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This event is part of the Black Bottom Film Festival. Purchase a Festival Pass for access to free vouchers to this screening. 

A Q&A with director Jamal Joseph will follow the screening

“Chapter & Verse” director Jamal Joseph is a full Professor of Professional Practice and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. He is the Executive Artistic Director of New Heritage Theater and Films and the Founder of the acclaimed Impact Repertory Youth Theater of Harlem and a Co-Founding Partner of the Harlem Film Company (HFC). He is an alum of the Sundance Directing Lab and the Third World Newsreel Film and Video Workshop. He serves on the advisory boards of the Writers Guild Initiative, Imagenation, the Ghetto Film School and the Maysles Film Institute. Jamal credits his time spent in the Black Panther Party and Leavenworth Federal Prison as the fire the forged his creative sword. While in prison he earned two college degrees, wrote five plays, two volumes of poetry and founded a ground breaking theater company that brought prisoners together who previously been divided by race, culture and violence.