Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Angola 3 Film Showing at Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival London


We are pleased to announce that the documentary about the Angola 3 titled ‘In The Land Of The Free…’ is going to be shown at:

This Year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Thursday 11th February at 08.00am at Metro 4 Theatre III
Saturday 13th February at 1.30pm at Metro 4 Theatre III
Sunday 14th February at 10.30am at Metro 4 Theatre III

To find out more and buy tickets please visit the Santa Barbara International Film Festival website.


This year’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival in London.


Wednesday 24th March at 7.00pm at The Ritzy, Brixton Oval, London
Thursday 25th March at 6.30pm at Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London

To find out more please visit the Human Rights Watch Film Festival website. And why not sign up for the latest news at In The Land Of The Free website.

We hope to bring you the details of more screenings in due course.

In The Land Of The Free…

In The Land Of The Free tells the shocking and unbelievable story of Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox and Robert King, three black men from rural Louisiana who were held in solitary confinement in the biggest prison in the U.S., an 18,000-acre former slave plantation known as Angola. Woodfox and Wallace, founding members of the first prison chapter of the Black Panther Party, worked along with King to speak out against the inhumane treatment and racial segregation in the prison. King was released in 2001 after almost thirty years of solitary confinement. Woodfox and Wallace, convicted in the highly contested stabbing death of white prison guard Brent Miller, remain in Angola where they have spent more than thirty-six years in solitary confinement. Made aware of their plight, Congressman John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, visited Wallace and Woodfox in prison in March 2008. This documentary tells the ongoing story of the case of these three extraordinary men.

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