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Tickets are currently on sale for 'In Prison My Whole Life' at the BFI Southbank in London on the 19th of June. It will be followed by a panel discussion featuring a special guest at the Southbank Centre.

This screening is part of the Meltdown Festival curated by Massive Attack Meltdown Festival http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/meltdown/

Official Film Website www.inprisonmywholelife.com

In Prison My Whole Life, has just won the best film prize at the Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights.
Hi,
My name is William Francome. I was born on December 9th 1981, during a snow storm in London. At almost exactly the same time over three thousand miles away in Philadelphia, a police officer was shot and killed. A prominent journalist was also shot at the scene and was subsequently arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
The journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, has always protested his innocence, however during a trial that has been criticised for it's flaws, he was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. He has been on death row ever since and has become America's most famous death row inmate. As an author of 5 books from prison and a regular broadcaster (over the phone from death row) he has become a lightning rod for those on both sides of the political divide, not only in the U.S but around the world. He has won the backing of Amnesty International and Nelson Mandela while at the same time receiving scorn from many who consider it an affront to celebrate a convicted murderer.
Now... I'm going on a journey to find out more about what might have happened that night, about the city where it all took place and about the political and moral turmoil that surrounds the case....I'm going to find out about the man who's been in prison my whole life.
Festivals and Screenings
In Prison My Whole Life is currently touring different film festivals worldwide.
London Film Festival Oct, 2007
Rome Film Festival Oct, 2007
Sundance Film Festival Jan, 2008
Dublin Film Festival Feb, 2008
Geneva Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights Mar, 2008 Winner - Best Film
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Mar, 2008
NatFilm Festival, Copenhagen Mar, 2008
Belfast Film Festival Apr, 2008
Britspotting Film Festival, Germany Apr 12 +16th and May 2nd, 2008
Third Eye Cinema w/ Amnesty International, Clapham, London Apr 29th 2008
Meltdown Festival, Southbank, London June 19th 2008
Agit-Doc at the Four Elements Festival, Graz, Austria June 27th 2008
Links
As well as watching the Trailer for the film and spreading the word, if you have a moment, please check out the following websites:
Amnesty International
National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty
The Campaign To End The Death Penalty
Mumia Abu-Jamal on Wikipedia
Reprieve
Save Troy Davis
Democracy Now
The Mobilization to Free Mumia
Free The Jena 6
Voice Of A Peoples History of America
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Movies:

In Prison My Whole Life

BEST FILM - Geneva Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights
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In Prison My Whole Life
A Nana Films Presentation in Association with Fandango, The Maverick Lloyd Foundation, The Wales Creative IP Fund and Ivo Coulson
Directed by Marc Evans
Produced by Livia Giuggioli Firth Nick Goodwin Self
Co-produced by John Battsek and Domenico Procacci
Executive Producers Arthur Berndt Ivo Coulson Colin Firth Linda James
Written by Marc Evans and William Francome
Based on an Idea by William Francome and Katie Green
Editor Mags Arnold
Director of Photography Ari Issler
Graphics by Foreign Office
Original Score by Davidge/Del Naja
Original songs by Snoop Dogg

Television:

Likes
Films
Documentaries: The Fog of War, Bus 174, Taking Liberties, Death in Gaza, Mr. Death, Sicko, Bowling for Columbine, My Architect, Supersize Me, Shake Hands With The Devil, The God Who Wasn't There, Battle for the Holy Land (Channel 4), Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, Grizzly Man, Paradise Lost, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Rize, Ghosts of Cite Soleil
Other
Snowcake, Redemption Man, My Little Eye - In fact go out and rent anything by Marc Evans, Willow (for Ollie), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Half Nelson, The Big Lebowski, Twenty Four Seven
Books
Top of the list has to be Twelve Bar Blues by Patrick Neate and It's worth picking up anything else he's ever written, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Cloud Atlas, We Did Nothing, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, Can't Stop Won't Stop, Obviously Mumia's Books especially Live from Death Row, The God of Small Things, Amy Goodman's Books, Noam Chomsky's work, Anthony Arnove's 'Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal', A people's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Chuck Palahniuk's work, Mark Thomas, Richard Dawkins, Gore Vidal, Studs Terkel, Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo Dallaire (only ook to also feature on my doc list), Freakonomics, Last Man Standing (about Geronimo Pratt), Illusions, Haruki Muakami, The Giro Playboy, Irvine Welsh, Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness.
For books by Mumia or about Mumia's case read Killing Time by Dave Lindorff, Race Against Death by Michael Schiffman, Ona Move by Terry Bisson, Executing Justice by Dan Williams, The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life Hangs In The Balance by Amnesty International
And Books by Mumia are Live From Death Row, All Things Censored, Death Blossoms, We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party, Faith of our Fathers and coming soon a book about Jail House Lawyers in Association with Legal Action for Women and the Global Women's Strike.

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Press and Interviews

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My Blog

Legal Update from Robert R. Bryan

The following legal update from Mumia's lawyer, Robert R. Bryan was received today. Please give it a read to understand the current state of affairs and also circulate if possible.Thanks, Will Date: ...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:55:00 PST

Philly Cops Beat Suspects

When we were filming 'In Prison My Whole Life' in Philadelphia, people would often say they thought it had the worst friction between the police and the African American community. The problems with p...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:57:00 PST

Clapham and Belfast Screenings

Recently, 'In Prison My Whole Life' has enjoyed another few successful screenings in London and Belfast. First of all, we were invited to screen the film as part of the Belfast International Film Fes...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:36:00 PST

Livia Giuggioli on Judge Ambro

Livia, our film’s producer has written a blog about the dissenting voice of Judge Ambro of the Third Circuit court of appeals in yesterday’s Huffington Post. Judge Ambro was one of the thr...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:49:00 PST

Amnesty on the Mumia Decision and Three Great Articles

Amnesty International have released a statement regarding the third circuit court of appeals decision on Mumia’s case last week. Amnesty have long been involved in the case and have long called ...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

Third Circuit Decision in Mumias Case

Yesterday the third circuit court of appeals decided on Mumia’s case. The three judge panel upheld the conviction for 1st degree murder but also upheld a 2001 ruling that changed his death sente...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:06:00 PST

Message from Clive Stafford Smith

I have recently had the pleasure of working with an NGO based in London called Reprieve. For years Reprieve have worked on the cases of death row inmates in a legal fashion as well as workin...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:37:00 PST

Stop Possible Execution of an Innocent Man

Today’s stunning decision by the Georgia Supreme Court to let the death sentence stand in the Troy Anthony Davis case means that the state of Georgia might execute a man who well may be innocent...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:16:00 PST

Alternative Spring Break

Instead of too much drinking and partying this spring break, you could go and spend the week off of college or high school getting involved and raising issues that you care about. campus progress are ...
Posted by In Prison My Whole Life on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:22:00 PST