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Out in the night

Title

Out in the night / ITVS ; New Day Films ; a production of The Fire This Time, Fork Films, G6 Pictures, Promised Land Films ; producer, Giovanna Chesler, Mridu Chandra, Yoruba Richen ; a film by Blair Dorosh-Walther.

Publication

[United States] : The Fire This Time The Film, LLC, [2014]
[New York] : New Day Films, [2014]
©2014

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	C.1	Moving image	By appointment only	DVDR 2077 O C.1 C.1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Reserve Film and Video

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Description

1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"The story of 4 friends, out for a night in NYC, who became known as a "Gang of Killer Lesbians" when they defended themselves."--Kickstarter campaign page.
"Out in the Night is a documentary that tells the story of a group of young friends, African American lesbians who are out, one hot August night in 2006, in the gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They are all in their late teens and early twenties and come from a low-income neighborhood in Newark, New Jersey. Two of the women are the focus -- gender non-conforming Renata Hill, a single mother with a soft heart and keen sense of humor, and petite femme Patreese Johnson, a shy and tender poet. As they and their friends walk under the hot neon lights of tattoo parlors in the West Village, an older man sexually and violently confronts them. He says to Patreese "let me get some of that" as he points below her waist. When she says that they are gay, the man becomes violent and threatens to "fuck them straight". He spits and throws a lit cigarette. Renata and Venice defend the group and a fight begins, captured by security cameras nearby. The man yanks out hair from Venice's head and chokes Renata. Then, Patreese pulls a knife from her purse and swings at him. Strangers jump in to defend the women and the fight escalates. As the fight comes to an end, all get up and walk away. But 911 has been called and the man involved has a puncture wound from the knife. Police swarm to the scene as their radios blast out warning of a gang attack. The women are rounded up and charged with gang assault, assault and attempted murder. Three of the women plead guilty. But Renata, Patreese, Venice and Terrain claim their innocence. They are called a "Gang of Killer Lesbians" by the media. In activist circles they become known as The New Jersey 4 (NJ4). Through the lives of these four young women, Out in the Night reveals how their race, gender identity and sexuality became criminalized in the mainstream news media and criminal legal system."--The filmmaker's website.

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Genre/Form

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.

Note

Originally produced in the United States as a motion picture and released in 2014.

Access (note)

[On some copies]: "For library and classroom use only; not for broadcast, resale, public exhibition or special events; do not duplicate.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Daniel Patterson ; editor, Kristen Huntley, Sarah Devorkin ; original score, Mario Grigorov ; with music by Toshi Reagon.

System Details (note)

DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital 2.0.

Language (note)

In English; optional subtitles in Spanish, French, and Arabic; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Contents

Out in the night -- "This is my friends, this is my family" -- "There's no calling the police, because they never come" -- "It's a safe haven for us" -- "No means no" -- "I was scared" -- "I claimed self-defense" -- "The headline writers had a very good time" -- "Gays taking over" -- "You woulda thought it was a movie" -- I'll be there and back again -- "You're considered state property" -- "Young, black, lesbian...and always on guard" -- "We gotta be repeating history" -- "Free the NJ4!" -- "We won our appeal" -- "I look like a human being now I'm not an inmate" -- "They said, 'Pack up, you're going home'" -- "It's all nonsense" -- "I felt alive" -- "I'm ready to go" -- "NJ4 Finally Free"

ISBN

9781574484137
1574484133

OCLC

957469331

Title

Publisher

[United States] : The Fire This Time The Film, LLC, [2014]

Distributor

[New York] : New Day Films, [2014]

Copyright Date

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Physical Medium

color

Digital File Characteristics

video file

DVD video

all regions

System Details

DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital 2.0.

Performer

Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, Terrain Dandridge, Venice Brown, Kimma Walker.

Credits

Director of photography, Daniel Patterson ; editor, Kristen Huntley, Sarah Devorkin ; original score, Mario Grigorov ; with music by Toshi Reagon.

Restricted Access

[On some copies]: "For library and classroom use only; not for broadcast, resale, public exhibition or special events; do not duplicate.

Language

In English; optional subtitles in Spanish, French, and Arabic; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

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Added Author

Dorosh-Walther, Blair, film director.

Chesler, Giovanna, film producer.

Chandra, Mridu, film producer.

Richen, Yoruba, film producer.

Hill, Renata, on-screen participant.

Johnson, Patreese, on-screen participant.

Dandridge, Terrain, on-screen participant.

Brown, Venice, on-screen participant.

Walker, Kimma, on-screen participant.

Patterson, Daniel, director of photography.

Huntley, Kristen, editor of moving image work.

Devorkin, Sarah, editor of moving image work.

Grigorov, Mario, composer.

Reagon, Toshi, composer.

Independent Television Service, production company.

Fire This Time The Film LLC, film distributor.

Fork Films, production company.

G6 Pictures (Firm), production company.

Promised Land Film (Firm), production company.

New Day Films, film distributor.

Branch Call Number

DVDR 2077 O

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