The Will to Survive Television Documentary Provides Rare Glimpse Into the Gullah/ Geechee Culture

The Will to Survive Television Documentary Provides Rare Glimpse Into the Gullah/ Geechee Culture

April Airdates on TVONE for Film Which Highlights the Gullah/Geechee Nation,

One of the Most Authentically African Communities in U.S.

WHAT: Additional airdates for the nationally syndicated television
documentary The Will to Survive: The Story of the Gullah/
Geechee People.

The film will also be shown at the International Black Film
Festival in Berlin, Germany, (first international screening)
and the American Black Film Festival in Miami.

WHEN: Sunday, April 16, 2006 at 5:00 PM

Saturday, April 22, 2006 at 12 PM Noon

WHERE: TV ONE, Check Local Listing

BACKGROUND: The Gullah/Geechee culture was recently named "one of the
five remarkable cultural wonders of the world you should
visit before it vanishes" by USA Today. The Gullahs and
Geechees, were first brought from Africa to the isolated Sea
Islands off the coast of North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia and have survived in almost total obscurity for more
than 200 years. Many African traditions are maintained in
today's Gullah/Geechee culture.

The hour-long documentary, presented by Wal-Mart's Voices of
Color film series, focuses on the last remaining "intact"
Geechee community of Hog Hammock in Sapelo Island, Georgia.
Hog Hammock has been called the most authentic African-
American community in the United States. In the present day,
island villagers struggle to preserve their African culture,
and American property rights.

CONTACTS: Jetta Bates, E. Morris Communications, jbates@emorris.com
(312) 943.7675 (office) or (312) 752.0456 (mobile)

PRNewswire -- April 11

Source: Will to Survive

Web site: http://www.emorris.com/

-------
Profile: intent