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Injustice benefit screening - Birmingham: Sat 19th March 2005

Indy Brum Volunteer | 15.03.2005 14:31 | Birmingham

Benefit Screening of the powerful film banned by Channel 4 and the BBC
+ Q&A event with families & filmmakers + live hip hop, poetry & sounds and music.

Saturday 19th March 2005 (Film starts at 7.30pm - music till late)
Coach & Horses, 162 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham B12.

Bus: 35 or 50

I N J U S T I C E

(98minutes/2001/Cert:15)

'Injustice' is a radical documentary about the struggles for justice by the
families of people that have died in police custody in the UK.
Now showing for its third successive year.

** Winner Best Documentary - BFM London Film Festival 2002 **
** Winner National Social Justice Award 2003 **
** Winner Best Documentary (Human Rights) - One World Film Festival 2003**
**Winner New Nation Campaign Group of the Year Award 2004**

Benefit Screening of the powerful film banned by Channel 4 and the BBC
+ Q&A event with families & filmmakers + live hip hop, poetry & sounds and music by:

Hillz Yungsterz
(Hip Hop rappers includes 'Injustice' track)
shortMAN
(Urban Poetry Performance includes 'Thin Justice' )
Princess Emmanuelle
(Hip Hop Poetry Performance includes 'Unjust' )
Super Ape
(Music & sounds till late)

Saturday 19th March 2005
(Film starts at 7.30pm - music till late)
Coach & Horses,
162 Mary Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham B12.
Bus: 35 or 50

Entrance by donation.
Info: 07770 432 439 or 07811483324

 http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk


"a rousing hymn to united struggle " Time Out - Critics' Choice

"one of the most powerful films ever made in this country" The Guardian

For more information on INJUSTICE  http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk

INJUSTICE - THE FILM THAT REFUSES TO DIE!

Indy Brum Volunteer


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background

15.03.2005 15:04

maybe you could post up some background to this film for imc readers seeing as how the police tried to get screenings banned.

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background info. from the injustice website

20.03.2005 20:56

Injustice is a documentary feature film that follows the struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody. Between 1969 and 1999 over one thousand people died in police custody in England. Not one police officer has ever been convicted for any of these deaths. Injustice depicts how Brian Douglas, Joy Gardner, Shiji Lapite and Ibrahima Sey met violent deaths at the hands of the police and documents a five year period when their families came together to fight for the truth.

Injustice took seven years to produce. Since its launch in July 2001 the police have tried to censor the film. The Police Federation and individual police officers threatened legal action at cinemas and at the film makers who refused to stop screening the film and instead took it on a national tour showing it anywhere they could. The audience took over one cinema and projected the film when the cinema manager, under threat of the police, refused to. Critically acclaimed in its own right, Injustice also gained news coverage across all national channels as well as on CNN.

 http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/filmfacts.html

If legal justice fails, street justice will prevail


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