2021 | USA | Documentary

The Panola Project

  • 17 mins
  • Director | Jeremy S. Levine, Rachael DeCruz
  • Producer | Jeremy S. Levine, Rachael DeCruz

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This subtle yet engaging documentary features Dorothy Oliver as she organizes to keep her rural Alabama town safe from COVID-19 by vaccinating everyone. 

The Panola Project highlights the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver to keep her small town of Panola, AL safe during the pandemic. Dorothy runs a makeshift Covid vaccine coordination center from the convenience store she runs out of a mobile home. Today, nearly 99% of adults in her town have received the shot in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The Panola Project illuminates how an often-overlooked rural Black community comes together in creative ways to survive.

COVID-19 vaccine survive documentary Alabama