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In Prison My Whole Life is a 2008 documentary film

Documentary film

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about Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate", and his sentence is one of the most debated today...

. Mumia was arrested the day William Francome was born. When Francome made this film he was 25 years old and Mumia was still on death row.

It has been made by film director Marc Evans

Marc Evans

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, writer William Francome and acclaimed actor Colin Firth

Colin Firth

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(as the film's executive producer). Others involved with the project were Angela Davis

Angela Davis

Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was most politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party...

, Anthony Arnove

Anthony Arnove

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, Dead Prez

Dead Prez

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, Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn

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, Mos Def

Mos Def

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, Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

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, Robert Meeropol

Robert Meeropol

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, Russell Simmons

Russell Simmons

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, Snoop Dogg

Snoop Dogg

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and Steve Earle

Steve Earle

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About

A look at the life of imprisoned political activist and former Black Panther member, Mumia Abu-Jamal, whose death sentence for killing a police officer was overturned in 2001 due to errors made during his original 1982 sentencing hearing. An investigation of American history and the justice system through the case of death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Awards

The film has been shown at film festivals, as well as other showings, and was nominated in 2008 for 'World Cinema - Documentary' with the award of 'Grand Jury Prize' at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

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The film premiered in France, a country highly supportive of Mumia Abu-Jamal's case, in October 2008 (LYFE / Festival Hors-Ecran) and was subsequently released by the festival in more than 20 towns.

At the 2009 International Festival of Cinema on Human Rights in Paris, 'In Prison...' won the Student Award and the Planet Award.

The film is having a nationwide release in France on 23d of November 2011.Official website

External links

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