36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime - Film Screening & Q+A

FILM SYNOPSIS

In 2015, three Muslim-American students were executed while eating dinner in their home in Chapel Hill, NC. In 36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime, filmmaker Tarek Albaba makes an impassioned case for justice for these innocents and for his community. The film charts the victims’ families’ agonizing overnight pivot from trauma to advocacy as they struggle to prevent their loved ones’ deaths from being dismissed as the result of a random parking dispute.

They courageously speak the truth about the hate crime that has destroyed their lives, about the overt and insidious ways racism plays out in our society and about the need to reform a hate crime system that is broken. This is a project about grace and the will to fight for the truth in the worst of circumstances.

More about the film: https://www.36secondsfilm.com/

SCREENING DETAILS

The D.C. premiere of the award winning film "36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime" is presented by Zeteo and sponsored by the Our Three Winners Foundation.

Award-winning journalist and Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan will host a Q&A after the screening with Dr. Suzanne Barakat, the sister of Deah and Razan; Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute; and Manar Waheed, associate general counsel of civil rights at Facebook and former senior counsel at the ACLU. The filmmakers will also be in attendance.

The film screening will be taking place in Auditorium 4.

PARKING: Three hours of reduced rate parking ($12.00) is available at the adjacent garage (entrance on 11th Street between "E" & "F" Streets) when you validate your parking ticket at the box office. Validation is honored when you enter after 5:00 PM Monday through Friday and anytime on weekends and holidays. Parkers who exceed the 3 hour limit or enter before 5:00 PM on weekdays will be charged the garage’s posted flat rate, now $24.00.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: 100% metro accessible from the Silver, Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Yellow lines at the Metro Center and/or Gallery Place/Chinatown metro stops!