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Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary
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Screening October 1 - November 5, 2017 | Set against the social, political and cultural landscape of the times, Chasing Trane brings saxophone great John Coltrane to life, as a man and an artist.
Read MoreI Am Not Your Negro
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Screening November 1, 2017 - January 14, 2018 | One of the most acclaimed films of the year and an Oscar nominee for Best Documentary, I Am Not Your Negro envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.
Read MoreTell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
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Screening January 15 - February 18, 2018 | Tell Them We Are Rising explores the pivotal role historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played over the course of 150 years in American history, culture, and identity.
Read MoreLook & See: A Portrait Wendell Berry
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Screening March 26 - April 22, 2018 | Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky is a portrait of the changing landscapes and shifting values of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture, as seen through the mind’s eye of award-winning writer and farmer Wendell Berry, back home in his native Henry County, Kentucky.
Read MoreServed Like a Girl
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Screening May 1 - May 27, 2018 | Served Like a Girl provides a candid look at a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of homeless women veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and suffer from PTSD, sexual abuse, and other traumas.
Read MoreMeet the Patels
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Screening November 27 - December 25, 2016 | Ravi Patel is almost 30, an actor, and, worst of all to his traditional Hindu parents, still unmarried.
Read MoreThe Bad Kids
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Screening February 20 - March 19, 2017 | Located in an impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is an alternative for at-risk students with little hope of graduating from a traditional high school.
Read MoreNational Bird
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Screening April 1 - April 30, 2017 | National Bird follows whistleblowers who, despite possible consequences, are determined to break the silence around one of the most controversial issues of our time: the secret U.S. drone war.
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