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Black Panther Party Film Fest 4: In the Land of the Free
The Sixth Annual Black Panther Party Film Festival
(Friday, September 26th - Saturday, September 27th
and Friday, October 3rd - Saturday, Oct 4th)
Remembering our political prisoners over 800 years in captivity
Produced by the Black Panther Commemoration Committee, NY in conjunction with Maysles Cinema
Friday, October 3rd, 7:00pm
Voice of Liberation: Jalil Abdul Muntaqim
Eve Goldberg and Claude Marks, 2002, 20 min.
Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (formerly Anthony Bottom) was 19 years old when he was arrested. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, and is one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. This documentary is a unique opportunity to hear Jalil's story. While in San Quentin prison in California in 1976, Jalil launched the National Prisoners Campaign to Petition the United Nations to recognize the existence of political prisoners in the United States and in 1997 Jalil initiated the Jericho Movement. Over 6,000 supporters gathered in the Jericho '98 march in Washington DC and the Bay Area to demand amnesty for US political prisoners on the basis of international law. The Jericho Amnesty Movement aims to gain the recognition by the U.S. government and the United Nations that political prisoners exist in this country and that on the basis of international law, they should be granted amnesty because of the political nature of their cases.
In the Land of the Free
Vadim Jean, 2010, 84 min.
This 2010 documentary (narrated by Samuel L. Jackson) is about the Angola 3, three prisoners who while serving their time in Angola State Prison (the United States' most notorious penal colony) joined the BPP and participated in non-violent resistance campaigns protesting the terrible conditions, prisoner abuse and sexual slavery rampant inside the prison. As a result they were falsely accused of murder while in prison and have all been, with the exception of Robert King who was released in 2001, serving the last 38 years in solitary confinement.
Tribute to the late Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, with Herman's House filmmaker Angad Bhalla.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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