Documentary Screening - 13th
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FREE SCREENING
Academy Awards nominee for Best Documentary.
2017 NAACP Image Awards Winner – Outstanding Documentary
BAFTA Winner – Best Documentary
From Slave to Criminal with One Amendment.
13TH strikes at the heart of America's tangled racial history, offering observations as incendiary as they are calmly controlled.
America makes up 5% of the world's population, yet locks up 25% of the world's prisoners. 40% are black men.
The title of Ava DuVernay's extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States." The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.
With thanks to Netflix & Kandoofilms for approving this screening.
100 mins
Ava DuVernay on the legacy of slavery: ‘The sad truth is that some minds will not be changed’ – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/06/ava-duvernay-legacy-slavery-selma-oscars-13th-trump-era-america-racist-past-award
Ava DuVernay's Documentary "13th" About Mass Incarceration Shortlisted for an Oscar –https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/30/ava_duvernays_documentary_13th_about_mass
Ava DuVernay's 13th Reframes American History – http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/10/ava-duvernay-13th-netflix/503075/
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