ASHES TO ASHES, a short documentary, is a collaboration produced by Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker, directed by Taylor Rees, and shot by Renan Ozturk.

ASHES TO ASHES tells the story of avid Star Wars fan and master leatherwork artist, Winfred Rembert, who is also a survivor of an attempted lynching in Cuthbert, Georgia in 1967.  The film also brings to light the extraordinary friendship between Winfred and Dr. Shirley.  Her goal and her dream is to memorialize the forgotten 4,000 African Americans lynched during the Jim Crow era through a special home-going ceremony, entitled Ashes to Ashes.