Film Forum

The acclaimed short film LYNCHING POSTCARDS: “TOKEN OF A GREAT DAY” (shortlisted for the Academy Award® for Documentary Short Subject), pays visceral witness to the horrors of racism over nearly a century and exposes the vile history of lynchings in America – commemorated via souvenir postcards. From 1880 to 1968, over 4,000 African Americans (men and women) were murdered at the hands of white mobs who staged these horrors as public celebrations akin to picnics or carnivals. Turner assembles a trove of graphic historical materials, contextualized by commentary from historians, showing how these “mementos” were ultimately subverted by Black activists as clear evidence of violence towards African Americans.  

2021               15 MINS.                   MTV DOCUMENTARY FILMS  

Presented with support from the Richard Brick, Geri Ashur, and Sara Bershtel Fund for Social Justice Documentaries