Atlanta Film Festival and
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site
Present: the D.R.E.A.M. Series - FREE Screening
Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship
**Director Karin Hayes and subject Zastrow Simms in attendance**
Tuesday, February 9, 7:00 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site Screening Room
450 Auburn Ave., NE Atlanta, GA 30312
Free Parking in the Visitor's Lot
In 1948, Pip Moyer and Zastrow Simms were the top high school athletes in their segregated schools in Annapolis, Maryland, where blacks and whites lived side by side, but federal laws kept them from eating in the same restaurants, attending the same schools, even going to the same beaches. A competitive nature drove each boy to scope out the other, and the two became fast friends. By 1968, Pip , who had become the town's young mayour, and Zastrow, who was in jail, came together in the streets of Annapolis after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The trust they'd build over the years enabled the two men to save the city from riots that erupted across the country. In 2005, 71-year-old Zastrow turns politician and campaigns for his first "official" public office. Pip tries to help his old friend, even as he succumbs to the devastating effects of Parkinson's disease. As their lives crisscross over six decades, what emerges is a life-long friendship full of humor, compassion and heartbreak that realizes the vision of a truly united America.
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