Out in the Night
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2014
June 12 - 22, 2014
Q&A with filmmaker blair dorosh-walther and subjects Venice Brown, Terrain Dandridge, Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, and Karen Thompson.
Out in the Night follows a group of African-American lesbians charged with gang assault when a threat from an older man escalated into a fight on the streets of Greenwich Village in the summer of 2006.
Screening followed by discussion with filmmaker blair dorosh-walther and film subjects Venice Brown, Terrain Dandridge, Renata Hill, Patreese Johnson, and Karen Thompson.
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves and a fight begins that draws in strangers on the street. It ends quickly, and all involved walk away until the man realizes he has been stabbed. The women are charged with gang assault, a serious felony. The media labels them a “Gang of Killer Lesbians” and the man an “admirer.” Three of the friends plead guilty and are released but four continue to fight, claiming self-defense. Out in the Night uncovers how their lives leading up to that night compelled these young women to defend themselves. Through this act, and their audacity to claim innocence in the courtroom, these young women became known as The New Jersey 4.
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