#StopCopCity | A City in the Forest - Film Sneak Peak for Funders, Organizers & Creatives | Hosted @ Hip Hop Caucus
LA Climate Week: A City in the Forest Documentary - Funder & Partner Screening | Hosted @ Hip Hop Caucus
In Atlanta, a diverse protest movement defends an urban forest from Cop City, a plan for the country's largest police training facility. A City in the Forest paints a prismatic portrait of the country’s most urgent social justice story, where a web of land defenders, police abolitionists, and climate justice activists fight back against militarization, environmental devastation, and the police killing of a land defender.
As the climate crisis accelerates and 70 more “Cop Cities” are planned in the US, this deadly crackdown erodes 1st Amendment rights, normalizes authoritarianism, and criminalizes environmentalism. A City in the Forest is a moving portrait of the resilience of a united community putting their bodies on the line against these crises.
Please join us at the Hip Hop Caucus office for this brief showcase of footage, a happy hour, and feel free to stay for a screening of the rough cut. Invite other potential funders, production and impact partners, community organizers, and creatives to help connect this vital work of documentary journalism with the finishing funds it needs.
Schedule:
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Doors Open
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Trailer Screening + Meet the directors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Happy Hour
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Rough Cut Screening (optional)
This film is supported by: Ford Foundation JustFilms, Southern Documentary Fund, Freedom of the Press Foundation, Scottish Documentary Institute, Center for Independent Documentary Kopkind Seminar, MountainFilm, Yale Law School Doc Project, Cardozo Law Filmmaker Legal Clinic, Nonfiction Hotlist, DocShop South and FilmShop Studio.
Featured Speakers: Executive Producer Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. (President of the Hip Hop Caucus) with the film’s Emmy Award-winning Directors Lev Omelchenko and Nolan Huber-Rhoades.
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