8:00PM

COLLATERAL

Director: Michael Mann

Year: 2004

Country: USA

Language: English

Run Time: 2hr

Pre-screening conversation with director Michael Mann moderated by Ava DuVernay at 8:00 pm with screening to follow at 9:00 pm.

After a long day, LA taxi driver Max is about to clock out when sharp-suited Vincent offers him $600 to make five stops. Sounds good until Vincent turns out to be a merciless hitman and each one of those stops involves a hit. As the night goes on, Max starts to wonder if he'll live to see the sunrise, as the pair are hunted by the police and the FBI.

About the Filmmaker:

As a director, screenwriter, and producer, four-time Academy Award® nominee Michael Mann has established himself as one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers in American cinema.

After writing and directing the Emmy®-winning television movie The Jericho Mile (1979), Mann executive produced the television series “Miami Vice” (1984) and “Crime Story” (1986). In 1990, he won an Emmy® for the mini-series “Drug Wars: The Camarena Story,” which he co-wrote and executive produced, and in 1992 executive produced “Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel.”

Mann wrote and directed his feature-film debut Thief (1981), and followed writing and directing Manhunter (1986), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Heat (1995), The Insider (1999), Ali (2001), Miami Vice (2006), and Public Enemies (2009). He directed Collateral (2004) and Blackhat (2015). As a producer, Mann’s work includes Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004), Hancock (2008), Texas Killing Fields (2011), and the HBO series “Luck” (2011) and “Witness” (2012).

Mann has an eponymous line with William Morrow publishers – Michael Mann Books, which published Hunting LeRoux by New York Times best-selling author and investigative journalist Elaine Shannon.