The Barrel of a Gun - Screening & Panel Discussion

Don't miss this one-night-only public screening of the highly acclaimed and controversial documentary “The Barrel of a Gun," which painstakingly explores what filmmaker Tigre Hill boldly asserts was the premeditated December 1981 killing of Police Officer Daniel Faulkner and the subsequent conviction of long time death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal. A thoughtful debate concerning the contentious and divisive legal case will immediately follow by Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams and attorney/activist Michael Coard. Lynn Doyle, Emmy award winning host of the Comcast Network’s “It’s Your Call” will moderate the discussion. Tigre Hill will also be on hand to answer questions and provide insight into the production of the documentary and his choices as filmmaker.

This showing of “The Barrel of a Gun” and subsequent dialogue between Williams and Coard are purposely planned a day prior to the arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit for a new sentence hearing for Mumia Abu-Jamal. On January 19, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a federal appeals court ruling that threw out Abu-Jamal's death sentence because of a confusingly worded verdict instruction that arguably led the jury to a sentence of death over life in prison.