{"id":11259,"date":"2011-01-04T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11259"},"modified":"2011-01-04T22:34:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:34:57","slug":"long-way-home-the-loving-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11259","title":{"rendered":"Long Way Home: The Loving Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long Way Home: The Loving Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Augusta Films
\n2010<\/p>\n

Director and Producer: Nancy Buirski
\n<\/strong>Producer and Editor: Elisabeth Haviland James<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nRichard and Mildred Loving, Circa 1967<\/small><\/p>\n

This\u00a0documentary feature film, currently in production, tells the dramatic story of Mildred and Richard Loving<\/a>, a black and Cherokee<\/a> woman married to a white man (against the law in 1958-Virginia<\/a>) and of their famous anti-miscegenation case argued in the Supreme Court in 1967<\/a>. Thrown into rat-infested jails and exiled from their hometown<\/a> for 25 years, the Lovings fought back and changed history. Using rare archival footage, home movies, photographs, interviews with witnesses, friends and family, and poetic visual and narrative sequences, the documentary will build a complex portrait of the couple at the heart of marriage equality in this country. It will also do something rare in storytelling\u2014look at the story itself as it has mutated over the years, with the understanding that history is only as reliable as those who tell it.<\/p>\n

Both of the attorneys, Bernie Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, who represented Mildred and Richard Loving in the 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia<\/em> have agreed to participate in the project as consultants and as on-camera interviews.\u00a0 In addition, Peggy Loving Fortune and Sidney Jeter Loving, the surviving children of Mildred and Richard have agreed to be on-camera participants. This is notable because, like their mother, they have guarded their privacy and avoided media attention for most of their lives.<\/p>\n