RightsFest Civil Rights Film Festival | SF

Submitted by the Event Organizer

RightsFest brings viewers Pilgrimage. An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Pilgrimage is about the roots and lasting significance of a community’s annual journey to Manzanar, one of ten WWII incarceration camps for Japanese Americans.

Confirmed panelist: director Tadashi Nakamura.

Thursday’s lineup also includes the 35-minute version of this year’s American Experience feature, Freedom Riders, released on the 50th anniversary of the 1961 movement against bus segregation in the American South.

Confirmed panelists: Freedom Rider Carol Ruth Silver.

RightsFest: A Civil Rights Film Festival SECOND NIGHT
Date: 10/27/2011
New People Cinema
1746 Post Street, San Francisco
Cost: FREE

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