Saltzman returns to the South

It's been four decades since Paul Saltzman got punched in the head by a Klansman in Mississippi. Before he made his name as a photographer with the Beatles in India, before his career as a director and producer, the young Torontonian spent three months on the storied voter registration drive in the turbulent American South. He went back in 2006 on a personal journey, as he puts it, 'just to see.' He came back with not one but two films, the first of which makes its world premiere in the World Documentary Competition at Sundance 2009.

January 8, 2009

It's been four decades since Paul Saltzman got punched in the head by a Klansman in Mississippi. Before he made his name as a photographer with the Beatles in India, before his career as a director and producer, the young Torontonian spent three months on the storied voter registration drive in the turbulent American South. He went back in 2006 on a personal journey, as he puts it, 'just to see.' He came back with not one but two films, the first of which makes its world premiere in the World Documentary Competition at Sundance 2009.