Hold Your Fire: A Call for Restorative Justice in the US

Documentary film ‘Hold Your Fire’ provides us with a riveting account of a hostage situation in Brooklyn in January 1973, when four young African American men were caught stealing guns in a sporting goods store and took a dozen hostages.  The police assumed that they were members of the Black Liberation Army and came down with all the force of the NYPD. The situation snowballed into an event full of miscommunications, misunderstandings and mistaken identity, and it soon became tragically violent. Emmy-nominated filmmaker Stephen Forbes, cinematographer and director of ‘Hold Your Fire,’ shares how he brought this incredible story to the big screen.  'Hold Your Fire' has its theatrical release in the US on May 20th and will be available on iTunes. “We’re taught a domination model in interaction. The best schools in America teach that you enter a conversation to win.” - Stefan Forbes