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Reel Justice Film Conference - NYC

Bronx, NY

April 29, 2009 09:00AM to April 30, 2009 08:30PM

Hosted by Working Films

Event Description:

Reel Justice: A Film Conference on Police Brutality & Violence Against Women
Presented by Working Films

April 29-30, 2009
Lehman College, Bronx, NY

Speakers / Facilitators

• Andrea Richie - Sex Workers Project, Director
• Rosa Clemente - Campaign Manager, Immigrant Rights Project, Amnesty International
• Quentin Walcott - Connect, NYC
• Leymah Gwobee – Liberian activist, Pray the Devil Back to Hell
• Kevin Powell – author/ activist
• Asha Bandele – writer and activist
• Kamau Franklin - Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, National Coordinating Committee
• King Downing - ACLU, former director Anti-Racial Profiling Project
• Tami Gold – producer, Every Mother’s Son
• Iris Baez – mother of Anthony Baez, Every Mother’s Son
• Phyllis Clayborne– mother of Timothy Stansbury, Bullets in the Hood (pending)
• Angela Jones - NYCLU, Schools to Prisons Pipeline
• Rod Star - Rebel Diaz
• M1 - Dead Prez

Films
Every Mother's Son
Bullets In The Hood: A Bed Stuy Story
If 5-0 Shoots
HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Justifiable Homicide
Long Night's Journey Into Day
Policia Mineira

Location:
Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West

Questions? Email the Host





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