Screening of "Fruitvale Station" Thursday 29th May 2014‏

[Zhana Books]

Greetings, everyone.  Details of this event are below.  

Kind regards, 

Zhana 

The New Black Film Collective London*  presents  'Fruitvale Station'.    Produced by Forest Whitaker, the multiple Independent Spirit Award, Cannes and Sundance Film Festival winning film follows the true story of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a 22-year-old Oakland, CA resident who wakes up on the morning of 31st December 2008 and feels something in the air. 

In the wake of the Mark Duggan verdict, the Trayvon Martin shooting and the George Zimmerman trial, come an epic story of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old man shot in the back by transit police. The story of the events is portrayed in 'Fruitvale Station'.   

Thursday 29th May 2014 @ 8.30pm Stratford Picturehouse, Stratford, London  E15  

AND in the wake of this video taken at the scene, check out this article:  a man was beaten and arrested for recording the police on his cellphone.  You think you live in a free country?  

http://www.kulturekritic.com/2013/04/news/man-recording-cops-told-his-cell-phone-is-a-weapon-so-they-beat-and-arrest-him/