The Homestretch
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm In The Homestretch (directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly), three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a better future.
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm In The Homestretch (directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly), three homeless teenagers brave Chicago winters, the pressures of high school, and life alone on the streets to build a better future.
Wednesday, April 27, 7pm Touched by his football player son’s battle with a foodborne superbug, a reluctant dad documents his family’s unlikely journey into a world of Food Patriots (directed by Jeff Spitz).
Wednesday, May 4, 7pm Sex sells. What sells even more? Insecurity. The Illusionists (directed by Elena Rossini) examines the multi-billion dollar industries that saturate our lives with images of unattainable beauty, exporting body hatred from New York to Beirut to Tokyo.
Wednesday, February 15, 7pm Is sugar the new tobacco? Sugar Coated (directed by Michèle Hozer) takes an eye-opening look at the public relations campaigns that the multi-billion dollar food industry has waged to discredit and distract from mounting scientific evidence about the toxicity of sugar.
Wednesday, February 22, 7pm Starting on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, as the community grapples with the death of Michael Brown, Do Not Resist (directed by Craig Atkinson) offers a stunning look at the militarization of policing in America and a glimpse into the future.
Wednesday, March 1, 7pm The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost (directed by Andrew Morgan) pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?
Wednesday, March 8, 7pm As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In Seed: The Untold Story (directed by Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel), these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
Wednesday, March 15, 7pm The Occupation of the American Mind (directed by Jeremy Earp and Loretta Alper) explores how the Israeli and US governments and the pro-Israel lobby have joined forces to shape US media coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Monday, November 26, 6:30pm The Organizer (a film by Nick Taylor and Joey Carey) is a portrait of Wade Rathke, the controversial founder of ACORN, as well as an exploration of that much maligned and misunderstood occupation – community organizing.
Wednesday, March 21, 6:45pm All across America, thousands of rape kits sit in storage, untested, uninvestigated, and ignored, while rape victims are disregarded by the system that promises to bring them justice. I Am Evidence (directed by Geeta Gandbhir and Trish Adlesic) explores how and why this happened and how all of us can be agents for the changes that must be made.