feature: ‘minister of self-defense’, my film project about huey p. newton

Hello Afropunk community, I have a film campaign at JuntoBox Films for “Minister of Self Defense”, my feature film screenplay about Huey P. Newton of The Black Panther Party – the baddest motherfucker in civil rights history. Junto Box Films is Forrest Whitaker’s online film production company. The project has reached Level 3 so please follow and star the campaign. You can read a scene, The Mulford Act when Huey is confronted by Representative Mulford on the Black Panther patrols, 2nd  Amendment rights and the laws of open carry. Huey and Bobby Seale decided to challenge the new law by going in protest to the Sacramento Capitol with their guns. This is a powerful scene from the feature length script (approximately 100 pages). This will be a film that addresses America’s current struggles through the lenses of tumult that defined Huey’s world in the 1960’s.  Police brutality, government surveillance, gun laws, access to healthcare, questions about the value of life. This campaign is the first step in a journey to make a feature film, which you can also support via Indiegogo (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/minister-of-self-defense).  Let’s make a movie Huey would love: hip, political and fearless.

By Yvonna Russell, AFROPUNK Contributor 

* http://igg.me/at/ministerofselfdefense

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  Twitter: @hueypnewtonfilm