DO NOT RESIST

Showings

Ped Mall -Scene 1 Sun, Jan 8, 2017 7:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Vino Vérité
Film Info
Rating:Not Rated
Runtime:75 mins
Director:Craig Atkinson
Year Released:2016
Production Country:USA

Description

Presented by Bread Garden Market, Little Village and FilmScene

DIALOGUE: Director Craig Atkinson and producer Laura Hartrick in person.
Sunday, January 8, 7pm

Winner of Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival, DO NOT RESIST is an urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States, keenly observed on the ground in communities and law enforcement conventions across the nation. The ninth selection of our Vino Vérité series presented by Bread Garden Market.

The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market.

Tickets: $25 public / $20 for members. Includes wine tasting, film, hors d'oeuvres and filmmaker reception.

6:30 Hors d'oeuvres & wine tasting
7:00 Theater open for seating
7:15 Screening 
8:45 Reception with filmmaker, wine and dessert

DO NOT RESIST

"A quietly seething look at present-day policing in America. An experience best had in the cinema."Hollywood Reporter

Opening on startling on-the-streets footage of Ferguson, Missouri, as the community grapples with the death of Michael Brown, the film emerges the viewer into the direct experience of modern day American policing. Broadening its scope, the film follows the action across the country—from a ride-along with a South Carolina SWAT team and inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments—before exploring where controversial new technologies, including predictive policing algorithms, could lead the field next.

Through direct observation of the rapid militarization of local police agencies in the United States, Atkinson assembles a collection of vignettes into a powerful first-hand account of America's disturbing new reality. Winner of the Grand Jury prize for Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival, Atkinson's directorial debut is a thoughtfully constructed, urgently compelling essay on the present and future of our local law enforcement.


ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

The son of a SWAT team commander, multi-faceted documentary filmmaker Craig Atkinson is a producer, editor and cinematographer. Atkinson recognized a drastic change in the vehicles, weapons and tactics used by domestic law enforcement in the age of "The War on Terror" and set out to bear witness to that change through the multi-award-winning "Do Not Resist." Previously Atkinson has worked on "Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You," "Detropia," a Sundance award-winning exploration about the city of Detroit trying to re-invent itself in a post-manufacturing United States and "12th and Delaware," an HBO film that takes a compelling look at the ongoing abortion debate in America. Craig holds a MA in Visual Media Arts from Emerson College. "Do Not Resist" is his directorial debut.

Tribeca Film Festival — Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary Feature
Indianapolis Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize Best Documentary Feature
Denver Starz Film Festival – Maysles Brothers Best Documentary Award
Hot Docs Film Festival — Official Selection
AFI Silverdocs — Official Selection

"An eye-opening experience. The film takes a series of events that might appear unrelated—the heavy-handed police response to the demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014; the use of heavily armed swat teams in South Carolina to carry out routine drug arrests—and shows that they are part of a pattern that has taken hold in many police departments across the country."The New Yorker

"This doc is a vital record of an America transitioning to martial law so quickly and stealthily that we're barely acknowledging the change."AV Club

"One of the most relevant and valuable documentaries of the year."AwardsCircuit.com

"In this new and vital documentary, Craig Atkinson interrogates what is happening in American police departments and why cops' presence on the streets looks more and more like war."Village Voice