In an acting tour de force, one man performs 36 roles in the telling of the Emmett Till tragedy. Experience the story, trial, and unbelievable confessions of those accused of Emmett’s murder in this riveting drama.

“Thank you… [Dar He] chronicles an important and tragic event in the history of our country.”
– NC Governor Beverly Perdue

“A masterful performance by Mike Wiley.”
– 20th Pan African Film Festival

Mike’s “uncanny ability to transform himself allows us to experience this piece of history in all its horror.”
– Deirdre Haj, Exec Dir of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

“Brilliant… an inspiring film.”
– Tim Tyson, best selling author, Blood Done Sign My Name

STORY
Days after stepping off the train, 14-year old Emmett Till from Chicago goes missing in Money, Mississippi. Later, the boy’s mutilated body is found in a river. William Bradford Huie of Look magazine interviews the people of Money to get at the root of what happened. The two men acquitted for the boy’s murder, Roy Bryant Jr. and J.W. Milam, also agree to sit down to discuss the trial. Not a word had been uttered outside a courtroom by them or their kin, until now…

The film was adapted from the popular one-man play written and performed by Mike Wiley, similarly titled, Dar He: The Story of Emmett Till. More athttp://www.mikewileyproductions.com/play_darhe.html

TRUTH
DAR HE is an essential civil rights story crafted from public record; it transports us back to this historic drama that became a lightning rod for moral outrage and pivotal in inspiring a whole generation of people to commit to social change in the 1950s.