Stone Mountain

The colossal rockface carving depicting three Confederate leaders – Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson – towers over Stone Mountain Park, on the outskirts of Atlanta. It’s Georgia state’s most popular tourist attraction. Daniel Kaufman’s fascinating film profiles the locals living beneath it: an activist striving to be a voice for the town’s majority Black community; an historian confronting his own legacy; a third generation Klansman who is fuelling renewed division in the region, and a civil rights organiser campaigning for the monument’s destruction. Unfolding over a turbulent five years in the US, including a wave of anti-racist protests that saw the toppling of statues and monuments across the country, this visually arresting documentary reveals a divided community grappling with its troubled legacy and uncertain future. (Sheffield DocFest)

DOC NYC – GRAND JURY PRIZE, U.S. COMPETITION