"A Place For All People" Film Festival

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Repeats every week every Thursday.
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 5:30pm

A film festival of works directed by African-Americans in conjunction with "A Place For All People", the Smithsonian African-American History poster exhibit featured in the library during the month of May. Every Thursday at 5:30pm, a film will be shown in the Reception Hall of the Community Center. Call 541-942-3828 for more details. Films listed below:

 

May 4th, 2017: Moonlight (2016) (rated R)

 A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young, African-American, gay man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

May 11th, 2017: Do the Right Thing (1989) (rated R)

On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

May 18th, 2017: 13th (2016) (rated TV-MA)

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

May 25th, 2017: Selma (2014) (rated PG-13)

A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

June 1st, 2017: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) (NR)

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston.

 

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Moonlight
Do The Right Thing
13th
Selma
Their Eyes Were Watching God