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Director: Joe York
Run Time: 16 min
Year: 2009
Category: Documentary Short
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This film is included in the SOUTHERN SUCCULENTS FOOD FILM SHOWCASE, a program of films produced at the University of Mississippi's Media & Documentary Projects Center in association with the Southern Foodways Alliance. The series is co-sponsored by Oxford American magazine.
Synopsis: Travel to North Carolina's Skylight Inn, once declared the capital of 'cue by National Geographic. A capital dome atop the building will confirm you're at the right location. The Jones family cooks whole hog barbecue in open pits over oak, and then chops it -- skin and all -- on a wood chopping block.
Joe York is a producer and director of documentary films at the University of Mississippi's Media and Documentary Projects Center. He works closely with the Southern Foodways Alliance for whom he has made over twenty short documentaries, including CUD, SMOKES & EARS, and WHOLE HOG. His first short documentary, SAVING SEEDS (2005), was a finalist for the Golden Snail Award at the Slow Food on Film Festival and his first and only feature documentary, SAVING WILLIE MAE'S SCOTCH HOUSE (2007), has been aired nationally on public television.
