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On June 7, 1998, the most vicious racially motivated murder since the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till occurred in Jasper, Texas. James Byrd, an African American, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged behind it for three miles until his body disintegrated. Three white men from Jasper, with ties to white supremacist groups, were arrested and later convicted for the crime.

Two film crews, one black and one white, led by Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, set out to record the repercussions of this modern-day lynching by following the trials of the men charged with the crime and the reactions of the community members. Two Towns of Jasper integrates footage from an all white crew documenting the white community and an all black crew filming the black community. Many documentaries and dramatic films have been made about the racial divide in America, but none have used segregated crews as a lens on the subject. Filming within the respective races as opposed to across the races provides a unique and rare occasion for audiences to have “insider” access, to witness intimate moments typically not shared with anyone outside a closed community.

Behind Forgotten Eyes presents the stories of a few brave women who
came forward and broke the silence protecting a past that some want to stay buried. What are these stories that were hidden for so long?
Whilst Korea groaned under the harsh colonial rule of Imperial Japan,
the Japanese military coerced, tricked, and forced the women of Korea
into a brutal and systematic form of sexual slavery on an unimaginable
scale. Behind Forgotten Eyes combines first-hand accounts from both
Korean women and Japanese soldiers who lived through one of the worst atrocities in humankind. This documentary is narrated by actress
Yunjin Kim.