Location
Free screening of the award winning documentary film Behind the Mask followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Shannon Keith.
Behind the mask explores the history of the animal liberation movement, from its inception to present day.
For more than thirty years the Animal Liberation Front organization has been freeing non-human animals around the world and destroying property that causes harm to those animals totaling up in the hundreds of millions of dollars of "damage." As the film explains, the ALF has been identified by the FBI as the number one domestic threat in the U.S. despite the fact that they are against harming any living creature human or nonhuman, and have not harmed anyone since becoming established in the mid-1970s
Director Shannon Keith goes Behind the Mask and captures the hearts and souls of women and men who unveil their individual struggles for Animal Liberation.
About the filmmaker, Shannon Keith:
Animal rights lawyer turned filmmaker Shannon Keith has been under surveillance by the FBI for a number of years now. The agency has a thick file on her, has gone through her trash, raided her San Fernando Valley house, put pen registers on her phones and even harangued her mother. All because of the company she keeps. Keith defends animal rights activists and is now also spreading her message via the controversial documentary Behind the Mask, a profile of Animal Liberation Front that took three years to make.
