FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AN ACT OF UNITY AT San Francisco New Concept Film Festival
AN ACT OF UNITY (AAOU) is a Flash Documentary by African American Director Cedric O’Bannon, Video Journalist and Media Consultant, Cedric O’Bannon with co-producer writer September Williams. Both filmmakers are NWU and IFJ members. The film was selected by the San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival. The festival runs Thursday, October 27 through Sunday, October 30, 2022.
The last day of the festival includes a Red Carpet, the awarded films will be revealed and screened in their different categories. AN ACT OF UNITY trailer is already on the festival website in the “short documentary” section. Over the past year AN ACT OF UNITY has been recognized in festivals in Singapore, India, Canada, and now in the filmmakers home region the USA, San Francisco Bay area. The location of the screenings is the Herbst Theater/War Memorial at the San Francisco Civic Center.
AN ACT OF UNITY shows demonstrators memorializing Micheal Brown’s life by protesting against police killings of specifically unarmed Black people, unarmed poor people, and any other unarmed people in the USA. The film focuses on the Demonstration that occurred at Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in Oakland, CA in 2015. Part of Micheal Brown’s legacy is that because of him now death by fire arms including fatal police shootings are being studied by race, ethnicity, wealth disparities and access to guns. Numbers don’t lie only people do.
Filmmaker and video journalist Cedric O’Bannon, realized that he was still holding in his archives video footage of the aforementioned demonstration. It did not escape him that mainstream media rarely shows different peoples of color supporting the dignity of others. AN ACT OF UNITY shows that in Oakland it can, does, and did. Eight years later O’Bannon’s footage and film is still and even more relevant.
Please join the Filmmakers of AN ACT OF UNITY at the San Francisco New Concept Film Festival—and plan to support them in the future. (By the way the “new concept” is that the festival is more than just films with new concepts.) This is the 9th year of this festival. Tickets available for 10/30/22 Awards ceremony which includes winning films screening. Wish us luck! Check the festival website for the Trailer of AN ACT OF UNITY.