After hearing of a modern-day lynching in a small Texas town, longtime friends Whitney and Dow hit upon a novel idea: they took segregated film crews there to interview members of their own racial communities. As white supremacists went to trial, the pair captured residents' uncensored reactions, and after a year of filming, illuminated a country a generation after desegregation. It's compelling and complex stuff — transcending easy stereotypes about racist whites and angry blacks — in exploring one of America's biggest challenges, a racial divide not easily bridged. In the editing process, the filmmakers were not immune to this gap: they clashed heatedly over whether the case was an isolated incident or part of a continuing story of brutality. (PS)Two Towns of Jasper (official website)