Let’s Talk About “Sinners!”
Everyone who has seen the 2025 hit film Sinners wants to discuss it. Here’s your chance.
Set in Mississippi, sharing Mississippi stories and showcasing Mississippi talent, Sinners follows twin brothers in Clarksdale who’ve returned home to open a juke joint. The movie intertwines historical drama, social commentary, and horror with a Mississippi soundtrack that can’t be beat.
Following a free screening at the historic Temple Theater for the Performing Arts (2320 8th St) on Wednesday, October 15, come to The MAX on Thursday for a robust panel conversation featuring:
Chandra Williams currently serves as the Executive Director of the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) focused in Printmaking and Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and has studied the history of various African art forms, including the Mississippi Delta Blues.
Tyler Yarbrough is a Project Manager for Partnership for a Healthier America’s (PHA) work in the Mississippi Delta. Born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he was an integral part in organizing the Sinners weekend in his hometown this past May, having written the open letter to Warner Brothers that set everything in motion.
Nina Parikh is an experienced director currently serving as the Director of Film Mississippi, which fosters the growth of the film industry in the state, connects filmmakers with necessary resources, and cultivates and promotes filmmaking by, for, and about Mississippians.
Jay Wesley is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Director for the Department of Chahta Immi. The author of the new book, Choctaw Traditions: Stories of the Life and Customs of the Mississippi Choctaw, he served as a cultural consultant and movie extra for Sinners.
(Moderator) Ralph Eubanks is an accomplished writer whose upcoming book, When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, focuses on the Mississippi Delta. Eubanks is a recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, a national fellow at the New America Foundation, and the 2021-2022 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He currently serves as the faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.
Better known as Rev. Slim, Adrian Miles Forrest was born and raised in Grenada, Mississippi, where he grew up surrounded by gospel quartet music. After graduating from Grenada High, Rev. Slim studied music education at Mississippi Valley State University, where he sharpened his skills in arranging and recording. His career has taken him across genres, from hip-hop and gospel to Southern soul and traditional blues. He’s worked with big names like Ice T, Bootsy Collins, Kierra Sheard, Eminem, Willie Clayton, and more. In 2023, Tennessee State University Marching Band earned a Grammy Award for their collaboration with Rev. Slim and others.
The discussion will open up for dialogue with the audience towards the end.
Please RSVP and let us know you are coming to help us prepare.
Sinners is rated R for strong bloody violence, sexual content, and language. Parental guidance is strongly suggested.
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