The documentary also received two nominations at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, including the local jury award. “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America,” which bowed at SXSW and won the audience award is now nominated by the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) for best picture. ![]() “I walked out of that conference room and would never see the world the same again,” Sarah Kunstler remembers, adding that her first thought was, “How can I help Jeffery get this to the largest audience possible?” Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE: A Chronicle of Racism in America, criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson. ![]() It was an abbreviated version of the presentation on the history of racism in America that Robinson gives on lecture tours around the country, in which he says the failure of white people to oppose the oppression of Black people is akin to condoning the idea of white supremacy. When filmmaker and lawyer Sarah Kunstler heard a speech by ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson at a legal education seminar, she wasn’t prepared for the words to change her life. The filmmakers have spent their lives immersed in the civil rights movement, first as the daughters of “The Trial of the Chicago 7” attorney William Kunstler, and then forging their own careers crafting documentaries on criminal justice.
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