Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/26/2019
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
City Of Asylum/Pittsburgh
Categories
This powerful and disturbing 2018 documentary film follows the aftermath of the murder of a transgender woman in the Philippines by an American Marine.
When 26-year old Jennifer Laude (1988-2014) is found dead with her head plunged into a motel room toilet, the perpetrator is quickly identified as 19-year-old U.S. marine Joseph Scott Pemberton. A military recruit in an unfamiliar land, Pemberton was on “liberty leave” when he solicited Jennifer at a disco. On discovering that Jennifer was transgender, he brutally murdered her, leaving her to be found by her friend and the motel receptionist.
Three women intimately invested in the case — an activist attorney, a transgender journalist and Jennifer’s mother — galvanize a political uprising, pursuing justice and taking on hardened histories of US imperialism.
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United States