"Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue For Hope" - LAF Film Screening and Q & A with Director Mike Ramsdell

“To understand the best in us, we must first be willing to take a full look at the worst in us.” – Thomas Hardy

The film "The Anatomy of Hate; A Dialogue For Hope" reveals the shared narratives found in individual and collective ideologies of hate, and how we as a species can overcome them. For six years the filmmaker, Mike Ramsdell, worked with unprecedented access to some of the most venomous ideologies and violent conflicts of our time including the White Supremacist movement, anti-gay Christian Fundamentalism, Muslim Extremism, the Palestinian Intifada, Israeli Settlers and Soldiers, and US Forces in Iraq. By juxtaposing this verite footage with interviews from leading sociological, psychological, and neurological experts, and interspersing stories of redemption told by former “combatants”, the film weaves a tapestry that reveals both the emotional and biological mechanisms which make all of us susceptible to acts and ideologies of hate, and demonstrates how these very same traits make us equally capable of overcoming them...

Come to Kirby 104 to see this powerful film and meet the Director, Mike Ramsdell, who will be on hand to introduce the film and to engage in a post-film Q & A session.