ATTICA

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson, a DOC NYC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, has a distinguished career telling stories of Black struggle against white supremacy. He teams with co-director Traci A. Curry to revisit the largest prison uprising in U.S. history at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York in 1971. The filmmakers conduct dozens of new interviews and make powerful use of surveillance footage to understand the legacy of resistance and its violent backlash.  

– Courtesy of SHOWTIME® Documentary Films

The November 14th screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson and Co-Director Traci A. Curry. The November 17th screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Stanley Nelson. 

This film contains the following accessibility options for viewers:
Closed Captioning for in-person screenings at IFC Center and Cinepolis Chelsea
Closed Captioning for online screenings

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