The Human Rights Watch Film Festival
June 11-21, 2015
New York’s Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center
Manhattan
Through the Human Rights Watch Film Festival we bear witness to human rights violations and create a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. This year’s festival will present 16 films from across the globe that celebrate the power of individuals and communities to effect change.
Schomburg Director Khalil Gibran Muhammad will moderate the opening night post-screening discussion of 3 ½ Minutes: 10 Bullets on June 12. To purchase tickets for this event, click here.
In November 2012 in Jacksonville, Florida, four unarmed African-American teenagers stopped at a gas station to buy gum and cigarettes. When a middle-aged white man parked beside them, an altercation began over the volume of rap music playing in the teens’ car. In a matter of moments, Michael Dunn fired 10 bullets into their car, killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis instantly. Directed by Marc Silver (Who Is Dayani Cristal?), 3½ Minutes: Ten Bullets is a seamlessly constructed, riveting documentary that explores the danger and subjectivity of Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense laws. The film weaves Dunn’s trial with Jordan Davis’s parents’ wrenching experiences in and out of the courtroom. The result is a powerful story about the devastating effects of racial bias and the search for justice within the U.S. legal system. As the deaths of Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Eric Garner galvanize the public and begin to shape national dialogue and policy, the intimate and moving 3½ Minutes: Ten Bullets brings the conversation back home—to the impact felt by families across the country for whom reform can’t come fast enough. A Participant Media release.
Post-screening panel with Marc Silver, Orlando Bagwell, and Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, moderated by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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