Film director Horace Jenkins' son, Sacha Jenkins, was interviewed on The Takeaway to discuss the impact of the movie on his own life and career. The interview also included Rhea Combs, the curator of film and photography at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
This 1982 feature film was screened at the first-ever Smithsonian African American Film Festival, hosted by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington, DC, in October 2018.
The director Horace Jenkins was an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker, and "Cane River" was his first feature-length narrative film. But just months after the film premiered in New Orleans, the forty-two-year-old director died of a heart attack and "Cane River" never received a distribution.
It took a year to restore the film.
This film has a 100% rating based on 16 critic reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.