Jason Green is the director and co-producer of The Quince Orchard Project, which produced the documentary “Finding Fellowship.” It recently aired on PBS and is available until January 31, 2024.

Green, who has deep roots in Montgomery County, discussed the film in an interview with WDC member Fatmata Barrie in a recent event. Green knew that his family had lived in Quince Orchard—an area that cannot be found on any map—for generations. It was a small community of Black and white farms, segregated but financially dependent, with a unique camaraderie.

In 1868, several Black residents purchased three acres of land from a white seller and built Pleasant View Methodist Church and a school for their children. One hundred years later, on the day that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Pleasant View Church members met to discuss a merger with two nearby Methodist churches whose members were white. All three churches had financial problems and could not even afford a full-time pastor. After agreeing to come together, the members of the three churches constructed a new building.

In “Finding Fellowship,” Green addresses the ups and downs of this new church over the last quarter of a century. Expanding on the title of the documentary, he also chronicles the many wide-ranging changes that have occurred within the community, including the recent paving of the dirt road where Jason had lived, that is now called Fellowship Lane.

Read more about Green’s project to remember his community here.

“Finding Fellowship” recently aired on PBS and is available for viewing through next January. Read about the film here.