About the film:
The Royal Starr Arts Institute and Film Festival has always been a platform for filmmakers to screen their films that explore the issues we face today. This year is no exception.
Forged in Flint highlights small business owners and entrepreneurs in Flint have decided to start building the future they want to see. And it’s working.
Penny – Kate Fenton (Let Her Out) and Troy Harryman (The Intersection) star in this dramatic thriller about miscommunications & consequences.This timely film explores racial tensions and the bond between two strangers on a mid-summer night.
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story – The idea is powerfully simple: engage the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional yet unscripted trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing recent tragedies. The accused is Officer Daniel Pantaleo, charged in the July 17, 2014 death of Eric Garner with reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first degree. The judge is played by a seasoned defense lawyer, while the officer is played by the only actor in the cast (Anthony Altieri). Eyewitnesses, bystanders, friends, and his widow, Esaw Snipes, all come to testify; meanwhile, credible expert witnesses who would have likely been called to testify in a real trial provide their testimonies for both the prosecution and the defense to create fair judicial proceedings. The film goes deep into the case, placing the audience in the position of the jury in this one-of-a-kind hybrid fiction-documentary courtroom drama.
This special limited engagement screening will be at the Emagine Drive-In Theater in Novi, MI on Thursday, September 24th at 8:15 PM in front of an audience of filmmakers, friends and families.
Now it’s time to take care of the business at hand. Click just below this paragraph for your chance to score a free pass for one vehicle to the THE ISSUES screening at the Emagine Drive-In Theater on Thursday, September 24th at 8:15 PM. For information on Act fast before this giveaway gets whacked. You can learn more and purchase tickets to this special one-night-only event by clicking here. That is all.
