BET To Air Shola Lynch‘s Free Angela and All Political Prisoners On Feb. 26Posted by Wilson Morales
February 21, 2014
BET continues to celebrate Black History Month and showcase the range, richness and diversity of the African-American experience with the broadcast network premiere of FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS—Premieres, Wednesday, February 26 at 10:00 P.M. ET/PT on BET. The Political-crime-drama Documentary, will kick off BET’s New Movie programming block “Keeping It Reel” airing every Wednesday night.
Hailed by the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival as “a fascinating chronicle of justice and strength,” FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS tells the dramatic story of how a young professor’s social justice activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a bloody shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
In this historical vérité style documentary, marking the 40th anniversary of her acquittal on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, Angela Davis recounts the politics and actions that branded her a terrorist and simultaneously spurred a worldwide movement for her freedom as a political prisoner. At its core, the story wrestles with the meaning of political freedom in a democracy negotiated between the people and its government. Strong, attractive, and engaging, Angela Davis is one such person who became a symbol at the center of this still relevant power struggle.
FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS is a film by Shola Lynch, presented by Realside Productions, Black Entertainment Television Networks and De Films en Aiguille, in association with Direct Cinema and the participation of Direct 8, with major support from La Region Ile-de-France, Canal Plus and the Ford Foundation Produced by Carole Lambert, Shola Lynch, Carine Ruszniewski, and Sidra Smith. Directed and written by Shola Lynch. Executive Producers Overbrook Entertainment and Roc Nation. FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS was distributed theatrically by Codeblack Films a Lionsgate company.
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