"White Water" is the story of a 7 year-old black kid in segregated 1963 Opelika, Alabama who becomes obsessed with the desire to taste the water from the white's only drinking fountain and sets out on a quest to do the unthinkable: drink from it. Based on a children's book by Michael S. Bandy and Eric Stein, which was itself based on their childhood experiences, the story is now being produced as a feature film to be shot this fall in Opelika. The film is described as a "whimsical tale in the tone of 'Forest Gump.'" Rusty Cundieff ("Fear of a Black Hat," "Tales From The Hood") will direct from a script written by Bandy and Stein, with Cundieff...
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