The documentary Radical Love takes viewers inside the world of 1960s radicalism by focusing on the legal work of the husband-and-wife team Michael and Eleanora Kennedy. Specialising in high-profile civil rights cases, the duo defended the American Indian Movement, members of the Black Panther Party and the militant Left-wing group the Weather Underground, among many others. The film features interviews with many of the players in these intersecting social movements, including Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, Eleanora Kennedy and Michael Kennedy, who, filmed in the months before his death in 2016, remained convinced of the righteousness of the causes he spent a lifetime fighting for. With his stirring portrait of deep love and radical activism, the US filmmaker William Kirkley raises timeless questions of law, ethics and political change.
Director: William Kirkley
Producers: Christopher Collins, Lydia Tenaglia, Chris Cechin-De La Rosa, Caroline Waterlow
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