Screening of Remand and Q&A with Producer Randy Brewer
Join us on Monday, 2/17 for a special screening of Remand, winner of the Best Documentary award at the 2017 African Festival Festival, and a Q&A with producer Randy Brewer.
On a 2010 service trip to Uganda, California lawyer and law professor Jim Gash met Henry Tumusiime, a seventeen-year old boy who had already spent two years in a Ugandan prison, awaiting trial for two murders he did not commit. The two struck up a friendship, and since then, Gash has traveled to Uganda nearly 30 times to advocate for Tumusiime’s innocence and that of other individuals in the justice system. Ultimately, Tumusiime was exonerated, and Gash established a partnership between Pepperdine University—he was recently appointed the L.A. University’s president—and the Ugandan Judiciary to provide legal support and due process to Ugandans awaiting trial. This partnership has been instrumental in the resolution of over 8,000 cases, and has changed conversations about criminal justice around the world.
The award-winning documentary captures Gash and Tumusiime’s friendship, their struggle for exoneration, and the ongoing efforts to reform the criminal justice system in Uganda. The Curb Center will be screening it at 5:00 p.m. on 2/17 as part of our Form of Reform exhibit, up through June.
Written by John Shakespear
Posted February 14, 2020