24 Hour FilmFeast: A Conversation with Regina Taylor

CHILDREN OF THE DUST Noon-2 p.m. Gypsy Smith, a gunfighter and a bounty hunter, leads US army into Cheyenne camp to capture suspected Indian renegade. A long train of events begins that lead to that ‘good day to die.’ White Wolf, only a child, is one of the few survivors of the tribe’s massacre. Gypsy brings him to live with the Maxwell family where he grows up not fully Indian and not really white but a bit too close to Rachel, the Maxwell daughter. Gypsy reappears, leading a group of Black settlers from the post-Civil War south, to start a new life in a town of their own-freedom in the Oklahoma Territory, its first black settlement. White Wolf (or Corby as a ‘white’ name’) is now with his people, but all of these parts come back together in conflict, violence, loss and Pyrrhic triumph. Taylor co-stars with Academy award winner Sidney Poitier. 120 minutes. 1995

COURAGE UNDER FIRE 2:30-4:30 p.m. The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, and then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. LT Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm is assigned to investigate and award her the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts from her crew and soldiers in the area cause him to be question whether she deserves it. Taylor co-stars with Academy award winner Denzel Washington. 98 minutes. 1996

CONVERSATION AND RECEPTION WITH REGINA TAYLOR 4:30 p.m. Hosted by Vickie Washington Nance.