Date/Time
Date(s) - Feb 21 2012
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Location
Norwood Club

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Slavery and the Law
A film by Paula Heredia
Produced by Larry Garvin
Executive Produced by
Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes and Joan Gabbidon.

Slavery and the Law depicts important events, people, and legal decisions that have shaped the legacy of slavery and racial discrimination in society today. Director Paula Heredia weaves interviews with scholars with a group of African-American teenagers in Brooklyn, who explore the history of slavery and the law by creating a mural. The film portrays the law as a living process to enforce, as well as a force redress oppression. Knowledge about the past flows seamlessly into hope for the future.  The film’s lessons are clear: in learning about the past, we can see that laws are not forever written in stone, but that people ­ can change the laws.

Paula Heredia is an award-winning Salvadoran filmmaker, internationally acclaimed for her work in documentary films. Paula was awarded with an Emmy for the HBO documentary In Memoriam, NYC 9/11/01and an ACE Eddie Award for the acclaimed documentary Unzipped. Her directorial work includes the documentaries: George Plimpton and the Paris Review, Ralph Gibson-Photographer and The Couple in the Cage. Her short fiction film La Pajara Pinta, which was shot on location in the mountains of El Salvador, and premiered at the Lincoln Center Film Society LatinBeat Film Festival and went to be shown in festivals around the world. For her documentary, Africa Rising, Paula was awarded the “Best Woman Director” at the International Documentary Festival in Soria, Spain and was picked up for distribution by Women Make Movies. In her home country of El Salvador, Paula heads the program Digital Cinema of Casa Clementina (www.casaclementina.org), which provides professional development and opportunities for an emerging group of Central American filmmakers in the production of digital films for regional and international distribution.

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