Description

Take an up close and personal ride inside criminal injustice system with one of the nation’s few elected public defenders, City of San Francisco’s Public Defender, Jeff Adachi. Adachi defends a young African American man who is charged with assaulting police officers after being falsely accused of a crime in a case with racial overtones. In this era of mass incarceration, police shootings of young African American men, and implicit bias in policing, what are the consequences for those who question police authority?

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1. Nurturing the Media Activist Ecosystem of Citizen Journalists, Mainstream Media, and Policy-Makers

   SFUFF 2017 / 180 mins

   How do urban storytellers align themselves to amplify their messages in battling today’s entrenched public policy problems? With the advent of social media and the democratization of production tools anyone can be a civic whistleblower. The real work is in connecting and nurturing new networks that may have not had access to each other.

   In This Program: 73 Questions, Heart of the City, The Mural, The Ride

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