Raoul Peck's “Silver Dollar Road” chronicles the story of the Reels family in North Carolina. For generations, the Reels have owned and lived on 65 waterfront acres, land that's been in the family since the days of Reconstruction.
FILE - Director Raoul Peck poses for a portrait to promote his documentary film “Silver Dollar Road” during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2023, in Toronto. This image released by Amazon shows Licurtis Reels, left, and Melvin Davis from the documentary, “Silver Dollar Road.” FILE - Director Raoul Peck poses for a portrait to promote his documentary film “Silver Dollar Road” during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9, 2023, in Toronto.
For generations, the Reels have owned and lived on 65 waterfront acres along Adams Creek in Carteret County. The land, known as Silver Dollar Road, has been in the family since the days of Reconstruction, when their ancestors were freed from slavery. Elijah Reels officially took ownership in 1911, but when he died without a will, the land became what’s called heirs’ property, with ownership shared among a large group of Reels descendants.
In Peck’s hands, the film stays close to the Reels’ experience and to the land; images of vines that wrap the family tree seem to grow out of the forests of Silver Dollar Road. The story is specific but reverberates with a much larger history of Black landownership and exploitation. Between 1910 and 1997, Black Americans are estimated to have lost 90% of their farmland, withBut the 70-year-old Peck sees his kind of documentary filmmaking as growing obsolete.
“It’s not impossible,” he adds. “But the mainstream, they’re going to a place that I think is not that interesting. So I have to fight against all that.”
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