Screening of Ava DuVernay's film 'Selma' with an introduction by Tola Dabiri, part of the 'Hidden Beach: Winter of Culture' series at the Electric Palace.
Electric Palace is screening Selma on Sunday 29 November, with an introduction by Tola Dabiri. It's part of Hidden Beach: Winter of Culture, a film series curated by Remi Vibesman at the cinema.
Selma is Ava DuVernay's 2014 biopic of Martin Luther King Jr., played by David Oyelowo. It focuses on a specific, high-stakes stretch of time: the three months in 1965 when King led the fight to secure equal voting rights in the US. That campaign culminated in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, which put enough pressure on President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Along with Oyelowo, the cast includes Carmen Ejogo, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tim Roth. The film runs 128 minutes and is rated 12A.
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It's not a one-off, either. Selma is one of several titles Remi Vibesman has programmed for Hidden Beach: Winter of Culture at the Electric Palace, which has also screened Denzel Washington's Fences, Alex Dibney's Finding Fela and Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat. The session runs from 15:00 to 17:15, with Tola Dabiri introducing the film before it starts. You'll find the cinema at 39a High Street, Hastings TN34 3ER.
