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Across the Tracks (2015)

Tara and Ella Hines are sisters living very different lives. Tara is a big city architect with a fighting spirit that has brought her great success. Ella, a few years younger, never left the hometown of their youth and has been the primary caretaker of the family. Estranged for 40 years, they are brought together finally with the death of their mother. Through a series of flashbacks, their childhood in rural 1960s Georgia unfolds. The "Coloreds only" bathroom and side entrance to shops. The train tracks that separated the town by skin color. We see them navigate this world full of inferiority and bullying, ultimately leading to Ella's decision to become white. As the sisters lay their mother to rest, the past rises up to meet them and we're finally shown the moment that tore their family apart.

Release: 2015-03-01
Runtime: 15 min
Cast
Don Battee
Don Battee
Walter Lee
Nicky Buggs
Nicky Buggs
Mama
Berkeley Clayborne
Berkeley Clayborne
Young Ella
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Brynn Crosby
Young Tara
Thursday Farrar
Thursday Farrar
Tara
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Britney Heard
Sandra
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Reese Houston
Susie
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Madalin Jones
Jane
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Shelby Grace Jones
Lizzie
Alina Lia
Alina Lia
Tara's Assistant
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Carla McCullough
Ella
E. Roger Mitchell
E. Roger Mitchell
Daddy
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Eric Oliver
Pastor
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Mattilyn Winburn
Brittany
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Andrew Winkler
Chuck
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Austin Winkler
Bobby Ray