let her go to Charleston she would be the valedictorian. I only really found out about this story after I had gone up there.
While I was waiting in the auditorium for Morgan Freeman to show up, I was talking to the principal, Bucky, and I said: “I think my mom went to school here. I think she graduated from school here.” He said, “What year?” And I said, “1947, I think.” He said, “Come here.” We walked into the hallway with all the composite photos. I looked at 1947, and I saw my mom’s photo, and it just tore me up. She was the valedictorian.
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