Documentary
Presenting provocative non-fiction films on a variety of topics ranging from the socially relevant to the fascinating and unique.
Into the Light: Meaningful Recovery from Psychosis
Run Time: 63 min.
INTO THE LIGHT is a documentary that discusses how to achieve meaningful recovery from serious mental illness and schizophrenia with education, medication and advocacy. Featuring over 25 interviews of patients, parents, leading medical professionals, healthcare professionals, and advocates from across the USA. A Q&A with the Executive Producers, Dr. Rob Laitman, MD and Dr. Ann Mandel Laitman, MD follows the film. Admission is free.
999: The Forgotten Girls
- Tue, Nov 12
Director: Beatriz Calleja, Heather Dune Macadam Run Time: 90 min. Release Year: 2024
999 reveals the hidden story about 999 unmarried, young Jewish women registered for government service in a supposed shoe factory and ended up in Auschwitz. Who were these young women? Why were they chosen? How did a handful survive over three years in the death camps? 94-year-old Edith Grosman—#1970—and a few other survivors reveal the truth of this almost completely ignored piece of women's history, the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz. Based on the international best seller 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (translated into 19 languages) this documentary pairs with the book to educate and inform a wider public about this historic #MeToo story. A Q&A with the filmmaker and author Heather Dune Macadam follows the film. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing.
Personal Statement with Rewarding Potential Scholarship
- Thu, Nov 21
Director: Edwin Martinez, Juliane Dressner Run Time: 87 min. Rating: Not Rated Release Year: 2018
Personal Statement is an Emmy-nominated feature-length documentary that follows Karoline, Christine, and Enoch through their senior year and into college. They work tirelessly as peer college counselors to realize better futures for themselves and their peers. They struggle and they stumble, but refuse to succumb to the barriers that prevent so many low-income students from attending and graduating from college.
My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock
- Tue, Feb 18
Director: Mark Cousins Run Time: 120 min. Release Year: 2023
Starring: Alfred Hitchcock, Alistair McGowan, Mark Cousins
A century after the debut of Alfred Hitchcock's first feature, he remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s world? Mark Cousins, the award-winning filmmaker behind Women Make Film, The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, and The Story of Film: A New Generation, tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career- his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works- in playful and revealing ways.