Second Annual Prisoners' Justice Film Festival

Toronto's Prisoner's Justice Action Committee invites your organization to partner with us - endorse or sponsor the second annual Prisoner Justice Film Festival, February 23-26th 2006!

About the Film Festival

The first Toronto Prisoner's Justice Film Festival was held in January of 2005 and drew hundreds of community members, abolitionists, youths, activists, students, educators, artists, ex-prisoners, family members and allies from across Ontario.

The 2005 Festival featured 5 multi-feature programmes focusing on a wide spectrum of issues including prison privatization, youth detention, First Nations Prisoners, immigration detention, prison & health, and resistance.

This year's Festival will build on the last one, and audiences will have the opportunity to join in discussions with guest film-makers and actors, attend activist panels including current and ex-prisoners, connect with community organizations at an info fair, and view exhibits of art by prisoners and families.

Get Involved Today!

Your organization can support the Prisoner's Justice Film Festival in many ways:

1. Add the name of your organization to our growing list of endorsers - organizations, clubs and agencies who support what we are doing. Each endorsing organization will be invited to set up an info table throughout the Festival.

2. Sponsor part of the festival by providing funding for film screening and transportation costs for guest speakers, or donate money towards festival operations. In-kind donations are also welcome: we will need refreshments for hungry film-goers, as well as other supplies. Sponsors will be formally recognized in all promotional materials.

3. Partner with us to help us make the festival as relevant and exciting as possible - contact us with film ideas, speaker suggestions, and ideas for special events.

4. Send a team of volunteers from your organization to help us ensure that the Festival runs smoothly.

5. Help spread the word - circulate to educate!

About the Prisoner's Justice Action Commitee

The Prison Justice Action Committee believes that prisons do not make our communities safer or more secure. We believe that the prison industrial complex perpetuates violence and oppression, including racism, classism, sexism, colonialism, and homophobia. PJAC works to end incarceration and detention and to create healthy communities built on social justice.

Please contact us with your endorsements, questions, comments or ideas.

Email: pjac_committee@yahoo.com

Visit our website: www.pjac.org

We sincerely hope that you will join us as we work to build a movement that challenges the prison-industrial complex, and demands justice, not jails.

Toronto Prisoner's Justice Action Committee