Reverence Wins Best Documentary Short! 🏆

Memorial
Written By John Mills

I'm incredibly honored to share that Reverence: Reclaiming the Forgotten has won Best Documentary Short at the 2026 Oscar Devereaux Micheaux BFAB Festival in Paducah, KY!!!

The work of my non-profit, the Alex Breanne Corporation, is to give Black Americans their history while re-injecting our ancestors back into the American story. I pray this marks progress toward that end.

Later this month, the film will screen at the Mystic Film Festival!

DATE: Friday, September 25, 2026
TIME: 2pm
WHERE: Mystic Luxury Cinemas

I’ll be there for a Q&A following the screening, and I would absolutely love to see familiar faces in the audience! Get tickets HERE.

Follow our film journey on our film page HERE.

Thank you for continuing to support this film, my work, and the stories we are working to restore to the historical record. 

God Bless,

John

John Mills

Originally from San Diego, John Mills is a technologist by trade, but an equity advocate and independent scholar by passion. The descendant of both southern and northern enslaved, John focuses on unearthing little known people and stories of this country’s history in slavery and the transatlantic slave trade. John presents research through the lens and perspective of a descendant, with intent to inspire understanding and empathy, a means to inspire good, God fearing people, now armed with information, to look into whether they may be unwittingly aligning to biases resulting from the reverberating effects of a past time. John is a member of the Connecticut Freedom Trail and a member of the Webb Deane Stevens Museum Council. John is also working with an international team funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in an effort to deliver transformational impact on digital methods in cultural institutions...a means to decolonize museums. Finally, John is working with the state of Connecticut, business leaders and scholars in Middletown, CT to honor and memorialize a former enslaved individual by the name of Prince Mortimer.

https://alexbreanne.org
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