FILM: “Race to Execution”

ITVS Community Cinema, KQED Community Outreach, and the San Francisco Public Library present:

FILM: “Race to Execution”

Post-screening discussion with filmmaker Rachel Lyon
RACE TO EXECUTION traces the fates of two Death Row inmates—Robert Tarver in Alabama and Madison Hobley in Chicago. Through these compelling personal narratives and the often unexpected results of research on race, justice and the media, RACE TO EXECUTION exposes the factors that influence who lives and who dies at the hands of the state.

Free and Open to the Public

Panel Discussion Following the Film
Rachel Lyon, Filmmaker “Race to Execution”
Rory Little, Professor of Law UC Hastings College of the Law
Barbara Becnel, Stanley Tookie Williams Advocate
Sujatha Baliga, Esq., Capital Appellate Defense Attorney
Lance Lindsey, Executive Director of Death Penalty Focus

Partner Organizations: Death Penalty Focus, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, ACLU Death Penalty Project,Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the National lawyers Guild S.F. Bay Area Chapter


For more information on ITVS Community Cinema or how to get involved visit http://itvs.org/outreach/racetoexecution/ or email moriah_kinberg [at] itvs.org