Still from Profiled
Still from Profiled
 

Profiled

by Kathleen Foster
PROFILED bears witness to the everyday racist violence experienced by PoC communities in the U.S. & gives us a window into one of the burning issues of our time.
2016  ·  53m  ·  United States
English
English subs
About the Film
PROFILED knits the stories of mothers of black and Latin youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Some of the victims—Eric Garner, Michael Brown—are now familiar the world over. Others, like Shantel Davis and Kimani Gray, are remembered mostly by family and friends in their New York neighborhoods. We experience the grief families suffer in the face of such tragedies, the struggles women confront raising children in segregated neighborhoods that present few options for the young, and their anger and frustration at a justice system that often seems pitted against them. The women organize vigils and rallies to keep the memory of their loved ones alive and seek indictments of the officers responsible for the deaths. As their demands for justice are ignored, they transition from grieving parents to activists who join the growing grassroots movement against police brutality and racial profiling that since the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, is now spreading across the country.  Moving interviews with victims’ family members are juxtaposed with sharply etched analyses by evolutionary biologist, Joseph L. Graves, Jr. (The Race Myth) and civil rights lawyer, Chauniqua D. Young, (Center for Constitutional Rights, Stop and Frisk lawsuit). Ranging from the routine harassment of minority students in an affluent Brooklyn neighborhood to the killings and protests in Staten Island and Ferguson, Missouri, PROFILED bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for Black and Latin people in this country and gives us a window on one of the burning issues of our time.
Upcoming Screenings

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Festivals and Awards
2016
Workers Unite Film Festival , Best Documentary Feature
Seattle Transmedia and Independent Film Festival, Official Selection
Reel Awareness Human Rights Film Festival, Official Selection
2017
San Diego Black Film Festival, Official Selection
Editor
William Lehman
Associate Producer
Makia Harper
Producer
Kathleen Foster
Sound Editor
Harold Batista
Camera
Don Mount, Fivel Rothenberg, Jesus Villalba, Kjerstin Rossi, Marcelle Bonaparte, Messiah Rhodes, Samantha Riddell and Shanika Powell

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