The trailer and poster for the upcoming Netflix documentary 13th, from acclaimed director Ava Duvernay, has just debuted. The film also features at next month’s BFI London Film festival.
The title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary and galvanizing documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States…” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison industry is laid out by DuVernay with bracing lucidity. With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men, DuVernay creates a work of grand historical synthesis.
13th debuts on all Netflix platforms from 7th October 2016.
Check out the poster above, and the new trailer below.
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