Beautifully layered and expressionistic, After Sherman is a story about inheritance and the tension that defines our collective American history, especially Black history. The filmmaker follows his father, a minister, in the aftermath of a mass shooting at his church in Charleston, South Carolina to understand how communities of descendants of enslaved Africans use their unique faith as a form of survival as they continue to fight for America to live up to its many unfulfilled promises to Black Americans.
Hedera Pictures, Sundance Institute, Black Public Media, Ford Foundation / JustFilms, American Documentary, Firelight Media, Field of Vision, Tribeca Film Institute, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ITVS, Doc Society