Wilmington 10 – USA 10,000 (1979)

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Wilmington 10 -- USA 10,000

(Haile Gerima, 1979, 120 min, 4K digital restoration courtesy the Academy Film Archive) 

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In 1971, ten civil rights activists, including 24-year-old Rev. Benjamin Chavis of the United Church of Christ’s Commission on Racial Justice, were wrongfully convicted of arson in Wilmington, North Carolina. Through interviews with the parents of the Wilmington 10 (as well as political prisoner Assata Shakur, filmed just before her escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility), groundbreaking Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima (Bush Mama, Sankofa) exposes the human toll of injustice. Nearly unseen for decades, Wilmington 10 – USA 10,000 will screen at the Block in a new restoration from the Academy Film Archive.

With an introduction and discussion by Allyson Nadia Field, Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Chicago, author of Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity (Duke University Press, 2015), co-editor of L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema (University of California Press, 2015).

Presented with support from the Kaplan Humanities Institute at Northwestern University

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