Copwatch (film)

Copwatch is a 2017 documentary. It is about the Copwatch group of activists. It premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. It depicts the organization WeCopWatch, including segments on Ramsey Orta, Kevin Moore, who filmed the police abuse of Freddie Gray, and David Whitt who lived in the apartment complex where Michael Brown was killed, as well as Jacob Crawford, who seeded and co-founded Copwatch groups inspired by the Berkeley Copwatch group. Director Camilla Hall was on the front lines recording the WeCopWatch activists. She describes her film as "a plea for humanity. A plea to look out for each other; to look out for your neighbor. To not walk by when something terrible is happening to somebody else and taking that active decision to look out for one another,"[1]

The movie became available On Demand on October 6th 2017.[2]

The film is directed by Camilla Hall.[3]

Cast[4]

  • Jacob Crawford
  • Kevin Moore
  • Ramsey Orta
  • David Whitt

Reviews

Black Entertainment Television (BET) called the movie "Not only timely, but important." [2]

Variety magazine said "The documentary's handheld cinematography was ho-hum and its use of melodramatic music is graceless, “Copwatch” is finally undone by an inability to show that the work of WeCopwatch has reaped any rewards."[5]

The film currently has 56% on Rotten Tomatoes.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Meet The People Who've Made It Their Mission To Film Incidents Of Police Brutality". buzzfeed.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 "'Copwatch' Movie Review: 'Not Only Timely, But Important'". bet.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  3. ↑ Hipes, Patrick (12 June 2017). "Tribeca Documentary 'Copwatch' Acquired By Gunpowder & Sky". deadline.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Copwatch (2017), archived from the original on 2017-10-29, retrieved 2017-10-28
  5. ↑ Schager, Nick (23 April 2017). "Tribeca Review: 'Copwatch'". variety.com. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Copwatch". rottentomatoes.com. Archived from the original on 29 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
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