Shell Shocked: Documentary Film
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 7:30pm
Presented by The Newtown Action Alliance
Shell Shocked examines the grim reality of murder through the eyes of children.
Join SHELL SHOCKED producer John Richie of New Orleans, Attorney Monte Frank of Newtown, Rev. Sam Saylor of Hartford and Rev. Henry Brown of Hartford in a screening of SHELL SHOCKED, followed by a CNN segment featuring Mr. Frank and Rev. Saylor and a panel discussion on gun violence in America and how urban and suburban communities are joining forces to create a movement to reduce the gun violence epidemic
A new documentary about the gun violence that is plaguing our African American youth and the organizations that are working to change this cycle of violence. New Orleans, Louisiana has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the United States. For the last decade, statistics have shown murder rates four to six times higher than the national average. Eighty percent of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. This is the city's greatest neglected crisis with profound implications for the issues of violence and crime most American cities face. New Orleans government, law enforcement, community leaders, and well-intentioned citizens cannot agree on a prognosis or a solution to this situation. Wherever a disagreement is escalating into violence, an execution is being planned, or a victim is taking his last breath, it is more than likely a youth is witnessing or carrying out these actions.
SHELL SHOCKED is the recipient of the Cultural Spirit Award at the 2013 New Hope Film Festival, and the winner of the 2013 Chicago International Social Change Film Festival. It is currently being implemented into a national prison education initiative called Jail Education Solutions, which provides prisoners with positive, educational alternatives to their everyday television programming.
This is a free event -
Please call the box office to reserve your tickets 203.438.5795
Click here to view the trailer
- See more at: http://www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org/event/shell-shocked-documentary-film#sthash.T73e6SKE.dpuf
Mon, 01/20/2014 - 7:30pm
Presented by The Newtown Action Alliance
Shell Shocked examines the grim reality of murder through the eyes of children.
Join SHELL SHOCKED producer John Richie of New Orleans, Attorney Monte Frank of Newtown, Rev. Sam Saylor of Hartford and Rev. Henry Brown of Hartford in a screening of SHELL SHOCKED, followed by a CNN segment featuring Mr. Frank and Rev. Saylor and a panel discussion on gun violence in America and how urban and suburban communities are joining forces to create a movement to reduce the gun violence epidemic
A new documentary about the gun violence that is plaguing our African American youth and the organizations that are working to change this cycle of violence. New Orleans, Louisiana has one of the highest per capita murder rates in the United States. For the last decade, statistics have shown murder rates four to six times higher than the national average. Eighty percent of the victims are black males, mostly in their teenage years. This is the city's greatest neglected crisis with profound implications for the issues of violence and crime most American cities face. New Orleans government, law enforcement, community leaders, and well-intentioned citizens cannot agree on a prognosis or a solution to this situation. Wherever a disagreement is escalating into violence, an execution is being planned, or a victim is taking his last breath, it is more than likely a youth is witnessing or carrying out these actions.
SHELL SHOCKED is the recipient of the Cultural Spirit Award at the 2013 New Hope Film Festival, and the winner of the 2013 Chicago International Social Change Film Festival. It is currently being implemented into a national prison education initiative called Jail Education Solutions, which provides prisoners with positive, educational alternatives to their everyday television programming.
This is a free event -
Please call the box office to reserve your tickets 203.438.5795
Click here to view the trailer
- See more at: http://www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org/event/shell-shocked-documentary-film#sthash.T73e6SKE.dpuf