Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
In 1981, Mumia Abu Jamal was charged with murdering a police officer and sentenced to death. He awaited execution in his cell for 30 years, becoming in the process "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate" according to the New York Times.
Born in Philadelphia in 1954, he was a journalist and active member of the Black Panther Party for a number of years. In 1981, during a traffic stop, he was charged with murdering police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He awaited execution in his cell for 30 years, becoming in the process "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate" according to the New York Times. He remains incarcerated to this day, but his sentence was recently commuted to life imprisonment.
We are of course talking about Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook), the star of this brilliant documentary that sheds light on his life before and after he was imprisoned. Unprecedented confessions behind bars, exclusive interviews with political figures and intellectuals, as well as death penalty advocates who believe the black activist should be executed, trace the outlines of a huge issue that’s still in the forefront of American society. Is Mumia a political convict, charged with a crime he didn’t commit just to shut him up, or is he nothing but a murderer? K.Th.
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Πρωτότυπος τίτλος / Original title: Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Σκηνοθεσία / Director: Stephen Vittoria
Σενάριο / Screenwriter: Stephen Vittoria
Φωτογραφία / DoP: Erik Sorensen
Μουσική / Music: Robert Guillory
Μοντάζ / Editor: Erik Sorensen, Stephen Vittoria
Εμφανίζονται / Featuring: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Rubin Carter, Peter Coyote
ΗΠΑ / USA
2012
Εγχρωμο / Color
120'
Αγγλικά / English
* Screens on 23rd September
