New social justice film series!
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and the Bluegrass Film Society presents:
Autumn 2010 Social Justice Film Series
Bluegrass Community and Technical College (in UK's Football Stadium Parking lot)
470 Cooper Dr., Main Auditorium (Room 230) in the Oswald Building.
Thursday October 14th 7:30pm
Democracy’s Ghosts
From the cradle of the civil rights movement in Selma, Alabama, to the wind-blown plains of South Dakota's Native American reservations, to Florida's cumbersome rights restoration process, this 34-minute film from the ACLU and Off Ramp Films spends time with people who are living their lives as legal ghosts because of felony convictions.
Thursday November 11th 7:30pm
The Celluloid Closet
THE CELLULOID CLOSET explodes sexual myths and explores how our attitudes about homosexuality and sex roles have evolved through the century. With clips from over 100 Hollywood movies and interviews with many of the filmmakers and actors who created them (including Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, and Gore Vidal), THE CELLULOID CLOSET is an epic story -- by turns surprising, hilarious, and disturbing.
Thursday December 9th 7:30pm
What would Jesus Buy?
From producer Morgan Spurlock (SUPER SIZE ME) and director Rob VanAlkemade comes a serious docu-comedy about the commercialization of Christmas. Bill Talen (aka Reverend Billy) was a lost idealist who hitchhiked to New York City only to find that Times Square was becoming a mall. Spurred on by the loss of his neighborhood and inspired by the sidewalk preachers around him, Bill bought a collar to match his white caterer's jacket, bleached his hair and became the Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Since 1999, Reverend Billy has gone from being a lone preacher with a portable pulpit preaching on subways, to the leader of a congregation and a movement whose numbers are well into the thousands.
All films are free and open to the public
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