Deborah Riley Draper's OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE Premieres at the LA Film Festival Today

Deborah Riley Draper's much-anticipated documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice premieres today at the LA Film Festival at the Arclight Culver City at 1:10pm today.

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is a feature-length documentary set in the strained and turbulent atmosphere of a racially divided 1930s America, torn between boycotting Hitler’s Olympics or participating in the Third Reich’s grandest affair. The film follows the men and women before, during and after their heroic turn at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936. The world remembers one of them - Jesse Owens. This is the story of the other 17, whose presence on the world stage is a seminal precursor to the Civil Rights Movement and a major springboard for desegregation in American sports. Additionally, there will be another screening of the film on Monday, June 6 @ 4:05 PM.

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