Southern Storytellers | show | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Celebrate Southern identity through the eyes of contemporary creators of literature, music, film and TV | dHNfcG82RFFtbVk3UGs

Transcript

00:00 (gentle music)

00:02 - Story is the means through which people

00:05 and places achieve immortality.

00:07 - The series captures all different genres of storytellers.

00:15 People like Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Jericho Brown.

00:18 - Poems are always after your subconscious

00:20 or your unconscious.

00:21 - Mary Steenburgen.

00:22 - I loved being a trainman's daughter.

00:25 I was proud of it.

00:26 - And Billy Bob Thornton.

00:27 - The South is made for writers.

00:30 The ultimate beauty in writing is something

00:32 that makes you expand as a soul or a person.

00:36 - Our culture is still being informed.

00:39 It's still ongoing.

00:40 We don't have a settled history.

00:42 William Faulkner said,

00:45 "The Southern reveals a compulsion to explain."

00:48 - I think what surprised me the most

00:50 is how much the South is changing

00:52 and how rapidly it was changing,

00:54 even during the production of this.

00:56 - A lot of the culture that's been there

00:58 for a very long time is disappearing fast.

01:00 Much of what we want to remember,

01:03 much of what we need to know gets erased.

01:06 - Story is a thing that we carry with us each and every day.

01:09 - The literary canon has kept us out.

01:12 Our stories deserve to be heard.

01:14 - Our culture is still open for interpretation

01:17 and explanation and exploration.

01:19 I think that's what makes storytelling

01:21 so vital in the South.

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01:26 (gentle music)

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