2011 Newport Beach Film Festival – Special Screening

See “White Knight” at the 2011 Newport Beach Film Festival

Leroy Lowe, Grand Dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan, confronts everything he's been taught to hate when he's sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm. Warden Merville, who is dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio, a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cellmate. Leroy, confined in a small cell with the “enemy,” far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice. His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden take on a different meaning when Madalena, a beautiful Mexican maid, is hired to clean the warden's office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy's eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a path to redemption.

5:15 PM Fri, Apr 29

Ticket Info:
http://newportbeach.slated.com/2011/films/thewhiteknight_newportbeach2 011

Festival Info:
www.NewportBeachFilmFest.com