New Film about Mumia Abu-Jamal premieres tonight on Sundance TV

New Film about Mumia Abu-Jamal premieres tonight on Sundance TV

by Hans Bennett
(Abu-Jamal-News.com)

Tonight at 9pm, the new British documentary film about death row journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal “In Prison My Whole Life” will be premiering on the Sundance Channel. Today, there were several new articles about the premiere, including in the Philadelphia Daily News:

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20081208_Ellen_Gray__Documentary_probes_Abu-Jamal_case.html


Given the typically virulent hatred directed at Mumia by the Philly media, this article could certainly have been worse. Writer Ellen Gray comments that “for those Philadelphians who've wondered for decades how this particular case came to be an international cause, the film represents an opportunity to see ourselves as others still may see us. It's not a pretty picture, and certainly anyone encountering the footage of the [1978] and 1985 MOVE assaults for the first time might wonder about a city where such things could occur. I still wonder myself.”

The other most notable article is from PopMatters:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/66657-in-prison-my-whole-life/

The article says that the film “makes an argument that ranges from nuanced and heavy-handed. In any form, the argument is important. And, as the documentary insists, time is ticking.”

Given the Sundance premiere and the support of Amnesty International, who has long called for a new trial, we know how have a serious resource for helping to spread the word about this case. Please help publicize this, so that we can maximize this potential for breaking the long-standing corporate media blackout on all the evidence of both an unfair trial and innocence. My two previous interviews with William Francome and Livia Firth have spotlighted two key parts of the movie: the new interview with Billy Cook, and the focus on the newly discovered crime scene photos, featuring an interview with the press photographer Pedro Polakoff, and German author Michael Schiffmann, who recently found the photos and published them in his new book on the case. Read more about that here:

http://insubordination.blogspot.com/2008/09/interview-new-british-film-about-mumia.html