Community Cinema
Powerbroker Panel
On February 17, 2013, the Denver Film Center hosted a "standing-room-only" screening of The Powerbroker as part of our monthly Community Cinema program.
May
The Revolutionary Optimists
The Filmmakers:
Nicole Newnham - Co-Director
Maren Grainger-Monsen - Co-Director
Marco D'Ambrosio, Composer
Andrew Gersh, Editor
Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. The Revolutionary Optimists follows him as he attempts to replicate his work in the brick fields outside the city, where children live and work in unimaginable conditions.
Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children in Calcutta's slums have cut their neighborhoods' malaria and diarrhea rates in half, and turned former garbage dumps into playing fields. Now, pushing at the limits of optimism, Amlan is attempting to take his work into the brickfields outside Calcutta, where spend their days making and carrying bricks using methods unchanged by centuries.
The Revolutionary Optimists proposes a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, including preventable diseases and ineffectual governance. Ganguly's story suggests that education and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting entire societies out of hopelessness.
| ASPEN Pitkin County Library 120 North Mill Street Aspen, CO 81611 DURANGO - RSVP Durango Discovery Museum 1333 Camino Del Rio Durango, CO 81301 MONTROSE - RSVP Montrose District Library 320 S. 2nd St. Montrose, CO 81401 STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - RSVP Bud Werner Memorial Library 1289 Lincoln Ave. Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 |
COLORADO SPRINGS - RSVP Tim Gill Center for Public Media 315 East Costilla Street Colorado Springs, CO 80903 GRAND JUNCTION - RSVP Room 111, Academic Classroom Colorado Mesa University Grand Junction, CO 81501 PUEBLO - RSVP Rawlings Library, InfoZone 100 E. Abriendo Avenue Pueblo, CO 81004 TELLURIDE - RSVP Wilkinson Public Library 100 West Pacific Ave. Telluride, CO 81435 |
DENVER - RSVP Denver Film Society Center 2510 East Colfax Ave. Denver, CO 80206 MANCOS - RSVP Mancos Public Library 211 West First Street Mancos, CO 81328 RIFLE Colorado Mountain College 3695 Airport Rd Rifle, CO 81650  |
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"Half the Sky" Resources and Information
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