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Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama - A Conversation on Life, Struggles & Liberation

  • 20102010
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Angela Y. Davis & Yuri Kochiyama
Thirteen years. Two inspiring women. One conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is an award-winning, historically rich and unique documentary featuring conversations between two women who share a profound passion for justice. Internationally renowned scholar, professor and writer Angela Davis and 89-year-old grassroots organizer and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Yuri Kochiyama share intimate conversations about personal histories and influences that shaped them and some of the most important social movements of the 20th century. Illustrated with rare footage from the 1800's to today, the film's unique format honors the scope and depth of their knowledge on topics ranging from Jim Crow laws and Japanese internment camps, to the arts, cross-cultural/cross-racial alliances, Civil Rights, anti-war, international solidarity, women's and gay liberation movements, to today's campaigns for political prisoners and prison reform. These insights, recorded over the span of 13 years, take in the history of a century and offer critical lessons about community activism and tremendous hope for the future of social justice. 

A QUAD Productions film by C.A. Griffith and H.L.T. Quan. Distributed by Women Make Movies. WINNER of three international film festival awards, NOMINATED for a 2011 award from the American Library Association and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by EMRO. (2009, 97 minutes). TO BUY or RENT:  www.wmm.com/filmcatalogue/pages/c796.shtml
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Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a pr... Read allThirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn... Read allThirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar, writer and activist, and 88-year-old Ko... Read all

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    Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary about two formidable women who share a profound passion for justice. Through conversations that are intimate and profound, we learn about Davis, an internationally renowned scholar, writer and activist, and 88-year-old Kochiyama, a revered grassroots community activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Their shared experience as political prisoners and their dedication to Civil Rights embody personal and political experiences as well as the diverse lives of women doing liberatory cultural work. Illustrated with rarely-seen photographs and footage of extraordinary speeches and events from the early 1900s to the '60s and through the present, the topics of this rich conversation range from critical, but often forgotten role of women in 20th century social movements to the importance of cross-cultural/cross-racial alliances; from America's WWII internment camps to Japan's "Comfort Women"; from Malcolm X to the prison industrial complex; and from war to cultural arts. Davis and Kochiyama's comments offer critical lessons for understanding our nation's most important social movements while providing tremendous hope for its youth and the future. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by EMRO. DISTRIBUTED by WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c796.shtml —QUAD Productions
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      Referenced in What Did You Do in the War, Mama? Kochiyama's Crusaders

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      • June 17, 2010 (United States)
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