Ross Spears
Directing
Known For
Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White is a series of three feature length films telling the story of modern Southern Literature, one of the major cultural achievements of our time.
Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White
A documentary on the life of author and screenwriter James Agee.
Agee
A portrait of a contemporary, poor, rural family living under the same conditions as the cotton sharecroppers of the Depression.
To Render A Life
The Tennessee Valley Authority, or the TVA, was a project like no other, and after more than a half-century, continues to shape life in the South.
The Electric Valley
Father James Harold Flye is best known as the life-long friend and mentor of writer James Agee. In this touching portrait of James Flye, the man to whom the Letters of James Agee to Father Flye were written, Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Ross Spears gives us a record of several visits with Father Flye spanning a ten-year period and culminating with the occasion of Father Flye’s 100th birthday.