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The Interrupters (plus panel after Aug 5 screening)
One Week Theatrical Engagement! Steve James' documentary film, 'The Interrupters', trails Ameena, Cobe, and Eddie, three workers for Ceasefire, an organization with a rather unique response to violence. As "Violence Interrupters" for the initiative, the three intervene and stop violence at its source. August 5th Screening followed by a Q&A with local Harlem violence interrupters and more! (see details below)
"The Interrupters"
(Dir. Steve James, 2011, 125 min.)
Winner of the Special Jury Award at the Sheffield Doc/Fest, The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three "Violence Interrupters" who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. From acclaimed director Steve James and bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz (There Are No Children Here), this film is an unusually intimate journey into the stubborn persistence of violence in our cities. Shot over the course of a year out of Kartemquin Films, The Interrupters captures a period in Chicago when it became a national symbol for the violence in our cities. The city was besieged by high-profile incidents, most notably the brutal beating of Derrion Albert, a Chicago High School student, whose death was caught on videotape.
The film's main subjects, Ameena, Cobe and Eddie work for an innovative organization, CeaseFire, which believes that the spread of violence mimics the spread of infectious diseases, and so the treatment should be similar: go after the most infected, and stop the infection at its source. The singular mission of the "Violence Interrupters"who have credibility on the streets because of their own personal historiesis to intervene in conflicts before they explode into violence. The Interrupters follows these three "Violence Interrupters" as they go about their work, and while doing so reveals their own inspired journeys of hope and redemption. "A gut-wrenching documentary" says Manohla Dargis of The New York Times.
A Cinema Guild release
Q&A following the Friday, August 5th screening with Operation S.N.U.G.'s (modeled after Chicago's Ceasefire) Robin Holmes (Project Director of Operations), Karim Chapman (Outreach Worker Supervisor), Courtney Bennett (Community of Government Relations for The New York Mission Society), and local, Harlem based violence interrupters.
Profile of S.N.U.G: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110118/harlem/program-employs-exgang-members-help-stop-violence-on-harlem-streets
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10027
United States
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