Trailer
Angela Davis was a young college professor, a militant for both the Communist Party and the Black Panthers. Upon being incriminated for an attempted rescue of three imprisoned men, she makes the FBI’s list of most wanted. Hunted and arrested, Angela is convicted, but voices all around the world, headed by prominent figures such as John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Sartre, clamor for her release. In the film, Angela talks about witnessing her own transformation into a symbol of struggle against racism and police oppression in a time of great political turmoil in America. Toronto 2012.
Shola Lynch
Born in 1969, in the US. She has studied history at the University of California (Riverside) and journalism at Columbia. In 2004, she directed the documentary Chisholm ’72: Unbought & Unbossed, on the first African-American woman to run for president of the United States. This is her second feature-length film as a director.
