My Father's Name

Upcoming events

A PEACE OF MY MIND Presents A Free Film Screening & Panel Discussion

Following the screening will be an in-person conversation between A Peace of My Mind’s Nick Theisen and director Susanna Styron.

Tuesday, February 3, 2026 7:00 PM

Saint Paul, Minnesota

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Past events

The Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University

Panel discussion with Susanna Styron and Executive Producer Connie Royster moderated by the eminent historian, Professor David Blight and Yale faculty after the screening at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 4:35 PM

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The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at Yale University

Screening with panel and filmmaker Q&A moderated by the eminent historian, Professor David Blight, as well as other esteemed participants from Yale’s faculty

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 4:30 PM

Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church, Chapel Hill, NC

Panel discussion with filmmaker Susanna Styron, NC State Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies Timothy Hinton, Associate Rector at the Chapel of the Cross Keith Esposito and moderator David Dodson.

Friday, October 17, 2025 7:00 PM

304 E. Franklin Street Chapel Hill, NC

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Center for the Study of White American Culture

The Anti-Racist Community Network presents a Free Virtual Screening of MY FATHER’S NAME followed by a Q&A with the film’s protagonist, Jan Frazier.

Monday, September 15, 2025 6:30 PM

Anti-Racist Community Network

Lynching in History and Memory

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History present a screening of short films focused on racial violence and lynching. The screening will be followed by a panel conversation with filmmakers Talamieka Brice (Bootjack and Red), Susanna Styron and Connie Royster (My Father’s Name), and Antonio Tarrell (Sites of Memory).

Sunday, September 7, 2025 2:00 PM

Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS, 222 North St #2205 Jackson, MS

Martha’s Vineyard Museum Screening + Q&A

Susanna Styron and Executive Producer Connie Royster will discuss their collaboration, the delicate process of bringing such a volatile subject to the screen, and how their differing perspectives on race shaped the process and the outcome.

Thursday, August 28, 2025 5:00 PM

MV Museum, 151 Lagoon Pond Road, Vineyard Haven, MA

12th Social Justice Film Festival

Official Selection

Seattle Screening: April 11th, 8:30PM

The Film streams on the Virtual Cinema platform April 14–20 as part of Film Block F

Wednesday, April 9 — Sunday, April 20, 2025

Seattle, WA

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival

MY FATHER’S NAME will be screened at 12:00 PM on Sunday, March 30.

The festival starts STREAMING the film March 31 at 3:00 am EDT through April 9. This virtual screening is eligible for audience awards! Unlock it to cast your vote.

Sunday, March 30 — Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Robert Brent Auditorium, Sebastopol, CA

Hutchins Center at Harvard University

Discussion with Susanna Styron and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research after the screening of My Father’s Name.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6:00 PM

Cambridge, MA

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Hutchins Center for African & African American Research

My Father’s Name: A Film Screening and Discussion with Susanna Styron and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

This event is accessible, free, and open to the public.

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 6:00 PM

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Maysles Documentary Center

Post-screening Q&A panel discussion with Susanna Styron, moderated by Jamal Joseph.

Friday, March 7, 2025 7:00 PM

Harlem, NYC

28th Magnolia Independent Film Festival

Thursday Evening Screening

UEC Starkville Hollywood Premiere Cinemas

Thursday, February 20, 2025 5:30 PM

Starkville, MS

St Louis International Film Festival & EncoreNOW

Thanks to St Louis International Film Festival, My Father’s Name is available for streaming on EncoreNOW through 12/22/24.

Friday, November 29 — Sunday, December 22, 2024

Big Apple Film Festival 2024 Fall Edition

Official Selection of the Featured Documentary Program

Monday, November 18, 2024 8:30 PM

Look Dine-In Cinemas: Theater #4, W 57th St, NYC

33rd Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival

Oscar® Qualifying Shorts Competition: Documentary Shorts 10 Program

Thursday, November 14, 2024 5:10 PM

Chase Park Plaza Cinema, St. Louis, MO

27th Annual East Lansing Film Festival

Screening as part of the Shorts Docs Program, both at 3:30PM on Nov. 9 and 14.

Saturday, November 9 — Thursday, November 14, 2024

Studio C Meridian Mall, East Lansing, MI

7th Annual “Lynching in Maryland” Conference

A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Terry Anne Scott, author of the acclaimed Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas, followed the screening of MY FATHER’S NAME.

Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:21 PM

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Adapting Personal Stories Into a Film

Host and Big Apple Film Founder/Director Jonathan Lipp speaks with acclaimed writer/director/producer Susanna Styron on adapting personal stories into a film.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 4:29 PM

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7th Annual “Lynching in Maryland” Conference

A panel discussion moderated by Dr. Terry Anne Scott, author of the acclaimed Lynching and Leisure: Race and the Transformation of Mob Violence in Texas, will follow the screening.

The program is offered both in-person and in virtual attendance.

Saturday, November 2, 2024 9:30 AM

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore, MD

Little Known Facts With Ilana Levine

“LKF” Podcast interview with Susanna Styron, available on Spotify, Apple and wherever podcasts can be heard.

Monday, October 21, 2024 8:23 PM

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7th Annual NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival

My Father’s Name is streaming now. Sign up for a free account with iWomanTV to watch the film. The film with the most views by September 23, will be awarded the Audience Choice Award from iWomanTV.

Thursday, August 15 — Monday, September 23, 2024

Streaming at iWomanTV

MV Times: Uncovering secrets

Susanna Styron’s stirring documentary ‘My Father’s Name’… was a prefect catalyst for the far-ranging panel discussion afterward… about race, reckoning and individual and collective responsibility.
— Abby Remer, MV Times

Wednesday, August 28, 2024 9:00 AM

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Martha's Vineyard Film Society Panel

MY FATHER’S NAME post-screening panel at Martha’s Vineyard Film Center, August 2024. Featuring Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Rabbi Caryn Broitman, director Susanna Styron. Moderated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Sunday, August 18, 2024 8:30 PM

Martha's Vineyard Film Center, MV, MA

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