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COMMUNITY CINEMA | third fridays | september thru may | 7 PM | FREE henry st. john building | suite 106 | 301 south geneva street | ithaca new york
COMMUNITY CINEMA creates accessible opportunities for civic engagement and public education around important social issues with the help of the Independent Television Service (ITVS), community partners, and independent filmmakers like YOU!
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| September 2007 PLEASE VOTE FOR ME: In an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China, three eight-year-old students campaign for the coveted position of class monitor. This is the first election for a class leader to be held in China. The three candidates hold debates, campaign tirelessly and show their intellectual and artistic skills, until one is voted the winner. |
October 2007 MISS NAVAJO: For more than 50 years, the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant has given its contestants opportunities to showcase not only their beauty but their knowledge of Navajo culture, language and tradition. Following contestants in their quest for the crown, and featuring personal stories of recent winners, MISS NAVAJO is a celebration of womanhood. |
November 2007 AN UNREASONABLE MAN: For over 40 years Ralph Nader has worked tirelessly as a consumer advocate, building a legislative record the rival of any contemporary president. Yet today, many consider him merely an egomaniac and a "spoiler." AN UNREASONABLE MAN takes an unsparing look at one of the most important and controversial political figures of our time. |
December 2007 MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH: Terra Incognita: Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM CELL RESEARCH brings the stem cell debate to the forefront and examines the constantly evolving interplay between the promise of new discoveries, the controversy of modern science and the courage of people living with devastating disease and injury. |
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| January 2008 BANISHED: From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities, forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. A century later, these towns remain all white. BANISHED tells the story of three of these counties and their black descendants, who return to learn shocking histories. |
February 2008 IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA: An intimate documentary that goes behind-the-scenes with Africa's first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia. The film explores the challenges facing President Sirleaf and the extraordinary women surrounding her as they develop and implement policy to rebuild their ravaged country and prevent a descent back into civil war. |
March 2008 KING CORN: Two recent college graduates embark on a mission to see where America's food comes from by growing it. In the rural town of Greene, Iowa, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis plant a single acre of the nation's most powerful crop and then set out to follow it to America's tables. But when they learn what their harvest is destined to become, Ian and Curt realize their experiment has gotten out of hand. |
April 2008 A DREAM IN DOUBT: America's first post-9/11 hate crime murder punctuated a growing wave of violence in retaliation for the terror attacks. Told through the eyes of the victim's brother, A DREAM IN DOUBT travels to Phoenix to tell a personal story of national tragedy, murder, community and the American Dream. |
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