THE SAFIYA BUKHARI-ALBERT NUH WASHINGTON FOUNDATION

in conjunction with

THE MAYSLES CINEMA

343 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Blvd. (127^th/128^thstreets,) Harlem, NY

PRESENT:

THE THIRD ANNUAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY FILM FESTIVAL

“We want Land, Bread, Housing, Education, Clothing, Justice and Peace”

Contact: William Johnson: 718-681-0814 * Cinema: 212-582-6050 x 221

From Wednesday, December 8^th through Monday, December 13^th the historic 3^rd Annual Black Panther Film Festival (produced by the Black Panther Party Commemoration Committee) presents a stunning and varied showcase of films combining archival footage of the Black Panthers from the 60's & 70’s with modern documentaries showing the legacy of the Panthers through current issues such as the case of Death Row Journalist (and former Black Panther) Mumia Abu-Jamal and The Black August Hip Hop Cultural Movement. Following each screening distinguished speakers (from the Panther party itself) will hold discussions with the audience.

• Festival highlights include “Eldridge Cleaver-Black Panther” - an historic 75-minute, 1969 interview with the Minister of Information while a fugitive in Algiers;

• “Fred Hampton: Black Panthers in Chicago”- an archival 30 minute October 1969 interview with the 21-year-old Deputy Chair of the BPP Illinois Chapter some 30 days before his assassination by Chicago police;

• and brand new documentaries like the concert film “Black August” and “Justice on Trial” a new film presenting the real evidence in Mumia Abu Jamal’s capital case.

• Another interesting highlight is “Aoki” about a Japanese-American who was placed with his family in an interment camp during World War II and ended up becoming a high ranking official within the Black Panther Party.

• In The Land of the Free...” This 2010 documentary (narrated by Samuel L. Jackson) 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 for decades in the biggest prison in the U.S., an 18,000-acre former slave plantation known as Angola.

• Of particular significance and importance – “Cointelpro 101” is an educational documentary about the FBI’s illegal counter intelligence program that involved surveillance, framings and assassinations of leaders in the BPP and The American Indian Movement and others. Q& A with Ward Churchill following this film.

For a Full Film and Speaker schedule log onto www.mayslesinstitute.org