Film

2nd Annual Heartburn Party: Pontypool Film Presentation

UPDATE ON POST-EARTHQUAKE HAITI with film and speaker from the Colorado Haiti Project.
When the devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the world responded with billions of dollars in donations. What happened to all that money? Filmmaker Michele Mitchell spent an extended period of time in Haiti and raises questions about aid in Haiti and the "aid industry" in general.

WYCLEF JEAN -- videotaped interview

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
Free and Open to the Public

Special Double Feature:

Alice's Ordinary People (2012)
A documentary about Alice Tregay – a woman who refused to stand still for injustice and brought others together to change what was. It’s Alice’s story of the ordinary people who effected extraordinary change and advanced the endless struggle for human rights and dignity. It’s an inspiration to current and future generations, as they take up the mantle and continue the fight. Unrated

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
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The Green Pastures (1936)
A classic African American folk drama, based on Marc Connelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway production in which several Old Testament stories are performed as they might be imagined by black Sunday-school child in the Depression-era South. It's an all-black vision of heaven as a perpetual fish-fry, full of black angels and cherubs eating catfish and smoking 10-cent "see-gars," where "De Lawd" presides over the tales of creation.

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
Free and Open to the Public

The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Based on the true story of the “Fighting 99th”, the first African American combat pilots in the United States Army Air Corps, that fought in World War II. Fighting prejudice from racist officers and government officials and held to a consistently higher level of performance than their white counterparts, these men prove themselves in training and in combat, many of them dying for their country in the process.
106 mins, Rated: PG-13

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
Free and Open to the Public

The First Grader (2011)
A heartwarming and inspiring true story of an 84-year-old Kenyan villager and ex-Mau Mau freedom fighter who fights for his right to go to school for the first time to get the education he could never afford. It is a triumphant testimony to the transforming force of education.
103 mins, Rated: PG

Series Dates:
November:
11/26 ~ The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
December:
12/3 ~ The Green Pastures (1936)
12/10 ~ Special Feature: Stay Tuned

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
Free and Open to the Public

Cabin in the Sky (1943)
An all-star screen adaptation of the successful Broadway play tells the story of the gambler Little Joe who is seriously wounded in a barroom fight. His pious wife, Petunia, prays for him to have a second chance so he can get into heaven. Joe survives, but God's General and Lucifer begin the battle for his soul.
98 mins, Not Rated

Series Dates:
November:
11/19 ~ The First Grader (2011)
11/26 ~ The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
December:

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
Free and Open to the Public

The Piano Lesson (1995)
August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a family caught between their heritage and a dream for the future. The Charles family clashes over the fate of a magnificent, carved piano that carries their family's story from their days as slaves. To resolve the conflict they must first deal with the past.
95 mins, Rated: PG

Series Dates:
November:
11/5 ~ Cabin in the Sky (1943)
11/19 ~ The First Grader (2011)
11/26 ~ The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)

Join us for a Special Halloween Film
Free and Open to the Public
Costumes are Encouraged
Candy will be Served!

The Haunted Mansion (2003)

Join us for our Annual Film Series
Seldom Screened Cinema: Scenes from the Diaspora
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Glory (1989)
An American drama war film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes and Morgan Freeman. The story is based on the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the first formal unit of the US Army to be made up entirely of African American men, as told from the point of view of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, its commanding officer during the American Civil War.
122 mins, Rated: R

Series Dates:
October: