The Trials of Muhammad Ali - an incredible new documentary - this Friday at The Film Co-op

[Don Tingle]

The Film Co-op presents 

"The Trials of Muhammad Ali" 

a new and powerful documentary about one of the Champs biggest fights.
February 28th, 7pm in the 1st Floor Connector at the Lowe Mill and Flying Monkey Arts Center  

We are a producing partner with Community Cinema

FREE 

 

sponsored by 

the Film Co-op, Lowe Mill, Flying Monkey Arts, APTV and Community Cinema

Here's a trailer about this film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF_jh3_p_gw

An incredible new documentary - 

description from the Lowe Mill Arts & Entertainment newsletter:  

Community Cinema is a groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative featuring free monthly screenings of films from the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens and other PBS presentations. Community Cinema is on location in more than 95 cities nationally, bringing together leading organizations, community members, and public television stations to learn, discuss, and get involved in key social issues of our time.

Prior to becoming the most recognizable face on earth, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and found himself in the crosshairs of conflicts concerning civil rights, religion, and wartime dissent. The fury he faced from an American public enraged by his opposition to the Vietnam War and unwilling to accept his conversion to Islam, has global implications for generations now coming of age amidst contemporary fissures involving freedom, faith and military conflict.

Additional stories about Muhammad Ali in the news this weekend:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/23/50-years-later-the-molding-of-cassius-clay-into-muhammad-ali/

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/23/gloves-muhammad-ali-wore-when-he-beat-sonny-liston-fetch-860500-at-auction/