Judy Hill

From Texas to the swamps of Louisiana, Roberto Minervini has made his name as a formally adventurous chronicler of the forgotten communities of the U.S. South. Powerfully intimate and sociopolitically urgent, this New Orleans-set documentary is a striking portrait of community and racism in America.

Mikey Saber, a charismatic con man and washed-up porn star, plots his return to the big time from small-town Texas in this story of an American hustler and a hometown that barely tolerates him.