3:30-5:30PM

Location: The Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Film screening and Q&A (Philadelphia premiere)

In advance: $12 (First Person Arts members) / $15 (general public) – $15/$20 after 10/25

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The name William Kunstler is cloaked in controversy. Revered by activists for taking on the establishment (the Chicago Seven, Attica, the stand-off at Wounded Knee), he was later reviled for defending people accused of rape, murder, organized crime and terrorism. David Rudovsky, one of the nation’s leading civil rights and criminal defense attorneys, joins filmmaker Emily Kunstler to discuss her father’s complicated legacy and the legal ethics questions they explore in her provocative new film: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.

David Rudovsky is one of the nation’s leading civil rights and criminal defense attorneys and practices public interest law with the firm of Kairys, Rudovsky, Messing & Feinberg.

Emily Kunstler is an activist and a documentary filmmaker. She worked as a video producer for Democracy Now! and was an associate producer on Alison Maclean’s Persons of Interest. With her
sister Sarah, she co-founded Off Center Media, a documentary production company that exposes injustice in the criminal justice system.

Presented in collaboration with the Jewish Film Festival

Sponsored by the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University

This program has been approved for two hours of ethics credit for Pennsylvania lawyers.  Credits may be available in other jurisdictions as well.  Attorneys seeking CLE credit should bring a check in the amount of $25, payable to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, to the event.

photo credit: Associated Press