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Community Cinema DC

Date: Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm

Location: Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th ST, NW

AS GOES JANESVILLE catapults viewers to the front lines of America's debate over the future of its middle class – a debate that has become a pitched battle over unions in the normally tranquil state of Wisconsin. First, General Motors shuts down Janesville's century-old plnt, causing mass layoffs and residents exiled in search of work. Then newly elected governor Scott Walker ignites a firestorm by introducing a bill to end collective bargaining, unleashing a fury of protest and sparking a recall election. Spend three years in the lives of laid-off workers trying to reinvent themselves; business leaders aligned with the governor to promote a pro-business agenda that they believe will woo new companies to town; and a state senator caught in the middle, trying to bring peace to his warring state and protect workers' rights. As goes Janesville, so goes America, a polarized nation losing its grasp on the American Dream.  Learn more about Community Cinema here!

Addional WASHINGTON DC Screening;

OCTOBER 28 @ 5PM; BUSBOYS and POETS, 2021 14th ST, NW

Human Rights Film Series

Date: Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University

"GRANITO is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.  Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in GRANITO are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya people." (Film Website)

Human Rights Film Series

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

The film's website describes the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" In Uganda, which ”proposes death for HIV-positive gay men, and prison for anyone who fails to turn in a known homosexual. Inspired by American evangelicals who have christened Uganda 'ground zero' in the war on the “homosexual agenda”, The Bill awaits debate in Uganda’s Parliament." This film intimately steps into the lives of gay Ugandans, some of whom have chosen to come out to their friends and family, and the struggles they face on a daily basis trying to overturn the court's rulings while educating their communities that being gay is not a crime and certainly not a grave sin as many Ugandans would suggest. 

Human Rights Film Series

Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20016

When the people took to the streets of downtown Cairo in 2011, Omar and Karim saw a story unfolding before their eyes.  Accomplished filmmakers, they picked up their cameras and recorded the events of the Egyptian Revolution as they happened.  The narration of the film blends their own voices and conversations with audio from the streets in a film that tells the story of onlya few weeks and asks questions that will be considered for decades.

From the film's website, "this film is the first film that considers the 25^th of January revolution an incomplete revolution, which has been proven by the latest events in Egypt.  The film’s name was decided on from the first days of its shooting, where Omar and Karim considered that the title reflects on what happened to the ongoing Egyptian revolution."

Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2012 (All day) - Thursday, June 21, 2012 (All day)

The Center for Social Media will be at Silverdocs next week - will you? Check out the schedule below to see where Director Pat Aufderheide & Associate Director Angelica Das will be presenting. To learn more about the Conference schedule, visit http://silverdocs.com/conference/about-conference/ .