Shalom Y'all: The Documentary

Awards

Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival 2002
Best Documentary Jury Award
Best Documentary Audience Award

Vienna Jewish Film Festival
Official Selection

Australian Festival of Jewish Cinema 2003
Official Selection

New York Jewish Film Festival 2003
Official Selection

Washington DC Jewish Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

Houston Jewish Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

Rhode Island International Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

Vancouver Jewish Film Festival 2002
Official Selection

Traveling in a vintage Cadillac, filmmaker Brian Bain, a third generation Jew from New Orleans, sets out on a 4200-mile road trip though the American South. Traveling through Delta flatlands, small towns in Mississippi, suburban subdivisions, Texas ranches, and sprawling Sunbelt metropolises what he uncovers is the unique and diverse history of Southern Jews. Along the way, Bain woos his future wife, herself a southern Jew, and discusses Jewish participation in the Civil Rights Movement with Andrew Young.

Shalom Y’all is peopled with colorful characters, including Zelda Millstein from Natchez, a hoop-skirted tour guide at a plantation; Leo Center, a Golden Gloves boxing champion from Savannah who learned how to box by literally fighting his way to get to synagogue; Tupelo’s Jack Cristil, Mississippi State’s football game announcer for nearly a half-century; an African American-Jewish police chief; a kosher butcher; and musician provocateurs Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. Bain discovers a vibrant regional cultural and hundreds of year of rich history in a film that is happily flavored with both its Jewish and Southern roots.

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