Still from Always In Season. Claudia Lacy cleans up the flowers at the grave of her son, Lennon Lacy, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014, at Old Shaw-Lacy Field Cemetery in Bladenboro, N.C. Lennon Lacy, a 17-year-old black teenager, was found dead on Aug. 29, 2014, hanging from a swing set in a trailer park in the rural community. Police ruled the death a suicide, but his family believe it was murder.
Always in Season
Still from Always In Season
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Directed & Produced by

Jacqueline Olive

Produced by

Jennifer Redfearn

When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother’s search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a century of lynching African Americans bleeds into the present.

Always in Season participated in the 2018 (Egg)celerator Lab.

2019 Sundance Film Festival

Special Jury Award for Moral Urgency – US Documentary Competition

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Jacqueline Olive is smiling and looking directly at the camera. She has shoulder-length hair. Portrait in black and white.
Jacqueline Olive
Photo courtesy Jacqueline Olive
Portrait of Jess Devaney smiling at the camera in black and white.
Jess Devaney
Photo courtesy Jessica Devaney
topics & tags
Criminal JusticeRace/Ethnicity
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(Egg)celerator Lab 2018
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