AMERICAN HATE – SURVIVORS SPEAK is a feature-length documentary that confronts the rise of violent hate crimes in the United States through the voices of survivors and their families.

This screening event is a fundraiser for the 5/14 Memorial Foundation and will include a panel discussion/Q&A with: Emmy award winning filmmaker Harry Gantz, Attorneys John Elmore and Kristin Elmore Garcia, Thomas Beauford CEO of The Buffalo Urban League, and Buffalo Councilwoman Zeneta Everheart, whose son was wounded in the Tops Market incident.

7:30pm Friday, October 2nd
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These first-person accounts allow viewers to see, hear, and feel what it means to be targeted because of who you are or what you believe. The film moves from the scene of each crime to its long-term consequences: the grief, the haunting memories, and the permanent rupture in everyday life. Yet despite the devastation, survivors and their communities have discovered a renewed sense of purpose to advocate, organize, and seek justice. Featured in the film are attorneys John Elmore and his daughter Kristen Elmore-Garcia, who are suing U.S. social media companies on behalf of several Black families who lost loved ones in the Tops Friendly Markets massacre in Buffalo, New York. John Elmore’s advocacy is deeply personal: as a teenager, he survived a mass shooting in 1974, when his father was critically wounded in what is often cited as America’s first modern school shooting. Fifty years later, his daughter and him represent their community in a David-and-Goliath legal battle against some of the most powerful corporations in America. AMERICAN HATE – SURVIVORS SPEAK centers the voices of survivors, their families, and communities. The film reveals how they are fighting back, through advocacy, organizing, litigation, faith, and political action.