Family Name
- Director: Macky Alston
- Writer: Macky Alston; Kay Gayner
- Producer: Jennifer Chaiken; Nicholas Gottlieb
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A gay man seeks to discover what kinship, if any, exists between his white family and the nearby blacks who share the name of Alston.
Family Name, the 1997 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award-winning film, follows filmmaker Macky Alston from New York to the South, as he unearths the history of his white slave-owning family, and explores the link to the black families that share his name. In this interview, Alston explains why talking with members of those families — whose ancestors were slaves owned by past generations of his family — was so important to him.
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