About the Film
This 57-minute documentary returns to the Landis family of Creedmoor, North Carolina, roughly 35 years after A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle. Viewers are strongly encouraged to watch the first film before seeing Reunion, since it introduces the family, its history, and the musical traditions that this film continues.
By the time Reunion was made, family matriarch Bertha Landis, who died in 2000 at age 102, and most of her eleven children had died. The film follows later generations of the Landis family as they maintain their connections to the family home, one another, and a rich tradition of gospel singing. Fleming Landis’s daughters Karen and Sharon carry on that musical heritage with their gospel group, the Echoes of Heaven.
Reunion also focuses on the continuing importance of the original Landis farm and home place, now divided among Bertha and Coy Landis’s descendants. Family members Iverson “Junnie” Landis Jr., Dennis Daniel, and Kenneth Daniel helped bring about this second film and, with Tom Davenport, served as its co-producers.
