The Strike

Name: The Strike
Start: 2024-05-18
End: 2024-05-18
Location: AFS Cinema THEATER #2

genres:

Activism

Documentary

Incarceration

Amidst the redwood trees on the California-Oregon border sits one of the most infamous prisons in US history - Pelican Bay. For decades, it held mostly Black and Brown men alone in tiny cells for indefinite periods based on questionable evidence. Then one day in 2013, 30,000 prisoners went on hunger strike. THE STRIKE weaves together, thread-by-thread, a half century of personal and criminal justice history into a single, compelling narrative around the drama of the 2013 hunger strike to end indefinite isolation. Grounded in testimonies from the hunger strikers themselves, the film details how the protest was conceived from a whisper inside the halls of Pelican Bay to a colossal feat across California prisons. With unprecedented access to state prison officials and never-before-seen footage from inside Pelican Bay, THE STRIKE reveals the panic that gripped the highest echelons of state government.

DIRECTOR(S)JoeBill Muñoz, Lucas Guilkey

DIRECTOR(S) BIOGRAPHYJOEBILL MUÑOZ is a Mexican-American documentary filmmaker that has directed short films for Independent Lens (Maletero and Evidence Lost) and NBC (Follow the Sun), and produced feature films and television series, including The Grab (TIFF 2022), The Circus (Showtime), The New York Times Presents (Hulu) and an upcoming series with Left/Right Media and HBO. His work has been supported through fellowships from the Sundance Institute, New America, Firelight Media, SFFILM and Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. — LUCAS GUILKEY is an award-winning documentary film producer and journalist based in Oakland, California. He recently served as story producer on AFTERSHOCK, a feature documentary about the US maternal health crisis that premiered at Sundance in 2022 and is streaming on Hulu/Disney+. His directorial debut, WHAT HAPPENED TO DUJUAN ARMSTRONG?, a short documentary about the coverup of a young man’s death in county jail, won best documentary at the BAFTA student film awards.

Q&A with co-directors JoeBill Muñoz & Lucas Guilkey will follow the screening.