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** Good context for orienting folks to the reasons for the hunger and work strike -- and right on time. Mary Ratcliff SF Bay View(415) 671-0789www.sfbayview.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: A prisoner's story: Black Panther in solitary confinement for 40 years, July 8 on PBS Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:02:05 +0000 From: POV Communications <pov_communicati...@mail.vresp.com> <pov_communicati...@mail.vresp.com> Reply-To: POV Communications <reply-f414a3831f-07d05331cd-8...@u.cts.vresp.com><reply-f414a3831f-07d05331cd-8...@u.cts.vresp.com> To: edi...@sfbayview.com [image: pov logo] POV Communications: 212-989-7425<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/b1ee6e55e7>. Emergency contact: 646-729-4748<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/93cbdf467b> communicati...@pov.org; Cathy Fisher, cfis...@pov.org; Amanda Nguyen, angu...@pov.org<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/0b685c4fb4> POV online pressroom: www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/29f3c7605c/POVAmericanDocumenta/0b89339bf5/ab2e50a29b/30182ce1a5> POVs Hermans House Is a Moving Story of Resilience in Prison and the Transformative Power of Art, Monday, July 8, 2013 on PBS Man in Solitary Confinement for More Than 40 Years Builds a Life-changing Relationship With a New York Artist *A Co-presentation With the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).* [image: hermans_house_low_res] Photo by Storyline Entertainment A portrait of an invisible man. . . . equal parts social protest, conceptual cinema and criminal-justice critique.John Anderson, *Variety* Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in the United Stateshes spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery he admits, he was subsequently sentenced to life for a killing he vehemently denies. *Hermans House*<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/c398970ca6>is a moving account of the expression his struggle found in an unusual project proposed by artist Jackie Sumell. Imagining Wallaces dream home began as a game and became an interrogation of justice and punishment in America. The film takes us inside the duos unlikely 12-year friendship, revealing the transformative power of art. Angad Singh Bhallas *Hermans House*<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/95274cba04>has its national broadcast premiere on * Monday, July 8, 2013* at 10 p.m. (check local listings)<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/1f89003a74>, as part of the 26th season of the award-winning PBS series *POV* (*Point of View*)<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/fb5c81c263>. The film will stream on POVs website, www.pbs.org/pov/hermanshouse<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/d58d4a0628>, from July 9 Aug. 6. Visit the website to embed a trailer and download art, press releases, a discussion guide and lesson plan. American televisions longest-running independent documentary series, POV was honored with a 2013 MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Wallace, a former Black Panther, was accused in 1972 of the murder of prison guard Brent Miller, as was Albert Woodfox; both were placed in solitary and subsequently convicted. They and Black Panther Robert King (also placed in solitary and convicted of a different murder) were imprisoned in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola) and became famous as the Angola 3. King was freed in 2001, and in February 2013 a judge ordered the release of Woodfox. Except for a brief period, Wallace has remained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day and has continued to appeal his murder conviction. In 2002, he received a letter that asked an extraordinary question. Jackie Sumell, a young New York artist, wrote, What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell for over 30 years dream of? Sumells initial query led to hundreds of letters and phone calls between her and Wallace. The first result was the art installation The House That Herman Built, which made its debut in Germany in 2006. It featured a full-scale wooden model of Wallaces cell, in which gallery attendees were encouraged to spend time, and detailed plans for Wallaces dream home. That was just the first step in an unpredictable, life-changing 12-year journey. *Hermans House* features audio of the phone calls between Wallace and Sumell, a riveting record of a prisoners resilience after decades of solitude and of a young artists determination to tell his story. Things take a dramatic turn when Wallace asks Sumell to make his dream a reality. She upends her life in New York to move to New Orleans, where she starts scouting land and planning to build a real Hermans house. Wallace is currently incarcerated in the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in Louisiana. There are 2.3 million people in jail in the United States, says filmmaker Angad Singh Bhalla. More than 80,000 of those are in solitary confinement. *Hermans House* is an effort to humanize at least one person behind bars. Herman Wallace is a brother, a mentor, an artistic collaborator and, most importantly for Jackie Sumell, a friend. Their art project creates a safe space for us to examine the racial and class divisions that underlie American justice. *Angad Singh Bhalla, Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer * Angad Singh Bhalla specializes in film projects that highlight rarely heard voices. After spending months with Indian villagers who had been resisting a mining project backed by the Canadian company Alcan, he produced his first independent project, *U.A.I.L. Go Back*, which was used widely as an organizing tool in the campaign against the project. Bhalla has since worked on videos for such organizations as Human Rights Watch and several labor unions. His short documentary on the lives of Indian street artists, *Writings on the Wall*, garnered awards at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival and the Columbus Film + Video Festival. It was broadcast nationally on Canadas Bravo network and Indias NDTV and internationally on Al Jazeera English. *Hermans House* is Bhallas first feature documentary. When not making films, he works as a community organizer within faith communities. Bhalla was born in Toronto to Punjabi immigrants and studied at Stanford University, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in cultural and social anthropology. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife, Lavanya Chekuru, a physician. *Jackie Sumell, Artist, Film Subject* Jackie Sumell was born in Brooklyn in 1973 and grew up in Long Island, New York. Her multidisciplinary work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Space NY, deYoung Museum, Royal College of Art and Dublin County Museum. Arecipient of several residencies and awards including Akademie Schloss Solitude, and InContext-3 (Ireland), Sumell published two books, *A=AGHT *(2008) and *The House That Herman Built *(2006/2008). She received a bachelor of science degree from the College of Charleston and master of fine arts degree from Stanford University. Sumell currently resides in New Orleans, where she continues to work on Herman's House and several other advocacy-based projects. Visit www.pbs.org/pov/hermanshouse/<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/1614bc7a7f> for downloadable art, an embeddable trailer, press materials and more. *About POV* Produced by American Documentary, Inc. and beginning its 26th season on PBS in 2013, the award-winning POV is the longest-running showcase on American television to feature the work of todays best independent documentary filmmakers. POV has brought more than 365 acclaimed documentaries to millions nationwide. POV films have won every major film and broadcasting award, including 32 Emmys, 15 George Foster Peabody Awards, 10 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, three Academy Awards® and the Prix Italia. In 2012, POV achieved a new milestone, winning five News & Documentary Emmy® Awards. Since 1988, POV has pioneered the art of presentation and outreach using independent nonfiction media to build new communities in conversation about todays most pressing social issues. Visit www.pbs.org/pov<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?POVAmericanDocumenta/f414a3831f/07d05331cd/fbfde585bc/POVAmericanDocumenta/0b89339bf5/ab2e50a29b/82388ccdf0> . POV has the honor of receiving a 2013 MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. Major funding for POV is provided by PBS, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the desJardins/Blachman Fund and public television viewers. Funding for POV's Diverse Voices Project is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Special support provided by The Fledgling Fund and the Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund. 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