The Women In Film in Park City Program is pleased to announce that FREEDOM RIDERS, produced by Laurens Grant, has been chosen for docuweeks! Laurens was one of the panelists at our 2010 Sundance Film Festival program.
FREEDOM RIDERS screens as part of the International Documentary Association [IDA]'s 14th annual DocuWeeks™, a documentary theatrical showcase designed to qualify films for consideration for the Academy Awards. This year's selected films are a strong lineup of 17 features and 5 shorts to screen in New York City and Los Angeles. For more information on the screening CLICK HERE.
FREEDOM RIDERS is the first feature-length documentary to tell the story of a courageous band of civil rights activists who risked death by daring to defy the laws of Jim Crow in the Deep South in 1961. They were America's first inter-racial and inter-religious mass movement to challenge segregation in bus and train facilities. Because of their efforts, the signs "whites only" and "colored only" were taken down forever. To visit the film's website CLICK HERE.
The film is also scheduled to air on PBS' acclaimed American Experience series in May 2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1961 freedom rides.
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