Past Event Category: Social Cinema 2024
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Mar 13RichlandMarquee Cinema, Union South
Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with discussion to follow. Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. RICHLAND offers a …
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Mar 6Deep RisingMarquee Cinema, Union South
This event is presented in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with discussion to follow. Executive-produced and narrated by Jason Momoa, Deep Rising illuminates the vital relationship between the deep ocean and sustaining life on Earth. The documentary also follows mining startup The Metals Company, as it pursues …
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Feb 28The Body PoliticMarquee Cinema, Union South
Doors open at 6pm. The Body Politic is a harbinger of hope in a country plagued by gun violence. Our protagonist is Brandon Scott, a young Mayor who grew up during Baltimore’s most troubling years and sets out, with unyielding idealism, to change the course of his battered and beloved city. Scott is elected Mayor …
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Feb 21The 50Marquee Cinema, Union South
Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with discussion to follow. At a time when the California state prison system was dangerously overcrowded, and more than 85% of its inmates were involved in drug uses, one unlikely program looked inward for the answer and took a chance on 50 men serving life inside. Post-screening discussion …
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Feb 7The StrollMarquee Cinema, Union South
This event is presented in collaboration with the Gender & Sexuality Campus Center at UW-Madison. Film screening will begin at 6:30 PM with discussion to follow. When Director Kristen Lovell moved to New York City in the 1990s and began to transition, she was fired from her job. With so few options to earn money …