An additional 12 locations have joined the growing movement led by African-American business leaders to raise funds for students across the country to see the Academy Award-nominated film “Selma,” expanding the first-of-its-kind campaign to 25 locations nationwide.
Due to the generous contributions by so many of the country’s most prominent African-American business leaders, more than 275,000 middle and high school students across the U.S. will experience the critically acclaimed film for free at participating theaters while supplies last.
The new locations joining the movement are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Central Florida/Orlando, Connecticut, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Montgomery, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and St. Louis.
Rev. Starsky Wilson, President & CEO of the Deaconess Foundation, in St. Louis
“It is important that students are aware of this moment in history and make connections between the struggles of earlier generations and the challenges facing today’s youth,” said Rev. Starsky. “We are...
Due to the generous contributions by so many of the country’s most prominent African-American business leaders, more than 275,000 middle and high school students across the U.S. will experience the critically acclaimed film for free at participating theaters while supplies last.
The new locations joining the movement are Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Central Florida/Orlando, Connecticut, Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Montgomery, Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and St. Louis.
Rev. Starsky Wilson, President & CEO of the Deaconess Foundation, in St. Louis
“It is important that students are aware of this moment in history and make connections between the struggles of earlier generations and the challenges facing today’s youth,” said Rev. Starsky. “We are...
- 1/16/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Last night was the kick-off with just one film, Silver Linings Playbook, but today the real meat of the fest is served with films screening all day and all evening. Sliff’s main venues are the the Hi-Pointe Theatre, Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium, Washington University’s Brown Hall Auditorium and the Wildey Theatre in Edwardsville, Il
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
The entire schedule for the 21st Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival be found Here.
http://cinemastlouis.org/sliff-2012
Here is what will be screening at The 21st Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival today, Friday, November 9th
Chained plays 7:00pm at the Tivoli Theatre with director Jennifer Lynch in attendance (read the Wamg interview with Ms Lynch Here
At the end of an afternoon excursion, Sarah Fiddler and her young son step into a taxi to head home. They never get there. The cab...
- 11/9/2012
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The city's financial problems are no secret. But the former Martha and the Vandellas singer thinks Detroit needs to look to the spirit of 60s music to revive itself
A glut of fatalist headlines and documentaries have recently given outsiders the impression that Detroit is a city with no money and even less hope. The statistics seem to give credence to this notion. Its unemployment rate, at around 30%, is higher than anywhere else in America, and crime, while on the decrease since 2000, still makes Detroit the sixth most violent city in the Us.
For Detroit's older residents, this just feels like history repeating itself. Many talk about the 1960s, the last time the city was struck by economic strife, as if it were only yesterday. But the doom and gloom of foreigners is dismissed by natives, who remind outsiders that it was hope, not help or hyperbole, that got the city out of its depression.
A glut of fatalist headlines and documentaries have recently given outsiders the impression that Detroit is a city with no money and even less hope. The statistics seem to give credence to this notion. Its unemployment rate, at around 30%, is higher than anywhere else in America, and crime, while on the decrease since 2000, still makes Detroit the sixth most violent city in the Us.
For Detroit's older residents, this just feels like history repeating itself. Many talk about the 1960s, the last time the city was struck by economic strife, as if it were only yesterday. But the doom and gloom of foreigners is dismissed by natives, who remind outsiders that it was hope, not help or hyperbole, that got the city out of its depression.
- 5/28/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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