Angela Davis Portrait of a Revolutionary - WIAFF

Women in Activism Film Festival is a programme of screenings curated by Black History Studies celebrating Black Women in Activism and to highlight the variety of work, experiences and excellence of Black Women around the world and through history. It is important to recognise that the contributions of Black Women to History, which makes for a much more inclusive, richer, fuller and more importantly, truthful account of World History.

The film festival will feature a mixture of feature films and documentaries. We will incorporate presentations and facilitate engaging post film discussions with audience members.

ANGELA DAVIS: PORTRAIT OF A REVOLUTIONARY (12)

Yolande du Luart
USA 1972, digital, b/w, 60 min.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyYt3jFYr8

The late '60s and early '70s produced a large crop of social critics and self-labelled revolutionaries. Outspoken Black militant feminist and communist Angela Davis was one of these. Davis, also a professor of philosophy at U.C.L.A., is the subject of this documentary film made by one of her U.C.L.A. students. It features her in the classroom, at a "rap" session, studying quietly, and giving her rumbustious speeches at antiwar and other demonstrations.

"Radical means getting to the roots of things" -" Angela Davis

"Two factors of Miss Davis’s personality are dominant – a warm and deep concern for her ”brothers and sisters”, and her almost total sacrifice of self to “the struggle”." - John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle

"Whether or not you agree with Miss Davis's assertions, this film is impressive" - Howard Thompson, New York Times

Door open at 7.00pm
Event starts at 7.30pm

Purchase your tickets from https://www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk/see/film-angela-davis-portrait-of-a-revolutionary/