
December 25, 1969 · 56 years old
Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker, scholar and hoarder of ancient mixtapes. Her award-winning feature documentary, The Hand of Fatima, was described as “a combination of personal history and glorious music that is deeply compelling” by New York Magazine. Her fiction short, “A is for Aye”, screened at fe…

In the segregated Memphis of the 1960s, blues masters and beatniks created a music festival that rocked the foundations of a conservative world.