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Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd.The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas, killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck.
The same year, the city of Jasper named a local park the "James Byrd Jr. Memorial Park" in his honor. [58] In 2003, a movie about the crime, titled Jasper, Texas, was produced and aired on Showtime. The same year, a documentary titled Two Towns of Jasper, made by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series. [62]
Whitney Dow, born in 1961, is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and director. [1] He is best known for Two Towns of Jasper (co-directed by Marco Williams), a film about the murder of a black man committed by three white men in Jasper, Texas, which received a George Foster Peabody Award [2] and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. [3]
The second of three stories about Texas movie stars. The actors in this group started their careers after 1960. 'The stars at night are big and bright': Deep in the heart of Texas movie stars post ...
Austin Amelio plays Jasper in Hit Man, and previously appeared in Richard Linklater's movie 'Everybody Wants Some' and on plenty of hit TV shows.
Jeffrey W. Byrd is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Once a protégé of Spike Lee, Byrd started his film career by working on several of Lee's films [1] including Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X and Jungle Fever. [2]
The movie stars members of the original series cast including Jace Norman as Henry Danger, Sean Ryan Fox as Jasper, Ella Anderson as Piper Hart, Michael D. Cohen as Schwoz, and Frankie Grande as ...
Chantal Akerman in 2012. The film, which premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival (where it was nominated for the International Confederation of Art Cinemas Award) and was released on DVD in 2016 as part of a boxset also containing D’Est (1993), De l’autre côté (2002), and Down There (2006), [1] examines the effect of the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. on the residents in Jasper, Texas.