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Black Panther Party Film Fest 5: Passion for Justice and Mountains that Take Wing
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
Saturday, October 4th, 4:00pm
Passion for Justice
Pat Saunders and Rea Taijiri, 1994, 57 min.
Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American woman who has lived in Harlem for more than 40 years with a long history of activism on a wide range of issues. Through extensive interviews with family and friends, archival footage, music and photographs, Passion for Justice chronicles this remarkable woman's contribution to social change through some of the most significant events of the 20th century, including the Black Liberation movement, the struggle for Puerto Rican independence, and the Japanese American Redress movement. In an era of divided communities and racial conflict, Kochiyama offers an outstanding example of an equitable and compassionate multiculturalist vision.
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
C.A. Griffith & H.L.T. Quan, 2009, 97 min.
Mountains That Take Wing features conversations that span 13 years between two formidable women whose lives and political work remain at the epicenter of the most important civil rights struggles in the US. Through the intimacy and depth of conversations, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar-activist and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee's shared experiences as political prisoners and their profound passion for justice. On subjects ranging from the vital but largely erased role of women in social movements of the 20th century, community empowerment, to the prison industrial complex, war and the cultural arts, Davis' and Kochiyama's comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation's most important social movements and tremendous hope for its youth and the future.
Post-screening Q&A TBA.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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