The Least of These plays tomorrow at the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival. If you’re around, check it out. For more about the film, check out my last post.
Saturday | March 28 | 3pm |Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center
Over the past couple years, I’ve worked as the director of photography and co-produer on The Least of These, a documentary about the Hutto immigrant family detention center outside of Austin, Texas. The film tells an amazing story about how the U.S. government decided to start putting immigrant children, together with their families, behind bars in a prison-like setting and the legal battle that Barbara Hines of the University of Texas law school, together with the ACLU, waged against the government to shut down the facility.
The Least of These is making its world premiere at the SXSW film festival here in Austin next week. There will be a Q&A after each screening featuring the Clark Lyda and Jesse Lyda (the directors), Barbara Hines of the University of Texas School of Law, Michelle Brané of the Women’s Refugee Commission, and former detainees. The film was produced by Clark Lyda, Jesse Lyda and Marcy Garriott.
Here’s the SXSW screening schedule:
Monday March 16, 11 am, Alamo Ritz (320 E. 6th St.)
Wednesday March 18, 7 pm, Alamo South Lamar (1120 S. Lamar Blvd.)
Friday March 20, 11 am, Paramount (713 Congress Ave.)
Admission is with a SXSW film badge, SXSW film pass, or single ticket (available at each venue 30 minutes before the screening time; price $10).
For more information and to see the trailer, visit The Least of These Web site.
After the premiere, the film will be distributed to the educational/institutional market by Cinema Guild, and to the home video and download-to-own markets by Indiepix. It will also be available for on-line streaming by SnagFilms. Additional festival and semi-theatrical screenings across the country will be posted on the film’s Web site.
