Justice On Trial Film Festival

The Gathering

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Monday, September 21st Schedule (PDT)

5:30 p.m. | Welcome

5:40 p.m. | Short Film
Hidden Lives

5:45 p.m. | Short Film
The Trouble with Long Prison Terms
by Justice Policy Institute, Open Society Foundations, BRAVE NEW FILMS

5:50 p.m. | Screening
The Gathering

6:25 p.m. | Performance
Aloe Blacc

6:30 p.m. | Panel

7:15 p.m. | Encore Screening
The Gathering

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The Gathering

Directed By: Micki Dickoff

Screening: September 21, 2020 5:30 pm

Running Time: 24 minutes

Evening ScheduleSpeakers

Meet 16 exonerees, a diverse group brought together by a common experience, a unique family to whom no one chooses to belong. They bare their souls, forever changed by the degradation they suffered. The Gathering tells the story of Witness to Innocence, the largest organization of death row exonerees in the country.

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Monday, September 21st Schedule (PDT)

5:30 p.m. | Welcome

5:40 p.m. | Short Film
Hidden Lives

5:45 p.m. | Short Film
The Trouble with Long Prison Terms
by Justice Policy Institute, Open Society Foundations, BRAVE NEW FILMS

5:50 p.m. | Screening
The Gathering

6:25 p.m. | Performance
Aloe Blacc

6:30 p.m. | Panel

7:15 p.m. | Encore Screening
The Gathering

Speakers

Nate Parker

Nate Parker is an award-winning actor, writer, director and producer, who has played lead characters in films including Beyond The Lights, Red Tails, The Secret Life of Bees, Arbitrage, and Pride.

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Talitha LeFlouria

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is a scholar of African American history, and the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South.

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Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts is the author of three collections of poetry and a memoir. Felon, his latest collection of poetry, will be published in October 2019 by W.W. Norton. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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