REVIEWS
“This powerful documentary on the years-long fight over the Mississippi state flag takes the nowadays rare journalistic approach to treat people with a wide variety of viewpoints as fully human… Look Away, Look Away is not just the story of a state flag, but a probing look at how our nation’s conversation about race has changed in recent years — in some ways better, but in other ways much worse. Lines have become hardened and somewhere along the way people lost the ability or willingness to persuade. If you want a glimpse of how the red/blue, MAGA/BLM divides first opened and became chasms, this documentary provides as good a road map as I’ve seen.”
CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
The Film Yap
“Look Away, Look Away is at once, an inspiring and sobering documentary about the dynamics of public controversy in modern America.”
JOHN COSKI
Author of The Confederate Battle Flag – American’s Most Embattled Emblem
"Every American should watch Look Away, Look Away and reflect on the issues it raises. It is a beautiful, powerful document that captures the issues that divide both the state of Mississippi and our nation. This film is a courageous portrait of who we are now."
WILLIAM FERRIS
The Center for Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities
"Look Away, Look Away doesn’t serve an agenda. It may look like it does, but the basics of human decency and community are thoroughly analyzed, and displayed intelligently by O’Connor in his script… [the film] makes you part of something bigger, and this is what these kinds of films should do
FREDERICO FURZAN
Movie-Blogger.com
“Look Away, Look Away affords us that rare opportunity to understand and perhaps even empathize with those who hold viewpoints that differ from our own.”
MALCOLM GOOD
The Flag Institute
“There are no clear answers here and the only clear takeaway is that change is messy and difficult regardless of how it comes. Look Away, Look Away is a fascinating portrait of that struggle and shows that while change is possible, there’s no clear path of how to get there.”
MAT DEKINDER
Mattsentertainment.com
MEDIA
"'LOOK AWAY' DOCUMENTARY ON BATTLE OVER MISSISSIPPI STATE FLAG GIVES VOICE TO 'BOTH SIDES'"
Via Clarion-Ledger
"MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC BROADCASTING INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK O'CONNOR"
Via Mississippi Edition on Mississippi Public Radio
"A MISSISSIPPI RECKONING: FILM SHOWS BATTLE TO CHANGE STATE FLAG ABOUT IDENTITY ITSELF"
Via Mississippi Free Press
"INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK O'CONNOR ON MISSISSIPPI STORIES"
Mississippi Today - "Mississippi Stories”
