The next HIC film will be on Thursday 30th October and as usual doors will open at 7pm and the films will start at 7.15pm.
We will be showing two incredible films. The first film is Ken Faro's new film BURN. Ken produced the film INJUSTICE a few years ago, which caused great panic for the state and was banned by British television. The subject matter was the murder by the UK police of a number of (mainly Black) men and women over the last decade or so. One of the issues BURN deals with is uprising that began in Tottenham in August 2011. But, it deals with much more - see below.
Then we will be showing the acclaimed film FRUITVALE STATION. Again, see below for a full description of the film.
Ken Fero and Graeme Burke (the son of Joy Gardner) will be in attendance at the screenings and will be happy to engage with the audience on issues that emerge.
All the normal details re price and venue - see our website for details - http://www.haringey.org.uk/hic/
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BURN
Running time: 30 minutes
In August 2011 Britain was on fire - what was the spark that led to the crisis? When Mark Duggan was shot, unarmed, by the police, the scene was set for a confrontation -- but it was not the first time. In this grass-roots documentary, we hear why Tottenham burned, show how the flames spread and look at the deep-rooted reasons that have set fires blazing over the last three decades. Four people in this small community, all black and working class, have died at the hands of the police, and this film retraces their story. Powerful witness testimonies are balanced against police reaction to the violence that exploded, and the film offers a fresh political analysis of the cause of the uprising. Exploring ideas of collective memory BURN is poetry for the people.
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FRUITVALE STATION
Running time: 85 minutes
Cert 15
It is hard to do justice in words to the cinematic, emotional and political experience that is FRUITVALE STATION. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Best First Film Award at Cannes the same year, this is a film which, for all its massive and widespread acclaim, has not been seen by nearly enough people. This is unfortunate, given the fact that we are still living in a society in which events such as the ones depicted in the film – the unprovoked state-sanctioned murder of young, working-class black men and women – is a regular (and seemingly unpunishable) occurrence. Director Ryan Coogler charts, in alternately funny, moving and shocking detail, the last day on the planet of Oscar Grant (played by WIRE star Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old son, friend, partner and father of one little girl, who was shot dead, unarmed, by subway police at Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California in the early hours of New
Year’s Day 2009. The film reveals him as an ordinarily flawed and complex human being, and skilfully draws the audience into the ups and downs of his difficult but ultimately love-filled life, even as we know that by the end of the film he will be dead.
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