Indy Shorts Film Festival 2021

The Fight For Justice

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7 films in package
Department Of Injustice
To contact the U.S. Department of Justice please dial 202-514-2000. If you are seeking justice for a victim of police violence, enter ext. #400
RESIST: The Resistance Revival Chorus
In the midst of a country divided, a diverse group of women and non-binary individuals unite through the historic power of music to create a movement ignited by song.
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The Torture Letters
From unjustified stops of Black teenagers to planned torture in police in custody, police violence runs deep.
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The Felling of Colston
Award-winning documentary chronicling the felling of the statue of Edward Colston–a 17th Century slave trader–during a Black Lives Matter protest in Bristol, England.
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enough.
A dream, a nightmare, a musical. Ten years in the making, welcome to the stormy inner world of one Congolese-American coming of age in the US.
October 27th, 2020
October 27, 2020 was the second night of protests in Philadelphia over the killing of Walter Wallace, Jr. He had a bipolar episode and was shot by cops. Wallace died with 12 bullets in his body in front of his mother. This is a video documentation of some of the protests that night.
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Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd
The police murder of George Floyd sparked a global uprising, the epicenter of the civil unrest, captured in real time, revealing a community's reaction to the systematic racial injustice that was witnessed world-wide.
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Despite decades of nominal change, the fight for Black lives rages on.


Films: Department of Injustice; RESIST: The Resistance Revival Chorus; The Torture Letters; The Felling of Colston; enough.; October 27th, 2020; Say His Name: Five Days for George Floyd


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One of Ralph’s first memories of the police is when a plainclothes officer harassed his family. Now a Princeton anthropology professor, Ralph traces his story to the entrenched practices of torture by the police. The Torture Letters focuses on what it means to be policed in America today.


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Film Contact:

Laurence Ralph

lralph@princeton.edu

  • Year
    2020
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Rating
    Violence
  • Note
    Animated Short
  • Director
    Laurence Ralph
  • Screenwriter
    Laurence Ralph
  • Producer
    Laurence Ralph
  • Executive Producer
    Adam Ellick (NYT Op-Docs Executive Producer)
  • Cast
    Laurence Ralph, Sofia Ralph, Semai Ralph
  • Animator
    Jocie Juritz
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