Actor •  Visual Artist •  Creator of The Selma Series

SELMA: SONGS OF THE CROSSING

SELMA: Songs of the Crossing began with a simple question: Sixty years after the historic marches, what happened to Selma after the world stopped watching?

Traveling through present-day Selma—across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, through churches, cemeteries, neighborhoods and conversations—the film became part documentary, part visual diary, and part meditation on memory, race and inheritance.

Produced for France Télévisions and directed by Jean-Jacques Cunnac, the film brings the voices of Selma’s past into conversation with the city as it exists today. For me, it also became deeply personal: an exploration of what this history means to my generation and what we pass on to the next.

Since its French broadcast, the film has traveled internationally through festivals, human-rights programs and screenings in the United States and Europe. In 2026, it returned to Alabama, where it won the Alan Hunter Award for Best Alabama Film at the Sidewalk Film Festival, along with additional recognition including a Jewel Award.

Ultimately, SELMA is not simply about what happened sixty years ago. It asks:       What do we do with that history now?

Awards

• 🏆 Alan Hunter Best Alabama Film — 2026 Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, Alabama. 

• 🏆 CEVMA Jewel Award - London, England

Major festival selections / recognition

• Sidewalk Film Festival — Official Selection, Birmingham, Alabama

• Amnesty International Film Festival / Cinéma pour les Droits Humains — Official Selection. 

• Szczecin Film Festival, Poland — European Documentary Competition. 

• Belief on Screen Film Festival — Official Selection, Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen.

• Maupintown Film Festival — Official Selection. North Carolina

• Flea Theater- Juneteenth Celebrations. Manhattan, New York