The Games in Black & White Movie Screening

Celebrate 30 years since Atlanta’s Olympic glory with this feature documentary that earned four Southeast Emmy Awards. Centered around the inspirational, enduring friendship of Ambassador Andrew Young and 1996 Olympic CEO William Porter “Billy” Payne—characterized in the film as the most successful Black and White partnership in the American South in the civil rights era—“The Games in Black & White” presents the first comprehensive story of our city’s Olympiad, from the bid through the Games to the legacy and urban transformation that followed. Atlanta Story Partners introduces the team that led the bid and organized “the largest peacetime event in history,” the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games. Through interviews and archival footage, the film presents a compelling narrative that looks beyond athletic highlights to the story of how two men harnessed the Games as an engine of social justice at home and humanitarian outreach abroad. Includes post-screening filmmaker Q&A.