OSCAR NOMINATED BEST DOCUMENTARY

In HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING, Ross offers an inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people. The film presents Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son in an open-ended, poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives. The audience is invited to experience the mundane and monumental, birth and death, the quotidian and the sublime, all of which combine to communicate the region's deep culture and glimpse the complex ways the African American community's collective image is integrated into America's visual imagination.

Mr. Ross retains a patient and focused eye. His camera's gaze has a quality of reserve, one that insistently imparts respect to his subjects. -Glenn Kenny, NY Times

A poetic documentary with a gift for making enrapturing imagery out of what sound like ordinary, everyday events. -Kenneth Turan, LA Times