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Jada, Will Smith to Present Shola Lynch’s ‘Free Angela & All Political Prisoners’ at Toronto Film Festival -Trailer

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Here’s the trailer to Shola Lynch‘s documentary “Free Angela & All Political Prisoners,” which will make its World Premiere at 2012 Toronto Film Festival. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith will be on hand to present the film.

The film details the turbulent life of radical activist Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party, associate of the Black Panthers and UCLA philosophy professor who was charged in 1970 with conspiracy in kidnapping and murdering Judge Harold Haley from the Marin County courthouse.

Built around new interviews with Davis, the film recounts her Alabama upbringing, her studies in the U.S. and Europe, and the start of her academic career in the philosophy department at UCLA, where she quickly drew fire for her membership in the CP — which then-governor Ronald Reagan publicly labelled a “provocation.” (Reagan would later amend this, claiming that what really irked him was Davis’ “unprofessionalism.”) A campaign began to have Davis banned from teaching anywhere in the state. She began receiving death threats, which led her to purchase her first firearm…

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