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A new season of Community Cinema in the Grand Valley starts back up in September.
Community Cinema is a free monthly film presentation of independent documentaries from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. It's part of a national community engagement program provided by Rocky Mountain PBS and Chevron in Colorado and Independent Television Service (ITVS) in support of groundbreaking, independent films. The ongoing effort is to bring communities together through film, education and community dialogue.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — In each of the nine Western Slope communities hosting Community Cinema, people come together to see the one-hour film and are invited to stay and join in a 20-minute community discussion with a panel of local experts. In the Grand Valley, Community Cinema is offered each month in Grand Junction, Fruita and Palisade. Learn about subjects that matter, and subjects that open your mind and touch your heart.
“The people who attend Community Cinema are as varied and interesting as the films shown. I've never attended one where I have not had an engaging conversation with someone I just met,” said Marcella Embry.
According to Barbara Johnson, “It's a great way to spend an evening! The choice of films is superb and you will leave feeling enlightened and more informed than when you arrived!”
Each monthly Community Cinema film is scheduled for broadcast on Rocky Mountain PBS, usually in the month following the screening.
Community Cinema begins in September with “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” an astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.
In October the film is “Deaf Jam,” a story about Aneta Brodski who is a deaf teenager living in New York City. As Aneta prepares to be among the first deaf competitors in a National Poetry Slam, she discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry to transcend and liberate.
November brings “We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean,” a story about how the Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. On Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, linguist Jane Little Doe is reviving the Wampanoag language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
The December film is “Troop 1500.” Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers, and drug dealers, but the Girl Scouts of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers, and marine biologists.
Following an academic schedule, Community Cinema runs from September through May. The Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens advertises itself as “a film festival in your living room.”
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Penny Mitchell is the regional director of Rocky Mountain PBS.
Community Cinema is a free monthly film presentation of independent documentaries from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. It's part of a national community engagement program provided by Rocky Mountain PBS and Chevron in Colorado and Independent Television Service (ITVS) in support of groundbreaking, independent films. The ongoing effort is to bring communities together through film, education and community dialogue.
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — In each of the nine Western Slope communities hosting Community Cinema, people come together to see the one-hour film and are invited to stay and join in a 20-minute community discussion with a panel of local experts. In the Grand Valley, Community Cinema is offered each month in Grand Junction, Fruita and Palisade. Learn about subjects that matter, and subjects that open your mind and touch your heart.
“The people who attend Community Cinema are as varied and interesting as the films shown. I've never attended one where I have not had an engaging conversation with someone I just met,” said Marcella Embry.
According to Barbara Johnson, “It's a great way to spend an evening! The choice of films is superb and you will leave feeling enlightened and more informed than when you arrived!”
Each monthly Community Cinema film is scheduled for broadcast on Rocky Mountain PBS, usually in the month following the screening.
Community Cinema begins in September with “Pray the Devil Back to Hell,” an astonishing story of the Liberian women who took on the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor in the midst of a brutal civil war, and won a once unimaginable peace for their shattered country in 2003.
In October the film is “Deaf Jam,” a story about Aneta Brodski who is a deaf teenager living in New York City. As Aneta prepares to be among the first deaf competitors in a National Poetry Slam, she discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry to transcend and liberate.
November brings “We Still Live Here - As Nutayunean,” a story about how the Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. On Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, linguist Jane Little Doe is reviving the Wampanoag language more than a century after the last native speaker died.
The December film is “Troop 1500.” Their mothers may be convicted thieves, murderers, and drug dealers, but the Girl Scouts of Troop 1500 want to be doctors, social workers, and marine biologists.
Following an academic schedule, Community Cinema runs from September through May. The Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens advertises itself as “a film festival in your living room.”
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Penny Mitchell is the regional director of Rocky Mountain PBS.
GO&DO
WHAT: Community Cinema - “Pray the Devil Back to Hell”
WHEN: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 WHERE: Recital Hall at Moss Performing Arts Center COST: Free |
COMMUNITY CINEMA SCHEDULE
Grand Junction Second Tuesday of the month
7 p.m. screening
6:30 p.m. wine and cheese reception
Recital Hall, Moss Performing Arts Center
at Colorado Mesa University
Free campus parking for all Community Cinema events.
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Fruita
Last Wednesday of the month,
6:30 p.m. screening
Dinosaur Journey Museum,
550 Jurassic Court
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Palisade
TBD
Palisade Branch Library
