Preview of the film Directing Dissent
by Sophie Hamacher
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave., Baltimore, MD 21224
October 4th 2012
7:30 pm
The film will be followed by a panel discussion, led by filmmaker Sophie Hamacher and the film’s protagonist, John Roemer.
The event is free and open to the public.
Directing Dissent is a documentary about John Roemer, teacher and social activist, and his decisions to either live within the law, or have a sound basis for civil disobedience. Set in Baltimore, a city with a turbulent history of charged race relations, Roemer’s story takes us through the heated battles of the civil rights movement and involves dramatic experiences in the fight to desegregate Maryland.