AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2010

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Documentary Film Festival, June 15-22, 2010

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FREEDOM RIDERS
Stanley Nelson 2009
Categories: Silver Spectrum
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Run time: 113 min. | USA
In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders boarded interstate buses and rode into our consciousness, risking their own lives to point out the continuing pattern of segregation at work in the American south. FREEDOM RIDERS vividly evokes the sense of possibility and danger of the rides, masterfully balancing archival footage with riveting first-person accounts. The film is notable for its unusually deep level of detail and insight, touching on oft-omitted aspects of the rides, like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s refusal to participate. Also remarkable is the documenting of white racists, whose plain statements of hatred are still shocking. 

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FREEDOM RIDERS
Vanessa Ruiz Ezersky
WGBH
Tel: 617.300.5953
Fax: 617.300.1018
vanessa_ezersky@wgbh.org
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10:45 AM     Thu, Jun 24
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6:15 PM     Sun, Jun 27
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3:00 PM     Mon, Jun 28 AFI Silver Theater 2 + add to cal buy tickets
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Rated 3.0/5 Stars
Scott McFarland
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This is excellent subject matter; the Freedom Riders are real heroes and many people like me need to see this and to understand their contribution. The good news is this classically made documentary will almost certainly be on TV and seen by millions of people over time. To me the pacing is a bit deliberate and the film long at the beginning. Maybe I'm spoiled from watching Stone's documentary yesterday which is so concise and creative. Now I do want to say a word about classless behavior during Q&A. If you are talking at length about your own experiences or beliefs, you are disrespecting the filmmaker(s) and the rest of the audience. The guy who had the rap about "I used to program at Silverdocs and they did you a real disservice and you should complain about being in Theatre 3, and I didn't like the film I saw last night, and here's what I think about politics and how this film is so important to my worldview" was a total ass.
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