Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Stages of broMANce Film Series - Friday, April 13th at 6:30pm

The UC Film Series: Stages of BroMANce Continues....
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Stages of broMANce Film Series

Who serves free S'MORES and PIZZA together? WE DO. Just like they did in the Old West. And you can get in on this sweet deal this Friday, April 13th in the MudBox.

Doors open at 6pm. Movie starts at 6:30pm.

Also sponsored by Bender Library, RHA, SOC, CAS, the Lit Dept., Z-Burger, and Armand's Pizza.
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Sponsor: University College
Contact: Fatima Kamara, ucfilmseries2012@gmail.com
Web: https://www.facebook.com/events/182971555153250/

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UC Film Series Presents: Duck Soup

UC Film Series Presents:
Duck Soup
Friday March 23, 2012
From 6pm - 8:30pm
Mudbox on the Lower Level of the Library

Sponsored by the Bender Library and University College

UC Film Series Presents: Evolution of Zombies Part III

UC Film Series Presents: Evolution of Zombies Part III

DAWN OF THE DEAD
Friday, March 2, 2012
From 6pm - 8:30pm
Mudbox on the Lower Level of the Library

Sponsored by Bender Library and University College

Visiting Filmmaker Series - Spring 2012: Heather Courtney - "Where Soldiers Come From" - Thursday, March 1, 2012 from 2:30 - 7pm

Heather Courtney - "Where Soldiers Come From"

Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 2:30 - 7:00pm

Join us for a Master Class with filmmaker Heather Courtney at 2:30 pm followed by a screening of the documentary "Where Soldiers Come From" and Q&A starting at 5:30 pm.

WHERE SOLDIERS COME FROM is an intimate look at the young men who fight our wars and the families and town they come from. Returning to her hometown, director Heather Courtney gains extraordinary access, following these young men as they grow and change from reckless teenagers, to soldiers looking for bombs in Afghanistan, to 23-year-old veterans facing the struggles of returning home. The documentary looks beyond the guns and policies of an ongoing war to examine the war’s effect on the future of these young men, their parents and loved ones, and the whole community when young people go off to fight.

Heather Courtney has directed and produced several documentary films including Letters from the Other Side and

Los Trabajadores. With her current film, Where Soldiers Come From, she was a Sundance Edit and Story Lab fellow, and a 2009 recipient of the United States Artists fellowship. Her films have been funded by a Fulbright Fellowship, ITVS, the Sundance Documentary Fund, the Paul Robeson Fund, and the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund. She was recently named one of Film Independent's Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch. Letters from the Other Side was the Closing Night film at the Slamdance Film Festival in January 2006, screened at numerous festivals around the world, and was broadcast on over 60 PBS stations. Los Trabajadores won the Audience Award at SXSW and the International Documentary Association David Wolper award, and was broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens. She was a co-director on Roger Weisberg's Critical Condition, which aired nationally on POV in Fall 2008, and is a member of the acclaimed film distribution cooperative New Day Films. Prior to receiving her MFA in Film Production, she spent eight years writing and photographing for the United Nations and several refugee and immigrant rights organizations, including in the Rwandan refugee camps after the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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SOC’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents: Documenting the Unseeable: Spielberg, Ground Zero, and Feeling the Rebuilding

Tuesday, February 28, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theater

Mark Breeze, the producer of the "Memorial and Museum" episodes of the recent landmark six-part Discovery Channel/ Spielberg documentary on the rebuilding of Ground Zero, discusses the challenges and process of making a documentary about the rebuilding of a site that everybody knows but nobody wants to talk about.
Sponsor: SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Contact: Chris Palmer, 202-885-3408 or palmer@american.edu

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SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents: Exploring the Potential Power of Film in Protecting America's National Parks

Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theater

Stephen Shackelton, a top executive and Chief Ranger with the National Park Service (NPS), shows stunning stills and clips of our iconic national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and describes how NPS uses the media to protect and conserve these national jewels
Sponsor: SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Contact: Chris Palmer, 202-885-3408 or palmer@american.edu

