GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series: Out in the Night | JCC 29 October 2014, 7:30pm
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Theater
Out in the Night is a new documentary by blair dorosh-walther that examines the 2006 case of The New Jersey 4. Through the lives of four young women, Out in the Night reveals how their race, gender identity and sexuality became criminalized in the mainstream news media and criminal legal system.
Under the neon lights in a gay-friendly neighborhood of New York City, four young African-American lesbians are violently and sexually threatened by a man on the street. They defend themselves against him and are charged and convicted in the courts and in the media as a "Gang of Killer Lesbians."
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The discussion with director blair dorosh-walther, Giovanna Chesler (director of GMU's Film & Video Studies as well as the film's producer), and film subject Renata Hill will be facilitated by Women and Gender Studies Associate Director Tashia Harris.
Out in the Night and blair dorosh-walther at George Mason University is sponsored by Film & Media Studies and Film & Video Studies. The event is cosponsored by African and African American Studies, Communication, Criminology, Law and Society, Cultural Studies, English, History and Art History, Honors College, LGBTQ Resource Office, Psychology, University Life, and Women & Gender Studies.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by Sponsored by Film & Media Studies and Film & Video Studies.
