King in the Wilderness

Q&A filmmaker Peter Kunhardt & executive producer Trey Ellis with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman 

Join us as we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his death. Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt chronicles the last few years of Dr. King’s life and portrays a conflicted leader who, after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965, faced an onslaught of criticism from both sides of the political spectrum. Thanks to revelatory conversations with his inner circle of friends, King in the Wilderness unearths a stirring new perspective into Dr. King’s character, his radical doctrine of nonviolence, and his internal philosophical struggles prior to his assassination in 1968. The film had its world premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.