Film Series

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

**SPECIAL EVENT**
The Central Park Five
Friday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m.  (Public reception begins at 6:15 p.m.)
Page Hall Auditorium, University at Albany Downtown Campus, 135 Western Avenue
In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of brutally beating and raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. New York Mayor Ed Koch called it the “crime of the century” and it remains to date one of the biggest media stories of our time. The five each spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a shocking confession from a serial rapist and DNA evidence proved their innocence. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, The Central Park Five tells the story of how five lives were upended by the rush to judgment by police, a sensationalist media and a devastating miscarriage of justice.

** Film directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon will lead audience discussion and answer questions following the film.

Once Were Warriors
Friday, April 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Page Hall Auditorium, University at Albany Downtown Campus, 135 Western Avenue
Set in urban Auckland, New Zealand, Once Were Warriors tells the story of a family descended from Maori warriors that is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

Past Films:
Kinyarwanda
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The Execution of Wanda Jean
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Day, Night, Day, Night
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Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)