Cinema Verde 14th Annual Festival
Cinema Verde 14th Annual Festival
Thu, Feb 9, 2023 12:00 AM EST (-05:00)
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Night 2: "Belly of the Beast" - Justice on Trial Film Festival 2020
The Justice on Trial Film Festival is a 5-day online event that exposes the injustice of mass incarceration and explores systemic solutions.
When and where
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
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See you there at 4:30 pm PST | 7:30 pm EST
Special Private Screening: Belly of the Beast - Directed by Erika Cohn
Told through currently and formerly incarcerated women and their legal teams, Belly of the Beast chronicles the journey of those struggling to expose illegal sterilizations presently occurring in U.S. prisons.
The Justice On Trial Film Festival (JOTFF) grew out of a conversation between award-winning author Michelle Alexander and Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project.
JOTFF speaks to the challenges of people caught up in the judicial system. They know only too well the pain and injustice—the jail house beatings, the solitary confinement, the stop-and-frisk humiliations, the selective prosecutions with bad plea bargains, and the unreasonably long sentences that they suffer. They are painfully familiar with the school-to-prison pipeline that puts so many young people, particularly those of color, at risk. But their voices are often unheard beyond their own communities. The film festival creates an opportunity to project their voices to a world deafened by the negative images and stereotypes presented by the media.