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This event is part of the Black Bottom Film Festival. Purchase a Festival Pass for access to free vouchers to this screening. 

Directed by Sam Pollard

Two Trains Runnin’ is a feature-length documentary directed by acclaimed filmmaker Sam Pollard, narrated by Common, and featuring the music of Gary Clark Jr. The documentary examines the search for two forgotten Blues singers set in Mississippi during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. The film pays tribute to a pioneering generation of musicians and cuts to the heart of our present moment, offering a crucial vantage from which to view the evolving dynamics of race in America.

This remarkable film captures the way in which music holds and carries the truths we are not yet ready to recognize in full...
- The Portland Observer