special guest

Eli N. Evans

NY writer and Durham native son.

Eli N. Evans will be appearing alongside film maker Steve Channning and Len Rogoff in a Q & A panel, following the 12:45pm screening of Durham, A Self Portrait and Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina.

Evans, who appears in Durham: A Self Portrait, describes the film:

"The film is a revelation, even for someone like me who lived the story on the screen through my boyhood because my father served as Mayor through one of the really turbulent eras in the South’s history. Being a Jewish mayor in the South was unique at that time and this film takes the viewer inside the experience showing the way the city triumphed over the forces of racism that engulfed so many other cities and towns across the South that did not have the leadership in the black and white communities that blessed Durham."