Zaire Love is a filmmaker, music maker and writer in Mississippi.
In her short documentary film "Trees," her grandmother Dorothy is the star - and storyteller.
Dorothy grew up in Sledge, Mississippi - in the Delta. Both of her parents were sharecroppers, paid cents for picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day in the 1950’s. They raised Dorothy and her ten siblings in a one-bedroom home.
Throughout the film, we hear Dorothy’s stories and memories - and we learn how they have shaped her granddaughter Zaire’s work, as a documentarian who highlights and explores the stories of Southern Black women.
Zaire recently graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
She is now the Southern Foodways filmmaker there - and she’ll be teaching at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
