46 Years
dir. Catherine Hoffman
2020
Running time: 19:51
Film
46 Years chronicles the Nation of Islam, an unsolved murder in 1967, a man who had to grow up without a father and a man who had to live with the guilt of his brother’s death for almost five decades. The filmmaker grew up with broken and contradictory accounts of her grandfather’s murder, the stories scattered across states and generations. In 46 Years, she attempts to glue the pieces together and unearth the truth of an event that rocked a family and the Black Muslim community across America.
Catherine Hoffman
Catherine Hoffman will be graduating from the University of Missouri in spring 2020 with a degree in documentary journalism, and minors in French and Black Studies. She will be moving to Kansas City to be a Report for America corps member at Kansas City PBS as a video journalist. Hoffman thoroughly enjoyed her time interning at Kansas City PBS over the summer of 2019 (particularly when covering live music). Hoffman is thrilled to be joining her extended family in Missouri, though she will always be a Dallas, Texas native. Over the course of her career, she hopes to use documentaries to educate, entertain and bring people together.