SC Democrat Bakari Sellers opens up about Charleston shooting in new documentary

Former state Rep. Bakari Sellers is hitting the big screen as the subject of a new documentary.

The film “While I Breathe, I Hope” — the title comes from South Carolina’s state motto — follows Democrat Sellers’ unsuccessful 2014 run for lieutenant governor, his subsequent career as a CNN analyst and the 2015 Charleston church massacre that claimed the life of State House colleague Clementa Pinckney.

“Some of it shows me in all my glory and some of it my despair,” Sellers said in a phone interview with The State.

The film will premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival in October and might be released more widely early next year, Sellers said. Producers are trying to get the film shown in Palmetto State theaters, he said.

This story was originally published August 30, 2018 at 11:17 AM.