Uprize! Film Screening and Conversation

Covering the story of a 1976 student protest and their violent confrontation with South African police, Uprize! tells the political, social, and cultural conditions that shaped the uprising, how those ideas were transformed into liberatory action, and how those actions helped shape the democratic society we live in today. 

Sandra Rattley has over 40 years experience leading and launching multimedia projects. She was executive producer, director and writer of Searching for Augusta Savage, a 23-minute documentary about the prolific sculptor, who was one of the most influential contributors to the Harlem Renaissance and leading artist in the U.S., the lead film for a new PBS series, “American Masters Shorts.” Rattley was also executive producer, director and writer for Unladylike2020, an animated documentary series about unsung women who changed America over a hundred years ago, which premiered on PBS’s biography series American Masters timed to the centennial of women’s suffrage and…