Second Wednesdays - Community Cinema
The Community Cinema series showcases abridged, preview versions of documentaries that have been selected for their ability to facilitate dialogue and inspire engagement. Each preview will be screened on the second Wednesday of the month, and accompanied by a panel discussion.
October 10, 2012 - AS GOES JANESVILLE by Brad Lichtenstein
As Goes Janesville records two years in the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders, and elected officials trying to reinvent their lives and their Midwestern town amid the closure of their GM plant and America's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
November 11, 2012 - SOLAR MAMAS by Jehan Noujaim
Rafea, who lives in a small Jordanian village, is 30 years old with four children and a husband eager to take a third wife. With encouragement from her country's Ministry of Environment, she attends the Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer. The Barefoot College provides training to the rural poor to empower them to make their communities sustainable. Students include rural women from Kenya, Burkina Faso, Columbia and Guatemala.
December 12, 2012 - BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING by Neil Berkeley
Artist Wayne White found early success as one of the creators of Pee'wee's Playhouse and now his "word" paintings, which feature pithy and often sarcastic text statements crafted onto vintage landscape paintings, have made him a darling of the fine art world. This is a funny, irreverent story of the highs and lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art.
January 9, 2013 - THE POWERBROKER by Bonnie Boswell
During the 1950s and 60s, civil rights leader Whitney Young navigated a divided society. He challenged America's white business and political leaders directly, but his efforts to open the doors for equal opportunity were often attacked by Black Americans who felt his methods were in contrast with the Black Power Movement of the time.
February 13, 2013 - SOUL FOOD JUNKIES by Byron Hurt
Soul Food Junkies delves into the historical and controversial relationship between the African American community and soul food. How does our affinity for soul food and its dietary traditions affect the health of the African American community?
March 13, 2013 - WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES
From the birth of the comic book super heroine in the 1940s, to the blockbusters of today, WONDER WOMEN! Looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.
April 10, 2013 - THE ISLAND PRESIDENT
After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea.
May 8, 2013 - THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS
In the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta, a lawyer turned social entrepreneur is empowering young girls and boys to take an active role in transforming their own lives. Through arts programs and hands-on activities like mapping their communities, these youth have brought clean drinking water to and improved sanitation in their slums.
June 12, 2013 - LOVE FREE OR DIE
Faith, love, marriage, homosexuality, and the Episcopal church collide in the first openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire.
