Join us for a special event in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day

A screening of the Emmy-winning 2019 documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality is a documentary film that follows Bryan Stevenson and Equal Justice Initiative‘s struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.

This feature documentary focuses on Bryan Stevenson’s life and career—particularly his indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system for its role in codifying modern systemic racism—and tracks the intertwined histories of slavery, lynching, segregation, and mass incarceration. Highlighting watershed moments involving cases and clients, True Justice offers a rare glimpse into the human struggle that is required when the poor and people of color are wrongly condemned or unfairly sentenced, and explores the personal toll it takes. The burden of facing this system is explored in candid interviews with associates, close family members, and clients. The film won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and is the winner of the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications’ 26th Annual Vision Award and a Peabody Award.

The film also documents the monumental opening of EJI’s Legacy Museum and its National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which is dedicated to the more than 4,400 African American victims of lynching. These sites are part of EJI’s effort to engage the nation in a new era of truth and justice.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality reveals a history that can’t be forgotten in the pursuit of genuine justice.

Stay after the screening for a chat with one of the film’s Executive Producers, Trey Ellis, hosted by Harold Bailey, Jr. (Westport Playhouse Trustee and TEAM Westport Chair), followed by an audience Q&A.

This event is FREE to the public and part of the 20th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.

True Justice is a co-production of HBO and Kunhardt Films; produced and directed by Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt; executive produced by Trey Ellis and Peter Kunhardt.