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  • Audio description in-person & online Audio Description
  • Open captions in-person Open Captions
  • Trigger warning: Discussion of murder, physical violence; Flashing lights - 49:31-50:09 Trigger Warning




A film still from 16 ½ shows half the face of a young Black girl. Her gaze is straight ahead with a gentle smile. A cloth is presumably draped over her head. There is a pink overlay over the entire still.

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Supreme Court plaintiff Kuntrell Jackson reflects on his adolescence before and after being sentenced to life without parole for a murder he didn’t commit when he was just 14 years old.

Thank you to our screening partners: Amistad Law Project

A pre- and post-grounding session will be offered for the this screening. The intention of this session is to support audience members as they engage sensitive and potentially triggering content, from a place of resource and agency.

 







Directors Spotlight



Harlan Banks

Director

Harlan Banks is a writer, director, and editor from Stanford, California. As a BFA student at New York University, he completed his first documentary feature film, 16 1⁄2. He’s interested in shining new lights on often-overshadowed perspectives through telling stories that subvert genre conventions and blur lines between documentary and narrative.





  • Year 2025
  • Runtime 63 minutes
  • Country United States
  • Language English
  • Director Harlan Banks
  • Producer Alexa Bell, Harlan Banks
  • Executive Producer Jennifer Eberhardt, Kuntrell Jackson, Rick Banks
  • Cast Kuntrell Jackson
  • Cinematographer Harlan Banks
  • Production Design Alexa Bell
  • Composer Nate Eberhardt
  • Sound Design Mike Bobino
  • Music Nate Eberhardt
  • Premiere World





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