In The Land of The Free (15)
Post screening Q & A with director Vadim Jean
Thu 20 May, 6.30pm
Cinema £6.50 (£5.25)
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CloseDir: Vadim Jean
US 2010 85mins
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson (narrator)
The shocking and unbelievable story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana who were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison in the US, and 18,000 acre former slave plantation known as Angola.
Woodfox and Wallace, founding members of the first prison chapter of the Black Panther Party, worked along with King to speak out against the inhumane treatment and radical segregation in the prison. King was released in 2001 after almost thirty years of solitary confinement. Woodfox and Wallace convicted in the highly contested stabbing death of white prison guard Brent Miller, remain in Angola where they have spent more than thirty-six years in solitary confinement.
Made aware of their plight, Congress-man John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, visited Wallace and Woodfox in prison in March 2008. This documentary tells the ongoing story of the case of these three extraordinary men.
Q & A with director Vadim Jean following the screening.
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