Ashes to Ashes: US Lynchings and a Story of Survival

Winfred Rembert, a survivor of a lynching attempt, befriends fellow artist on a mission to memorialise forgotten names. Winfred Rembert, 74, is a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist who grew up picking cotton on a plantation in Georgia in the United States. Decades on, he develops a friendship with Dr Shirley Jackson Whitaker, a physician and fellow artist who is on a mission to memorialise the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era, which enforced racial segregation in the Southern states from 1877 through to the 1950s. FILMMAKER’S VIEW By Taylor Freesolo Rees At a time when the word “survival” is more commonly associated with televised adventure, Winfred Rembert, 74, reminds us what the word really means.