Film Sampler Series: “Passin’ It On”
Join us for Film Sampler, a series of film screenings focused on themes of protest and resistance. Snacks! Signed posters and DVD giveaways!
Watch a screening of Passin’ It On (1993, 60 min), followed by a Talk Back with Director John J. Valadez. Come at 4:30 for pre-film snacks or even earlier to see earlier screenings planned for this day.
A soulful and gritty film, Passin’ It On tells of a Black Panther Party leader, framed by the FBI for a crime he didn’t commit. Dhoruba bin Wahad emerged from the ghettoes and gangs of the South Bronx to serve breakfast to school children with one hand while wielding a gun in the other. Bristling with poetry and pain, this landmark film of an American political prisoner, speaks of a movement, not only a man. Passin’ It On is the winner of over twenty international awards including the Michael Moore Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
These screenings are free and open to the public, no registration or ticket required.
Film Sampler, organized in partnership with the U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM), is offered in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition American Sampler: Activating the Archive.
SCHEDULE Of EVENTS:
2:00pm
- Screening: 19 (2025, 8 min) and Sir! No Sir! (2005, 90 min). Followed by a Talk Back with Directors David Zeiger and Galileha Calvario-Zavala
4:30pm
- Intermission (Snacks Provided)
5:00pm
- Screening: Passin’ It On (1993, 60 min). Followed by a Talk Back with Director John J. Valadez
More About the Film
Passin’ It On
A soulful and gritty film, Passin’ It On tells of a Black Panther Party leader, framed by the FBI for a crime he didn’t commit. Dhoruba bin Wahad emerged from the ghettoes and gangs of the South Bronx to serve breakfast to school children with one hand while wielding a gun in the other. Bristling with poetry and pain this, landmark film of an American political prisoner, speaks of a movement, not only a man.
SUPPORT
Lead support for American Sampler is provided by Joseph and Annette Allen, Nicole and Matthew Lester, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Susan and Richard Gutow, U-M Arts Initiative, U-M Institute for the Humanities, the Mary L. Wolter Welz Fund, and the Marvin H. and Mary M. Davidson Endowed Fund. Additional generous support is provided by U-M CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity Inclusive History Project, U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Engagement, U-M Department of History, and U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.
