'Freeway: Crack in the System' Joins the 50th Anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma, Alabama

ATLANTA - March 4, 2015 - PRLog -- The 9th Annual Jubilee Film Festival and World Bookings Talent Agency invite the public out to the screening of Freeway Rick Ross' documentary,  "Freeway: Crack in the System"  by award winning filmmaker Marc Levin on Sunday, March 8, 2015, @ 5 pm est. at the Performing Arts Center, 1000 Selma Avenue, Selma, Alabama.   A Q&A with Freeway Rick Ross will follow immediately after the screening.  The Jubilee Film Festival is held in conjunction with the 50th Anniversary Bridge Crossing Jubilee.

This festival is highly anticipated and the venues are standing room only every year. The 5-day event is attended by over 400,000 people. "Freeway: Crack in the System" is the only film presented on March 8 and will be the film that closes out this prestigious, monumental, and historical event!  For additional information, visit http://www.jubileefilmfestival.com.


The Jubilee Film Festival showcases films and provides a venue for films addressing current social problems.  The festival is part of the 50th Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which is a 5-day event that commemorates the historical struggle for the right to vote and is recognized around the world because of  BLOODY SUNDAY.  Pilgrims from around the world visit Selma, AL, to pay homage to the men and woman who suffered for the freedom of all American people. The feature film  SELMA, starring Oprah Winfrey is out now and has was nominated for an Oscar for BEST PICTURE. The film festival is being held at the Performing Arts Center and Selma University, which are located two blocks from the Bridge.

FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM tells the story of Ross' life, broken dreams, drug dealers, dirty cops, and government complicity – more compelling than fiction; it's the real story behind America's drug war. This documentary by award-winning filmmaker Marc Levin (SLAM, Mr. Untouchable, and Brick City) exposes how the infiltration of crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, fall, and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross – a street hustler who became the King of Crack – and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA's complicity in the drug war, and whose story is currently explored in the Focus Features film, Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner. Featuring exclusive interviews with Freeway Rick Ross (not to be confused with the rapper who took his name); Webb's source Coral Baca, and wife Susan Webb; former Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff Roberto Juarez; drug trafficker Julio Zavala and many more. Featuring the original title track “Crack in the System” by Snoop Dogg and Too $hort.

About Freeway Rick Ross
Once considered one of the country's top drug kingpins, Ricky Donnell Ross, better known as "Freeway" Rick Ross, has transformed his life and launched the Freeway Literacy Foundation (www.freewayliteracy.org).  Now, instead of building a massive multimillion dollar drug empire, that once earned him $3 million-dollars-per-day, this drug kingpin-turned-philanthropist has turned his life completely around, and he is busy spreading messages of literacy, anti-drug and anti-violence across the United States.


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