Join us as we celebrate the beginning of our 5th decade
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H2A and Third World Newsreel's Indie Distribution
Label
The Hip-Hop Association
(H2A) and Third World Newsreel (TWN) partner in
H2ONEWSREEL,
a distribution label offering the best in Hip-Hop media, education, and culture.
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The 2014 Production Workshop will start soon -Evening Seminars have started.
Register now!
The celebrated TWN Production Workshop - will start soon. The new Evening
Seminars already started the
schedule and stay tuned!
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Spring at TWN
Upcoming screening and Home Video Day and
Grant information!
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When I Walk, American Promise and more.
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Gideon's Army
Dawn PorterJulie Goldman
GIDEON’S ARMY follows the personal stories of Travis Williams, Brandy Alexander and June Hardwick, three young public defenders who are part of a small group of idealistic lawyers in the Deep South challenging the assumptions that drive a criminal justice system strained to the breaking point. Backed by mentor Jonathan “Rap” Rapping, a charismatic leader who heads the Southern Public Defender Training Center (now known as Gideon’s Promise) they struggle against long hours, low pay and staggering caseloads so common that even the most committed often give up in their first year. Nearly 50 years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling Gideon vs. Wainwright that established the right to counsel, can these courageous lawyers revolutionize the way America thinks about indigent defense and make “justice for all” a reality?
In 1963 the Supreme Court decided the landmark case Gideon vs. Wainwright. The holding was simple: in felony cases people who cannot afford a lawyer must be provided on
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Special Collections
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Assembled for your classroom and exhibition use, Third World Newsreel's Special
Collections groups titles from our library of films and videos around important
issues.
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Call for Change
The CALL FOR CHANGE 2005 series was a Third World Newsreel project
which brought together socially conscious mediamakers of color to produce short
videos on communities of color and their state of America.
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Call for Producers and Filmmakers.
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