Facing History and Ourselves is thrilled to partner with the Boulder International Film Festival to present two documentary films about activism and social justice. We are also excited to announce that our friends from the film I Learn America are heading back to Denver for another free community screening. Check out the details on these amazing events with our partner organizations below.
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In partnership with the Boulder International Film Festival:
Watchers of the Sky
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 15
First United Methodist Church
Watchers of the Sky is a powerful feature film that exposes the uncanny parallels of genocides across time and culture through the stories of five remarkable people who are trying to end the international community’s political paralysis and make “never again” a reality.
Q&A with filmmakers Amelie Green-Dove and Elizabeth Bohart
Presentation and discussion will follow in the Call 2 Action tent
To purchase tickets and to view a complete schedule of films, click here.
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Freedom Summer
2:45 p.m.
Sunday, February 16
Boulder Theater
Freedom Summer, a remarkable film by Stanley Nelson (director of Freedom Riders, winner of the People’s Choice Award at BIFF 2011) chronicles the incredible summer of 1964 when a thousand volunteers entered Mississippi to register black voters. What began as a peaceful get out the vote movement quickly became subject to harassment, intimidation, and violence as local law enforcement officials and members of the Ku Klux Klan resorted to arson and beatings – and the murder of three civil rights workers – to thwart the campaign.
Q & A with filmmaker Cyndee Readdean, in person.
To purchase tickets and to view a complete schedule of films, click here.
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In partnership with Welcoming Colorado, The Denver Foundation and iNation:
I Learn America: One High School, One School Year, Five New Americans
Thursday, February 20, 2014
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Denver South High School
I Learn America follows five immigrant teenagers over the course of one year at the International High School at Lafayette, a public high school in Brooklyn dedicated to newly arrived immigrants from all over the world. The students strive to master English, adapt to families they haven’t seen in years, confront universal trials of adolescence, and search for a future they can claim as their own.
FREE community film screening with director Jean-Michel Dissard and cast members. The event will also highlight short clips prepared by several of Denver South High School students sharing their personal journey.
Registration is not required; click here for more information.