Filmmaker Jamie Kastner discusses “The Skyjacker’s Tale” along with New York civil rights attorney Margaret Ratner-Kunstler,who is featured in the documentary. The film gives unprecedented access to one of the top five most wanted U.
S. fugitives in Cuba -- Ishmael Muslim Ali, an American convicted of murdering eight people on a Rockefeller-owned golf course in the U.
S. Virgin Islands. Ali hijacked an American Airlines plane full of passengers to Cuba on New Years Eve 1984. After 30 years on the FBI’s most wanted list and against the backdrop of his looming extradition to serve eight consecutive life sentences in the US, or the film recounts the hijacking that got him here,re-examines his original trial and reveals a uncouth miscarriage of justice.
The film opens in New York on Friday, June 30th at the Village East Cinema (189 2nd Avenue) followed by a Question and respond period with Jamie Kastner and Margaret Ratner-Kunstler. Click here for more information.
Source: thetakeaway.org