The Daily Bulletin

From the Diversity Program Coordinator
Please join the Equity and Campus Diversity Office for a screening of 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, a 2015 award-winning documentary, on Thursday, February 18, at 7:00 p.m. in the Burchfield Penney Art Center's Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Auditorium. The film is free and open to the public and will be followed by a panel discussion.

In 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets, lives intersect and are forever altered. On Black Friday 2012, two cars parked next to each other at a Florida gas station. A white middle-aged man and a black teenager argued over the volume of the music in the boy’s car. After an exchange of angry words, the man, Michael Dunn, fired 10 bullets at the car full of teens and then fled. Three of those bullets hit 17-year-old Jordan Davis, who died at the scene. Arrested the next day, Dunn claimed he shot in self-defense. Thus began the long journey of unraveling the truth. 3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets follows that journey, reconstructing the night of the murder and revealing how hidden racial prejudice can result in tragedy.

Directed by Marc Silver, the film won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Social Impact at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.

For more information about the Beyond Boundaries: Dare to Be Diverse Film and Discussion Series, please visit the Equity and Campus Diversity website. This event is sponsored in collaboration with the Buffalo State Communication Department and the Burchfield Penney Art Center.