Community Cinema offers monthly special sneak preview screenings of films scheduled for upcoming broadcast on the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens.
The screenings, which are offered free of charge, will take place at 11 am each second Saturday through at Tivoli Cinemas located in Westport Manor Square, 4050 Pennsylvania, Kansas City, Missouri, 64111.
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In the poorest neighborhoods of Calcutta, a lawyer turned social entrepreneur is empowering young children to take an active role in transforming their own lives. Through arts programs and hands-on activites like mapping their communities, these young girls and boys have brought clean drinking water to and improved sanitation in their slums.
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Faith, love, marriage, homosexuality and the Episcopal Church collide in the first openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. |
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Inspired by his best-selling Pulitzer Prize-winning book, author Nicholas Kristof and celebrity acitivists travel to nine countries. They witness courageous individuals who are confronting opression and creating solutions through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls. |
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As Goes Janesville records two years in the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders, and elected officials all trying to reinvent their lives and their Midwestern town amid the closure of their GM plant and America’s worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. |
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Rafea is a Bedouin woman living in Jordan who, with encouragement from the country’s Ministry of Environment, leaves her village for the first time to go to Barefoot College in India to train to become a solar-energy engineer. The Barefoot College provides training to the rural poor to empower them to make their communities sustainable. |
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Artist Wayne White found early success as one of the creators of Pee-wee’s Playhouse and now his “word” paintings, which feature pithy and often sarcastic text statements crafted onto vintage landscape paintings, have made him a darling of the fine art world. This is a funny, irreverent story of the the highs and lows of a commercial artist struggling to find peace and balance between his work and his art. |
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During the 1950s and 60s, civil rights leader Whitney Young navigated a divided society. He challenged America’s white business and political leaders directly, but his efforts to open the doors for equal opportunity were often attacked by Black Americans who felt his methods were in contrast with the Black Power Movement of the time. |
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Soul Food Junkies delves into the historical and controversial relationship between the African American community and soul food. How does our affinity for soul food and its dietary restrictions affect the health of the African American community? |
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WONDER WOMEN! traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman and looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society’s anxieties about women’s liberation. |
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After bringing democracy to his country, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, the lowest-lying country in the world, takes up the fight to keep his homeland from disappearing under the sea. |
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