Montclair Film Screening: A Place To Stand

On Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m., “A Place to Stand,” will be shown at the Montclair Claridge Cinema, 486 Bloomfield Ave.

According to a release, the film tells the story of how Jimmy Santiago Baca transformed himself in prison from a drug dealer to an award-winning poet, activist and educator.

More information about Baca and the film can be found here.

According to a release, the film’s producer and director, Daniel Glick, graduated from Bloomfield High School in 2001, and went to college at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. After graduation, he lived and worked for several years in northern New Jersey before moving to New Mexico in 2011 to produce “A Place to Stand.”

Following the Nov. 17 showing there will be a Q&A period, as well as a reading of Jimmy Baca poems.

Tickets can be reserved for the one-time showing online here.

Pictured above: Daniel Glick

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