SummaryIn 2015, Sandra Bland, a politically active 28-year-old black woman from Chicago was arrested for a traffic violation in a small Texas town. Three days later, Sandra was found hanging from a noose in her jail cell. Though ruled a suicide, her death sparked allegations of racially-motivated police murder and Sandra became a poster child for activi... Read More
Directed By:Kate Davis, David Heilbroner
Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
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Nov 16, 2018
88
By far the best part of Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland is that we get to see her face and hear her words.
Nov 18, 2018
83
Chronicling Bland’s own Facebook activism along with an examination of the mysterious circumstances of her death, the film is part legal procedural, police mystery, and an exploration of the kind of racism that led to her arrest in the first place.
Nov 18, 2018
70
Say Her Name doesn’t have answers, but it does re-emphasize how unnecessarily tragic Bland’s death was, and why her name should be a boldfaced one in the nationwide call for police reform.
Nov 18, 2018
70
What the film does best is bear witness to what happened on the day of the arrest and place it in the context of Bland's political life.
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Release Date:Nov 9, 2018
Duration:1 h 45 m
Rating:TV-MA
Awards
Women Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Ridgefield Independent Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
