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Dreams deferred : the Sakia Gunn film project / Eamonn Simone Films and Third World Newsreel present ; a film by Charles Bennett Brack ; producer, Sam Castrillo.
LIBRA DVD 018 340
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gunn, Sakia, 1987-2003.
- Gunn, Sakia.
- African American lesbians--Crimes against--New Jersey--Newark.
- African American lesbians.
- African American gay people--Crimes against--New Jersey--Newark.
- African American gay people.
- Lesbians--Crimes against--New Jersey--Newark.
- Lesbians.
- Victims of hate crimes--New Jersey--Newark.
- Victims of hate crimes.
- Trials (Hate crimes)--New Jersey--Newark.
- Trials (Hate crimes).
- Lesbians--Crimes against.
- New Jersey--Newark.
- New Jersey.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Sakia Gunn film project
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, [2008]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Sakia Gunn was a 15-year old African American lesbian who was murdered in a hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. On the night of May 11, 2003, Gunn was returning from a night out at the Christopher Street Piers in Greenwich Village, New York City with her friends. While waiting for the New Jersey Transit bus at the corner of Broad and Market Streets in downtown Newark, Gunn and her friend were propositioned by two men."--Film introduction.
- Credits:
- Camera, Dorothy Thigpen, Aljernon Tunsil; editor, Felix Rodriguez; music, John "Kojak" Negron.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2008.
- Container erroneously notes program length as 58 minutes.
- Aspect ratio varies.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- OCLC:
- 236165407
- Online:
- publisher's website
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