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August 16 at 7:00pm
Scribe
Video Center
The
Forest for the Trees -
Philadelphia Premiere
dir. Bernadine Mellis, USA, 2006, video, 53 mins, color
Director
Bernadine Mellis in person
The
Forest for the Trees is an intimate, behind-the-scenes
look at an unlikely team of young activists and old lefties
who come together to battle the US government over alleged FBI
and Police retaliation against an environmental activist. Filmmaker
Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of legendary civil rights lawyer
Dennis Cunningham, who started his career representing the Black
Panthers and the Attica Brothers.
Judi
Bari was a leader in Earth First. Her car was bombed in 1990,
and she was arrested as a terrorist on charges that were later
dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her
and Earth First, Judi decided to sue. Cunningham took on Judi's
case and after twelve years, Judi Bari vs. The FBI finally gets
a court date. Mellis is there at strategy meetings, at breakfast,
and after court, documenting her morally driven, very tired
dad, while offering us access into the life of the extraordinary
Judi Bari, and a piece of US history that is disturbingly resonant.
Bernadine
Mellis is an adjunct professor in film at Temple University,
where she received her MFA in 2004. Her short film The Golden
Pheasant, an Orphan's Tale, is a children's story which
has also screened on public television and in museums and schools
nationally.
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