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February 2, 2010
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.
There are three screenings of In The Land Of The Free":
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.
http://sbiff.org/main/
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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37 years ago in Louisiana, 3 young black men were silenced for trying
to expose continued segregation, systematic corruption, and horrific
abuse in the biggest prison in the US, an 18,000-acre former slave
plantation called Angola. In 1972 and 1973 prison officials charged
Herman Wallace, Albert Woodfox, and Robert King with murders they did
not commit and threw them into 6x9 ft. cells in solitary confinement,
for over 36 years. Robert was freed in 2001, but Herman and Albert
remain behind bars.
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