Shola Lynch
4/7/2015
4:00 pm
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Crafting a Narrative for a Historical Documentary - The Making of Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
Shola Lynch is an award-winning American Filmmaker best known for the feature documentary FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners and the Peabody Award winning documentary CHISHOLM ’72: Unbought & Unbossed.
The feature documentary FREE ANGELA & All Political Prisoners is a first hand account of the events that thrust Angela Davis into the national spotlight from a young college professor to a fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. The film received critical acclaim and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Excellence for Best Documentary.
Please join the Africana Studies Institute for the screening of the film and a discussion with Filmmaker and curator, Shola Lynch.
For more information, contact: Africana Studies Institute at africana@uconn.edu or 860-486-3630