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  Janet & David Peoples

  Introduction

  David and Janet Peoples have written screenplays together or separately for The Day After Trinity, Who Are the DeBolts, Blade Runner, Hero, Twelve Monkeys, and Unforgiven, among others.

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  Justin Desmangles

  Introduction

  Poet and radio producer Justin Desmangles is collaborating on an opera on poet Bob Kaufman’s life; he contributed an essay to Black Hollywood Unchained (2015), edited by Ishmael Reed. 

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  Aya de Leon

  Introduction

  WE REGRET THAT AYA DE LEON IS UNABLE TO INTRODUCE TONIGHT'S SCREENING.Director of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People, Leon teaches poetry, spoken word, and hip hop at UC Berkeley; she is the author o