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"Tell Them We Are Rising" is headed to Sundance

Tom Phillips of OBT Music finished composing and producing the score for award winning producer Stanley Nelson's "Tell Them We Are Rising". The 90 minute film will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and will be broadcast on PBS's Independent Lens. The film covers the establishment of African American colleges and universities in the US, the prejudices and issues that had to be overcome as well as the violence directed towards those institutions and students.