A documentary film about his life , '' All Me : The Life and Times of Winfred Rembert '' , was released in 2011 . It was announced as " Best of Festival " at the Arlington International Film Festival held in Arlington , Massachusetts in October 2012 . Another short documentary , honoring victims of lynchings in the south , including Rembert who is the " only known survivor of a lynching , " premiered at the Mountainfilm Festival on May 24 , 2019 Winfred Rembert was born on November 22 , 1945 , in Cuthbert , Randolph County , in the US state Georgia . Raised by his aunt after his mother cheated on her husband , he worked in the cotton fields , making as little as 20 cents per day . Him laboring , in fact , caused him to miss school only two days a week ( he could not read or write until high school ) . But with more tension in the racism around his neighborhood , he cut school at the age of 16
Arlington International Film Festival
Arlington International Film Festival
Winfred Rembert