Film Showing: "Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa"

February 9, 12:00pm - 1:45pm
Mānoa Campus, Law School, Classroom 3

Abby Ginzberg芒鈧劉s powerful documentary begins with grainy video footage of the aftermath of the car bombing that nearly took the life of South African activist, writer, and lawyer Albie Sachs. Sachs lost an arm and his sight in one eye following the 1988 attack carried out by South Africa芒鈧劉s apartheid government. Born into a privileged Jewish family, Sachs was a teenager when he became a human rights advocate. Later, as a lawyer he defended black and white South Africans against the country芒鈧劉s repressive laws. It wasn芒鈧劉t long before Sachs found himself in solitary confinement. Sachs spent the next quarter century in exile, returning to South Africa in the dramatic days that swept Nelson Mandela into power. Mandela subsequently named Sachs as one of the first members of his Constitutional Court. Sachs芒鈧劉s lifelong pursuit of truth and reconciliation eventually led to a meeting with the man who planted the bomb that nearly killed him.

Q+A Session with Director Abby Ginzberg following the showing.

In addition to her award-wining脗聽Soft Vengeance,脗聽ABBY GINZBERG脗聽has produced and directed two other award-winning feature-length documentaries about judicial trailblazers芒鈧漇oul of Justice脗聽profiled Thelton Henderson, one of the first African-American federal judges who is currently overseeing the reform of medical care in California prisons; and脗聽Sowing the Seeds of Justice,脗聽about Cruz Reynoso,脗聽one of 11 children in a farmworker family who became the first Latino appointed to the California Supreme Court.脗聽Her thought-provoking films seek to inspire audiences to follow in the footsteps of those who have committed themselves to transforming the societies in which they live.


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William S. Richardson School of Law, Mānoa Campus

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