Southern Justice

Screenplay by Harris W. Freedman

©Copyright 2006 by the Author

 

Southern Justice, achieved Fifth Place at the 2010 Canada International Film Festival, and was Semi-Finalist in the 2008 Writemovies.com International Writing Contest.

 

SYNOPSIS:
Alabama 1940-1961. A young African American lawyer and the daughter of a prominent white family embark on a clandestine love affair. When the reading of a will reveals that their fathers are fraternal twins and are entitled to equal shares of the white family’s fortune her family attempts to silence his with racial violence.

 

Time: 1940 to 1961
Place: Birmingham Alabama, NYC