JUST MERCY Monday, January 6, 2020 7:00PM @ AMC Boston Common - Free Screening

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We are so excited about 2020 and what we have in store for you this year. Dinner & A Movie will be back at Haley House Bakery Cafe in the spring.  We are partnering with CHEERS for a screening series at Northeastern. ROXFILM enters in to its 22nd year and we wouldn't be here without you!! Thank you for all of your love and support  for the work we do and for the filmmakers who create beautiful and compelling stories for us to see.  We kick off January with a screening of Just Mercy and Fair Game: Surviving A 1960 Georgia Lynching.  We look forward to starting off this next decade with you. Yours in film!! Film Festival passes are now available JUST MERCY Monday, January 6, 2020 7:00PM @ AMC Boston Common - Free Screening Lawyer Bryan Stevenson takes on the case of Walter McMillian, who is sentenced to die for murder despite evidence proving his innocence. In the years that follow, Stevenson encounters racism and legal manoeuvrings as he fights for McMillian's life.  TICKETS FAIR GAME: Surviving A 1960 Georgia Lynching & Murder in Mobile January 15, 2020 6pm. John D. O'Bryant African American Institute at Northeastern University. Community Conversations Series Presented in conjunction with The Center for Community Health Education Research and Service and the Roxbury International Film Festival. Two documentary films will be featured: Murder in Mobile, a film set in 1948, in Mobile, Alabama, where a black man named Rayfield Davis was beaten to death by a white man who was not prosecuted. Fair Game - Surviving a 1960 Georgia Lynching, Written and Directed by Clennon King. Five years after Emmett Till’s murder, a Black New Jersey mother moved heaven and earth to rescue her son from a town notorious for lynching. in May 1960, James Fair, Jr. was arrested, jailed, tried, convicted, and sentenced to the electric chair in less than three days.Fair Game chronicles the 26-month campaign spearheaded by Fair’s mother, Alice, a Tallahassee native who stopped at nothing to save the life of her son. Panel of Discussion to follow. Lisa Simmons, Director, Roxbury International Film Festival (Moderator) Dr. Diane Harriford, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Africana Studies, Vassar College Clennon L. King, Documentary Film Director/Producer Rahsaan Hall, JD, Director, Racial Justice Program, American Civil Liberties Union – Massachusetts   FREE SCREENING - RSVP SUBMIT YOUR FILM TO ROXFILM 22  SUPPORT THE ROXBURY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - SPONSOR/DONATE RoxFilm has over the past 21 years brought you some of the best independent films celebrating people of color around the world.  We pride ourselves on being fiercly indpendent and sharing the vision and voice of filmmakers who push the boundaries and introduce us to unknown worlds both fiction and non and people who have made this world a better place.  Help us  to keep bringing you these stories, stories we need now more than ever.     FILM REVIEWS We have some great reviewers working with ROXFILM.   Slandie Preston, Ricardo Guillaume & Andrea Lyman.  Check out what they think about some of the best black films in 2019.  (scroll to the bottom of the home page)