Have you ever felt that you were meant to do something? That is the central impulse at the heart of PALM SUNDAY. Jimmy, a Black Jamaican immigrant, believes it is the will of God for him to assimilate into an all-white Baptist church in the Spring of 1970. But is it God? Or just his own desire to be accepted by a white congregation? That difficult question and others are at the heart of the film.

This is a story that grapples with American history, but through a lens that’s haunted and genre-adjacent. Although it’s set in the past, this film shows characters confronting questions that are as vital today as they were 50 years ago. Inspired by true events that occurred in Raleigh in 1963, PALM SUNDAY is a short gothic drama about race and religion from writer/director Wes Andre Goodrich.

PALM SUNDAY was produced in partial fulfillment of the MFA degree in Film at Columbia University School of the Arts with generous support from the Katherina Otto-Bernstein Development and Mentorship Grant, YoungArts Micro Grant, Columbia University Dean’s Grant, & Spark the Arts.