BLACKOUT For Human Rights and AFFRM will host a free screening of “Middle of Nowhere,” “25 To Life,” and “Fruitvale Station,” in Los Angeles this Friday, November 28.
The screening will be held at the Downtown Independent and is free to the public. Blackout is a nationwide network of high profile artists, activists and faith leaders, who stand against human rights violations perpetrated against US citizens by public servants. The event is meant to bring awareness to the Ferguson protests as an alternative to Black Friday shopping and will be moderated by AFFRM founder and award winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
WHERE: Downtown Independent
251S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
WHEN: Friday, November 28
3:00 PM FRUITVALE STATION
5:00 PM MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
7:00 PM 25 TO LIFE
Check out a new clip from “25 To Life” below:
In New York, a group of directors and actors will participate in a special screenplay reading of Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing.” “The free event, this Friday at 7PM will take place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center Amphitheater. If you’re in the area, free tickets for the reading will be distributed at the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center box office one hour before the screening,” HitFix reported.
Blackout member Ryan Coogler said in a statement:
In keeping with Blackout (for Human Rights’) theme of making Friday November 28 a day of activism over consumerism, we thought that doing a screenplay reading of Spike Lee’s classic with a contemporary cast would be a great way to give people an alternative to shopping … New York is the city the whole country looks to for cultural leadership and with the recent human rights violations committed against New York citizens Eric Garner [a Staten Island resident recently chokeholed to death by a police officer] and Akai Gurley [accidentally shot by police in his Brooklyn apartment complex earlier this month], we felt that this story of how New Yorker’s viewed and treated each other 25 years ago is just as relevant now as it was then.