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UC Film Series Presents: Evolution of Zombies Part 2

UC Film Series Presents: Evolution of Zombies Part 2

Night of the Creeps
Friday, February 17, 2012
From 6:00 - 8:30pm
Mudbox on the Lower Level of the Library

Sponsored by Bender Library and University College

Visiting Filmmaker Series - Spring 2012: Gerry Wurzburg - "Wretches and Jabberers" - Thursday, February 16 from 2:30 - 7:00pm

Gerry Wurzburg - "Wretches and Jabberers"

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 2:30 - 7:00pm

Location: Wechsler Theater in the Mary Graydon Center of American University

Join us for a Master Class with filmmaker Gerry Wurzburg at 2:30 pm followed by a screening of the documentary "Wretches and Jabberers" and Q&A starting at 5:30 pm.

Gerry Wurzburg's documentary chronicles the world travels of disability rights advocates, Tracy Thresher and Larry Bissonnette, in a bold quest to change attitudes about the intelligence and abilities of
people with autism. Until the 1980s, most children and young adults with autism in the US were excluded from normal schooling. Some were placed in mental institutions. Like many children with autism, Tracy and Larry grew up unable to speak. They faced a future of social isolation in adult disability centers. When Tracy was 23 and Larry 34, their lives changed when they learned to communicate by typing. Larry notes, "nothing I did...convinced people I had an inner life until I started typing." In the film, Tracy and Larry take to the road to promote awareness of the hidden intelligence in those who face speech and communication challenges, connecting with others like them across the globe who struggle to find a means of expression.

Gerry Wurzburg is an Academy Award®-winning documentary producer and director whose work addresses disabilities, contemporary history, social justice, education and health. Major awards include an Academy Award® for the documentary Educating Peter, an Academy Award® nomination for Autism is a World, and the Cable ACE for Documentary Directing, among others. She is a recipient of three National Endowment for Arts grants, the Governor of Tokyo Prize and the Japan Prize. Her work is in the Broadcast Museum, the Lincoln Center Theater Library and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Library.

Excerpted from the Center for Social Media site.

SPC Film Series Presents Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 1

Tuesday, February 14, 11:00 p.m., Ward 1
Come see the latest installment of Stephanie Meyer's blockbuster series,Twilight. All are welcome for this free screening.
Sponsor: Student Programming Committee and SUB
Contact: sm2272a@student.american.edu

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SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents "Defending Eden": Indigenous People, Conservation, and Film

Tuesday, February 14, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theater
How storytelling over multiple media platforms might enable Ecuador's Waorani people to defend their biologically rich territory from the incursion of industry. Filmmakers Keith Heyward and Jennifer Berglund of Prehensile Productions will discuss their film and their experience as new environmental filmmakers trying to hang on to their values in a competitive industry.
Sponsor: SOC's Center for Environmental Filmmaking
Contact: Chris Palmer, 202-885-3408 or palmer@american.edu
See the Facebook event.

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UC Film Series Presents: The Evolution of Zombies Part 1

UC Film Series Presents: The Evolution of Zombies Part 1

Night of the Living Dead
Friday, February 3, 2012
From 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Mudbox on the Lower Level of the Library

Sponsored by Bender Library and University College

Human Rights Film Series Screening Thursday, October 20 at 5:30pm

Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness

Thursday, October 20, 2011
5:30-8:00 PM

In 2008, Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero was murdered in Patchogue, New York. Marcelo's death was the tragic culmination of a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the community. Light in the Darkness chronicles the journey of Marcelo's family and community members as they react to their loss, the crime and the root causes of violence. The latest in the Not in Our Town series, the film carries on the tradition of documenting how communities organize and act together to prevent and repair the problems of hate crime to create an environment of safety and respect.

Visit the film website
Resource Page (PDF)

This film will be shown at the American University Katzen Arts Center with discussion to follow in the Abramson Family Recital Hall. For directions and parking, click here. This film is free and open to the public. Come early as seating is limited.