Film Fridays-ish: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Oct
2
6:30 PM18:30

Film Fridays-ish: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on PBS | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War


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We’re adapting our Film Friday events to the virtual world! Watch a remarkable foray into unexplored history and then join us for a virtual Q&A with its creator Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and duPont juror Mark Whitaker to celebrate Gates’ 2020 duPont Award winner, Reconstruction: America After the Civil War. 

Access the four-part documentary series in advance, presented by esteemed filmmaker and scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., after you register for the event. Before you attend the Q & A, watch some or all of this epic immersion into the period of grief, uncertainty, and revolutionary social change that followed the American Civil War. 

Journalist and author Mark Whitaker joins Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. to discuss the behind-the-scenes of making Reconstruction and what this work means at such a crucial moment, as the nation reckons with its legacy of slavery in the wake of the deaths of Geroge Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Auhmed Aubrey, among others.  

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Film Fridays: This Is Home
Apr
5
6:30 PM18:30

Film Fridays: This Is Home

This Is Home is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. With only eight months of help from the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient, they must forge ahead to rebuild their lives in a new home: Baltimore, Maryland.  When the newly imposed travel ban adds further complications, their resilience is put to the test. Through humor and heartbreak, this universal story illuminates what it’s like to start over.

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Film Fridays: On Her Shoulders (a 2019 duPont-Columbia Award winner)
Mar
1
6:30 PM18:30

Film Fridays: On Her Shoulders (a 2019 duPont-Columbia Award winner)

With deep compassion and an elegant eye, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach is a fly on the wall in the fast-paced world of this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of her Yazidi people in Northern Iraq and escaped slavery at the hands of ISIS. Don’t miss this gorgeous, aching, inspiring film about the newest Nobel Peace Prize winner. Q & A afterwards with filmmaker Alexandria Bombach.

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