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Community Cinema Series offers monthly special sneak preview screenings of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. All Community Cinema screenings feature panel discussions with leading community-based organizations, special guest speakers, information and resources, and other programming designed to help people learn about and get involved in some of today's key social issues.
The screenings, which are offered free of charge, will take place at the History Museum’s Lee Auditorium, located at Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue in Forest Park. The films themselves will be broadcast at later dates as part of Independent Lens on Channel 9.
Presented by KETC/Channel 9 and the Missouri Historical Society, in collaboration with Independent Lens, ITVS and FOCUS St. Louis |
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Upcoming
Films:
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A Dream in Doubt
KETC broadcast date: May 25, 11:00 p.m.
America's first post-9/11 hate crime murder
punctuated a growing wave of violence in retaliation
for the terror attacks. Told through the eyes of the
victim's brother, this film travels to Phoenix to tell
a personal story of national tragedy, murder, community
and the American Dream. |
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New Year Baby
Screening: Thursday, May 8, 7:00–9:00 p.m.
KETC broadcast
date: June 1, Midnight
Born in a Thai refugee camp on the Cambodian
New Year, filmmaker Socheata Poeuv grew up in the United
States never knowing that her family had survived the
Khmer Rouge genocide. She embarks on a journey to find
out why her family's history had been buried in secrecy
for so long. |
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Presented by KETC/Channel 9 and the Missouri Historical Society, in collaboration with Independent Lens, ITVS and FOCUS St. Louis. |
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