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Black Panther Party Film Fest 3: Let the Fire Burn
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, September 27th - 7:00pm
But You Can't Kill a Revolution
17 min.
A TV network investigation team visits a small Louisiana town to film racial profiling and the police killing of an unarmed grandfather on his porch. There they find out that the town is also home to the grave of Black Panther Party Leader, Fred Hampton, and the dynamic Illinois State Chapter Chairman. Hampton was killed in an illegal Chicago police raid in 1969. Activists around the world remember "Chairman Fred", but so does the Klu Klux Klan. "You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution! You can kill a revolutionary, but you can't kill the revolution!!!" - Fred Hampton
Manufacturing Guilt
Stephen Vittoria, 2013, 40 min.
Manufacturing Guilt, the short film from Stephen Vittoria, producer and director of Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary, takes on the colossus of Abu-Jamal's contentious case, distilling a mountain of evidence and years of oft-repeated falsehoods to the most fundamental elements of police and prosecutorial misconduct that illustrate a clear and conscious effort to frame Mumia Abu-Jamal for the murder of patrolman Daniel Faulkner. Based on the actual record of investigations and court filings from 1995 to 2003evidence denied by the courts and ignored in the press--Manufacturing Guilt cuts through the years of absurdities and overt racism to produce a clear picture of how Abu-Jamal's guilt was manufactured and his innocence suppressed beginning only moments after he and Faulkner were found shot in the early morning hours of December 9th, 1981. This historic and courageous film is the perfect companion to Long Distance Revolutionary a film that is unequivocal in its force regarding Abu-Jamal's innocence.
Let the Fire Burn
Jason Osder, 2013, 95 Min.
A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985. In the astonishingly gripping Let the Fire Burn, director Jason Osder has crafted that rarest of cinematic objects: a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a great thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. By order of local authorities, police dropped military-grade explosives onto a MOVE-occupied rowhouse. TV cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalatedand resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to "...let the fire burn." Using only archival news coverage and interviews, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.
Q&A with Ramona Africa, activist and Move bombing survivor and Keith Cook, Mumia Abu-Jamal's brother and moderated by BPP Member Shabaom.
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LocationMaysles Cinema (View)
343 Lenox Ave.
New York City, NY 10027
United States
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