Festival Films
Directed By: Madeleine Sackler
Screening: September 28, 2019 1:00 pm
Running Time: 107 minutes
O.G. follows Louis (Jeffrey Wright), once the head of a prominent prison gang, in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence. His impending release is upended when he takes new arrival Beecher (Theothus Carter), who is being courted by gang leadership, under his wing. Coming to grips with the indelibility of his crime and the challenge of reentering society, Louis finds his freedom hanging in the balance as he struggles to save Beecher. Groundbreaking in being filmed at an actual prison, with many of the men incarcerated there cast in acting roles, O.G. takes an intimate and unflinching look at the journey of one man at the precipice of freedom.
Saturday, September 28th Schedule (PDT)
11:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks
Sen. Holly Mitchell
11:20 a.m. | Short Film
What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?
12:00 p.m. | Book Talk: Talitha/Leflouria/Lunch
1:00 p.m. | Screening
In Pursuit of Justice
O.G.
Dilemma
2:00 p.m. | Screening
Trouble Finds You
Stop
The Chains on Edward Bailey
2:50 p.m. | Short Film
Anti Recidivism Coalition
3:15 p.m. | Screening
American Skin
It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t it
Healing Trauma
