Dare Not Walk Alone featured at the Tallahassee Film Festival 2012 Tribute to African-American Films

We're proud to see Dare Not Walk Alone featured at the Tallahassee Film Festival 2012 Tribute to African-American Films.

If you can't make the screenings, you can always rent or buy online from amazon instant video.

With many thanks from the film's producers...Jeremy Dean, Stephen Cobb, and Richard Mergener

Dare Not Walk Alone Available as Internet Video on Demand

With Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaching we wanted to let you know there are several ways to watch Dare Not Walk Alone, a documentary which portrays the genius of the philosophy of non-violence that Dr. King preached.

This movie is not your typical salute to Dr. King. This is a gritty portrait of the beatings and abuse that his supporters endured, without fighting back, in order to force the passage of the first civil rights act.

Furthermore, this documentary places in context a series of events in Florida that were wiped from the historical record for many years until director Jeremy Dean researched the newsreel archives and oral history of 1964 in St. Johns County, uncovering injustices that linger to this day.

In addition to purchasing the DVD from Amazon.com or Walmart.com, you can also, if you have a broadband Internet connect, rent the movie over the web from Amazon.com.

A further option is to buy a digital version from Amazon.

Rent Civil Rights Doc "Dare Not Walk Alone" at BestBuy's CinemaNow

The ways of watching a movie they are a'changing, and we can now offer one more way to watch Dare Not Walk Alone: the CinemaNow digital rental service from BestBuy. Click here to check it out.

Digital rental of the film will cost you $3.99. You can also buy it digitally for $9.95. Be sure to check out the compatibility of your hardware before downloading. (BTW, if you do watch the movie using this service we'd love to hear about your experience.)

Enjoy the movie!

No Twilight for Award-Winning Indie Doc: Wal-Mart has "Dare Not Walk Alone" on Sale

For those who thought twilight might fall on this project we have news: Dare Not Walk Alone is very much alive, and available again from the world's largest retailer. This is a great opportunity to spread the word about the film and expand informed dialog about race in America. Here's a link to order at Walmart.com.

We see the fact that Wal-Mart is helping this effort as a very hopeful sign. Maybe if lots of people buy the film from WalMart it will help pave the way for more independent films.

Depending on where you live there may be free shipping or free in-store pickup (at your nearest Walmart). As you can see the price is VERY affordable. At this rate we will have to sell tens of thousands of copies to pull the project out of the red, but let's be real here, you don't get involved with a project like this unless you are a serious optimist.

And stranger things have happened. Think of the millions of young people who have bought, or talked their parents into buying Twilight on DVD for twice the price of Dare Not Walk Alone. Surely some percentage of those New Moon werewolf/vampire fans also want to uncover the truth about how bravely youths of a different generation fought, in the real world, risking real beatings and worse to win equal rights for all?
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Screening Schedule for September: 9 City Tour

We're playing in 9 locations across the South this month!

• September 10, 2009 Baton Rouge, LA
• September 11, 2009 Ocean Springs, MS
• September 12, 2009 Clarksville, TN
• September 14, 2009 Greenville, SC
• September 15, 2009 Auburn, AL
• September 17, 2009 Orangeburg, SC
• September 19, 2009 Jacksonville, FL
• September 20, 2009 Stuart, FL
• September 21, 2009 Augusta, FL

For screening times and locations click here. If you live in or near any of these locations, we'd love to see you at a screening. Director Jeremy Dean should be accompanying the film for Q&A sessions.

How is this happening? We are part of the Southern Circuit, something that is supported by the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. We are honored to be part of this. Southern Circuit is the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers.

We're Back: Blog posts and tweets will resume shortly, screenings too

Even the most tireless of activists get tired sometimes and Dare Not Walk Alone is no exception. We had to take a couple months off, to regroup, recharge our batteries, and map out the future of the project (not to mention keeping up with days jobs to pay the rent, which an indie film seldom does).

Admittedly, we feel a bit wimpish for taking a break, particularly when we think of the tireless efforts of civil rights campaigners in the early sixties, like the young woman pictured here in St. Augustine, Florida, in 1964. (She is one of the St. Johns County foot soldiers who bravely faced down violent opposition and helped pass the first civil rights act 45 years ago last month, as documented in the film.)

But we also had to ask ourselves some serious questions. Like: Is there still a role for an NAACP award nominated indie film about race in America? Will screening the film help move us forward, closer to the more perfect union of which President Obama speaks and the beloved community of which Dr. King spoke so eloquently?

We think the answers are Yes and Yes. We sat out the Prof. Gates arrest thing but say what you will about the incident and its aftermath, surely it proved we are not yet in a post-racial state of communal harmony.

Now we are set to tour the film in a number of Southern states next month. We will be posting details here shortly. Director Jeremy Dean will be on tour with the film.

I Grew Up in Mexico and the Amazon Jungle: Not your typical filmmaker

Kenneth Cole's Awearness blog features a cool new interview with Jeremy Dean, director of Dare Not Walk Alone. It contains the kind of sentence you just don't see very often in filmmaker interviews: 

I was born in Lubbock, Texas, and grew up a missionary kid in Mexico and the Amazon jungle of Peru where I fished for piranha and was forced to eat monkey on several occasions.

It's all true and it explains a lot, like why Jeremy was such a resourceful twenty-something, able to make a movie about race in America when just about nobody was willing to put up any money.

Good answers like that come from good questions and we want to thank David Alm for doing the interview and reviewing the film. You can read it here.

Brooklyn Artist Jeremy Dean at BAM: Screening his film Dare Not Walk Alone

Brooklyn artist Jeremy Dean will conduct a special Q&A session after the 6:50PM screening of his award-winning film Dare Not Walk Alone at BAM on Thursday, May 28.

Nominated earlier this year for an NAACP Image Award, Dare Not Walk Alone has been described as "a powerhouse of a picture, minutely attuned to disparities of class and race...a triumph of outrage and empathy." Los Angeles City Beat called it "Mesmerizing and heart-rending." And Variety said:

"Dean's ability to explore history through such a local nexus creates a uniquely intimate document."

BAM is screening the film at 4:30PM, 6:50PM, and 9:30PM. Click here for tickets and details.
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Free Screening of Dare Not Walk Alone in Corvallis, Oregon

There's a great opportunity for everyone in Corvallis to see the NAACP Image Award nominated documentary Dare Not Walk Alone this coming Tuesday. The film will be shown at 6:30 pm on May 19 at:

LaSells Stewart Center
875 SW 26th Street
Corvallis, Oregon

The event is free and open to the public. Please encourage high school and OSU students to attend. Heck, please encourage everyone to attend. You won't regret it. And thanks to the City's Commission for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., OSU Office of Community & Diversity, and OSU Black Cultural Center for making this happen!

City of Corvallis Oregon Syndication

Dare Not Walk Alone is Taking a Break

DNWA is going offline for a while, no blog posts, no tweets.
However, we should be back in mid-May. See you then.
In the meantime, please check out our YouTube clips.