HOMELESS SEX OFFENDERS TO GET FREE MOVIE SCREENING
A Mobile Projection Truck Will bring an Award-Winning Documentary About The Sex-Offender Registry to the Street where Miami’s Homeless Sex Offenders Are Forced to Sleep
Contacts:
Gail Colletta – Florida Action Committee – gail@floridaactioncommittee.org – 561.305.4959
David Feige – Panopticon Productions – Info@UntouchableFilm.com 212.362.8640
Miami FL, February 28 – Untouchable, an award winning feature-documentary about the nation’s sex offender laws, will screen before an audience rendered homeless by the very laws the film illuminates.
At 7:30 PM, on March 14, a mobile projection unit will bring the film to a camp of over 100 homeless sex offenders, several of whom were featured in the film. The camp, which lies along an open railroad track with no facilities or shelter, is the result of Miami’s strict residency restrictions.
The screening will be co-hosted by the Florida Action Committee and the Center for Human Rights and Social Justice at Barry University. The film’s director, David Feige, and much of the creative team behind the film will also be in attendance.
“It is important that the public sees the consequences of these laws first hand” says Feige, “When our laws are grounded in fear rather than science, they can have unintended and sometimes heartbreaking consequences.”
Untouchable follows super-lobbyist Ron Book after he discovers that his daughter (now State Senator Lauren Book) was the victim of sexual abuse. Harnessing his extraordinary political power, Book goes on a furious campaign to make Florida the toughest state in the nation for sex offenders. The film interweaves Book’s crusade with intimate portraits of men and women who have been branded sex offenders and heartbreaking stories of those who have suffered sexual abuse. Through surprising revelations, the film defies expectations and challenges assumptions about danger, sexual abuse and the strategies we’ve employed to keep our children safe.
There will be a panel discussion immediately following the screening. Panelists will include Jill Levenson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work at Barry University, and Valerie Jonas Esq, a civil rights attorney who has challenged Miami’s residency restriction laws, and Director and filmmaker David Feige.
The location of the screening is NW 36th Court, just north of NW 71st Street in Miami. Members of the public are welcome to attend – admission is free.
Among other accolades, Untouchable won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Albert Maysles New Documentary Director Award — and is due to have its Florida premiere at the Miami Film Festival on March Eleventh.
Film Synopsis: When the most powerful lobbyist in Florida discovers that the nanny has sexually abused his daughter, he harnesses his extraordinary political power to pass the toughest sex offender laws in the nation. Untouchable chronicles his crusade, and its impact on the lives of several of the 800,000 people forced to live under the kinds of laws he has championed. The film interweaves intimate portraits of men and women who have been branded sex offenders with the heartbreaking stories of those who have suffered sexual abuse. It is a film that pushes viewers toward an uncomfortable place, requiring them to walk in the shoes of those who have survived sexual abuse, but to still bear witness to the experiences of those we revile.
Film website: http://www.untouchablefilm.com/
There is a guy who really needs an electric wheelchair. I would be happy to help get one for him but it is hard for me to do anything from Cincinnati.
Thanks Derek – we know you’ve been out to the tracks a couple times to help out the registrants living there. Anything you can do to bring attention to the cause is appreciated!
Well as you know, I am a single activist with a small budget, and FAC is bigger. And, you folks are closer. Surely someone down there can do what I have been incapable of doing myself, and this man is in need. I am sure that even I you found a used wheelchair on Craigslist he would be happy with that. So my question is if FAC could find an electric wheelchair for the guy. I personally lack the funds to both buy and transport such a device from Cincinnati to Miami.
can you send his contact info to info@floridaactioncommittee.org, please, so that we can look into it?
I hope to hell the media and vigilante nuts line up to screen this great Doc. I was present for a recent Festival screening and the audience came out with a much better understanding of reformation of all Federal and State Sex Offender Laws. Thanks Gail, for the sponsorship.
Hopefully the homeless registrants will have a new hope of survival after this wraps.
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