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Date: Friday, October 9, 2015
Time: 8PM
Location: Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center, Emerson College
Details: 2015, USA, 87 min
Director: Abigail Disney
Special co-presentation with the GlobeDocs Film Festival
Season passes do not apply to this co-presentation. Ticket required for admission!
Official Selection of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and 2015 AFI DOCS.
Director Abigail Disney will attend in person for Q&A.
Synopsis: THE ARMOR OF LIGHT follows an Evangelical minister and the mother of a teenage shooting victim who ask, is it possible to be both pro-gun and pro-life?
What price conscience? Abigail Disney’s directorial debut, THE ARMOR OF LIGHT, follows the journey of an Evangelical minister trying to find the courage to preach about the growing toll of gun violence in America. The film tracks Reverend Rob Schenck, anti-abortion activist and fixture on the political far right, who breaks with orthodoxy by questioning whether being pro-gun is consistent with being pro-life. Reverend Schenck is shocked and perplexed by the reactions of his long-time friends and colleagues who warn him away from this complex, politically explosive issue.
Along the way, Rev. Schenck meets Lucy McBath, the mother of Jordan Davis, an unarmed teenager who was murdered in Florida and whose story has cast a spotlight on “Stand Your Ground” laws. McBath, also a Christian, decides to work with Schenck even though she is pro-choice. Lucy is on a difficult journey of her own, trying to make sense of her devastating loss while using her grief to effect some kind of viable and effective political action—where so many before her have failed.
ARMOR follows these unlikely allies through their trials of conscience, heartbreak and rejection, as they bravely attempt to make others consider America’s gun culture through a moral lens. The film is also a courageous look at our fractured political culture, and an assertion that it is, indeed, possible for people to come together across deep party lines to find common ground.
“A thoughtful and moving portrait of a man who has risked his status and career to publicly fight for his convictions.” – The Hollywood Reporter
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