This short is a part of
Southern Foodways Alliance: New Works by Joe York

Food Films

Deadliest Throw

This excerpt from the forthcoming feature-length doc, Southern Food: The Movie, chronicles the rise and fall of the lowly mullet, a small fish of the Gulf Coast region that is as loved by many as it is ridiculed by others. Here we get an in-depth look at the annual FloraBama Interstate Mullet Toss, a dead mullet-flinging contest held on the Alabama-Florida border.