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Making Sweet Tea
USA 2019
produced by Stephen J. Lewis, Nora Gross, John L. Jackson jr (executive), E. Patrick Johnson (executive) for Camra Media
directed by John L. Jackson jr, Nora Gross
starring E. Patrick Johnson, Sarah M. Johnson, Joseph Megel, Charles Kenneth Danner jr, Duncan Teague, David Thurman, Shean Atkins, Freddie Styles, Harold Mays, Harold Herman, Countess Vivian (= George Eagerson), Stephen J. Lewis
based on the book by E. Patrick Johnson, music by Guthrie P. Ramsey jr, Vince Anthony
documentary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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This documentary's story is pretty much its own backstory already: Back
in the day, E. Patrick Johnson wrote a book called Sweet Tea: Black Gay
Men of the South — An Oral History, which became a bestseller, and
later he decided to turn the book into a one-man stageplay, where he would
re-enact several of the interviews he did. For this, and here's where the
film sets in, he did re-unite with several of his book's subject from all
over the South, to do more in-depth interviews to get their soul and
mindset right on stage. And the film pretty much takes us through the
creative process of the stageplay, interweaving above interviews with
scenes of Johnson practicing (often with the interviewees in attendence),
performing, and telling about his own experiences as a gay black in the
South ... ... and the outcome is a very lively piece of film,
thanks to its lively interviewees (including Johnson himself), and also
because it throws a slightly different focus on its central themes,
because it doesn't shy away from the darker side of its subject matter
while at the same time giving it a romantic spin, but also because it
picks up the same theme spanning several generations (with its oldest
interviewee born in 1911), thus giving the story not only emotional but
also historical depth. And this way, without sugar-coating it, Making
Sweet Tea has become a very sweet film indeed.
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