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Community Cinema Series

The Dennos Museum Center announces the Community Cinema Series on first Thursdays September 2011 through May 2012.

Beginning in January 2012, these films will be shown captioned and there will be a sign language interpreter for the panel discussion.

September 1, 2011, 7:00 pm - Peace Unveiled

When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. Peace Unveiled follows three women in Afghanistan who are risking their lives to make sure that women have a seat at the negotiating table.

October 6, 2011, 7:00 pm - Deaf Jam

Aneta Brodski, a deaf teen living in New York City, discovers the power of American Sign Language poetry.  As she prepares to be one of the first deaf poets to compete in a youth slam, her journey leads to an unexpected collaboration. 

November 3, 2011, 7:00 pm - We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân

The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jane Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died. 

December 1, 2011, 7:00 pm - Lioness

How did five female Army support soldiers--mechanics, supply clerks and engineers--end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq War? Directors Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers give an intimate look at war through the eyes of the first women in U.S. history sent into direct ground combat, despite a policy that bans them from doing so. Through harrowing personal stories, these women candidly share their experiences in Iraq as well as from their lives back home to form a portrait of the emotional and psychological effects of war.

January 5, 2012, 7:00 pm - Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock

Daisy Bates was a complex, unconventional, and largely forgotten heroine of the civil rights movement who led the charge to desegregate the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

February 2, 2012, 7:00 pm - More than a Month

Filmmaker Shukree Hassan Tilghman sets off on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. His tongue-in-cheek journey explores the complexity and contradictions of relegating an entire group’s history to one month in a so-called “post-racial” America.

March 1, 2012, 7:00 pm – Revenge of the Electric Car

Filmmaker Chris Paine takes his film crew behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and the Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars. Without using a single drop of foreign oil, this new generation of car is America’s future: fast, furious, and cleaner than ever.

April 5, 2012, 7:00 pm - Hell and Back Again

U.S. Marine Sergeant Nathan Harris, 25, leads his unit to fight a ghostlike enemy in Afghanistan. Wounded in battle, Harris returns to North Carolina and his devoted wife to fight pain, addiction, and the terrifying normalcy of life at home. 

May 3, 2012, 7:00 pm - Strong!

Cheryl Haworth is a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. As the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter prepares for Beijing 2008, she struggles with injury, confidence, and her place in a world where larger women are not readily accepted.

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Community Cinema is a community outreach project of CMU Public Television and the Dennos Museum Center.  All films will be shown at 7:00 pm at the Dennos Museum Center free of charge.  These screening events are part of the ITVS (Independent Television Service) Community Cinema program. Free screenings of Independent Lens films will be held the first Thursday of the month beginning September 2011 through May 2012. For more on the Independent Cinema series, including upcoming dates and films, visit WCMU.org/TV.