A Killing in Choctaw

A Killing in Choctaw

🎞️ Movie 74 min --
2004

Choctaw, Alabama, 1962 - an eighteen year old Carl Ray is severely beaten by a white man for disrespecting him; an hour later the white man shows up at the Carl's home and murders his father in cold blood. A Killing in Choctaw is a documentary on the life of Carl Ray and how the incident of 1962 defined his life and held him prisoner in his own skin for several decades. Through effective narration, reenactment, archival footage, and interviews with actual witnesses of the murder and trial participants, the documentary takes us back to the 1960's and sets the social context that bred such a horrific crime. We then follow the subsequent trauma, depression, and denial that young Ray suffered and endured for several decades until he learned to forgive his father's killer. A Killing In Choctaw is a haunting awakening to the effects of America's age-long racial injustice, it is a documentary that celebrates the triumph of light over darkness

Cast

๐Ÿ‘ค
Carl Ray
Carl
๐Ÿ‘ค
Malcolm Metoyer
Young Carl
Max Thayer
Max Thayer
Attorney Joe Thompson
Edward Murphy Kelahan
Edward Murphy Kelahan
Jury Foreman
๐Ÿ‘ค
Tommy Ruddell
Outspoken Young Juror
๐Ÿ‘ค
Orion McCabe
Racist Juror
๐Ÿ‘ค
Amelia Ray
Composer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Robert Fisher
Cinematographer
๐Ÿ‘ค
William Murray
Cinematographer
๐Ÿ‘ค
Jeff Wager
Cinematographer