MIGHT TIMES: THE CHILDREN’S MARCH, HOME OF THE BRAVE Screening
Robert Hudson and Bobby Houston’s 2004 Academy Award winning short documentary Mighty Times: The Children’s March (right) and the documentary feature Home of the Brave will be screened as part of the 2006 "Contemporary Documentary" series presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy Foundation, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
The screenings, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the James Bridges Theater on the UCLA campus, are free and open to the public.
Set in 1963, Mighty Times: The Children’s March focuses on the organized acts of civil disobedience effected by five thousand black children in Birmingham, Alabama. Eventually, they brought down the white racist establishment.
Directed by Paola di Florio and produced by Nancy Dickenson, Home of the Brave explores the murder of Viola Liuzzo (right), reportedly the only white woman murdered in the Civil Rights Movement.
The death of that one white woman was largely credited as having given US President Lyndon Johnson the necessary political leverage to have Congress pass the Voting Rights Act.
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Tags: Bobby Houston, Documentaries, Home of the Brave, Los Angeles Screenings, Mighty Times: The Children's March, Nancy Dickenson, Paola di Florio, Political Movies, Robert Hudson, Viola Liuzzo
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