San Francisco Film Festival presents: The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, directed by Stanley Nelson

 Black Panther Party revolutionary Queens

 Ancestor Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party

 

Director Stanley Nelson

 

The Stanley Nelson's documentary The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, will be screened at the San Francisco Film Festival, Saturday, April 25, 2015, 3:00pm. Marvin X was interviewed for the film. He attended Oakland's Merritt College with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. He introduced Eldridge Cleaver to the BPP: "Marvin X was my teacher. Many of our comrades came through his Black Arts Theatre: Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, Emory Douglas, Samuel Napier, Judy Juanita, JoAnn Mitchell, et al," said Dr. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.

 Eldridge Cleaver and Alprentis Bunchy Carter, boss of the Slauson Street Gang, later Chair of the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party.  Cleaver and Bunchy served time together at Soledad Prison. George Jackson was there as well when the Black Culture Club was established with Cleaver and Bunchy as co-chairs. This club was the beginning of the American Prison Movement, spearheaded by North American Africans, the most oppressed group in the USA Babylon oligarchy!

George Jackson, Messiah of the Black Prison Movement, author of Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

 Black Panther Party co-founder, Bobby Seale and Marvin X

 Marvin X and Tarika Lewis, violinist and first female member of the Black Panther Party

 Actor Ossie Davis, Dr. Nathan Hare, Bobby Seale, Dr. Carlton Goodlette

 Angela Davis, Marvin X, Sonia Sanchez

 In 1969, Gov. Ronald Reagan removed Angela Davis from lecturing at UCLA because she was a Black Communist. At the same time he removed Nation of Islam poet Marvin X from teaching at Fresno State University because he was a Black Muslim, additionally, he had refused to fight in Vietnam for America, along with Muhammad Ali and all followers of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Marvin X not only refused to serve but under the influence of the Black Panther Party, he resisted by going to exile in Toronto, Canada, then a second time in Mexico City and Belize, British Honduras. He was deported back to the United States and served time in Terminal Island Federal Prison for his resistance and refusal to serve the white supremacy army of the USA.

Eldridge Cleaver and Marvin X, circa 1979, Oakland Ca.

We are pleased to invite you to a screening of The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, which will be held next weekend at

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the 58th San Francisco International Film Festival!  

​Screening times are as follows: 

Saturday April 25, 2015 at 

3:00 p.m. 

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Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

​. Please RSVP as soon as possble to this email address, or call 646-262-7757.  We hope you can attend what promises to be an extraordinary event. 

Presented by the San Francisco Film Society, the Festival is the longest-running film festival in the Americas. As it celebrates its 58th edition, SFIFF has screened more than 6,000 films, entertained and inspired roughly two million filmgoers and hosted thousands of prominent guests and luminaries. Press coverage of films, guests and events is extensive.

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presenting this  at the Festival.

​There will be an additional screening on Tuesday ​

April 28, 2015

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6:15 p.m. at theSundance Kabuki Cinemas​

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Tickets for that screening are available online at festival.sffs.org and at the Festival box office. located at Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street (at Fillmore), Open daily 3:30-7:30 pm.  General admission tickets are $15, Senior/student/disabled tickets are $14. 

Best regards,
Nicole London

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Nicole London
Associate Producer| The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Firelight Films
324 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031