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D Tour Draws Donors and Awareness of Organ Donation

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(left) D TOUR director Jim Granato and (right) June R. Wallace, Community Affairs Coordinator, California Transplant Donor Network at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center

Throughout the month of September, Community Cinema presented free preview screenings of the documentary D Tour. Each of the 36 events between September 1 and September 29 connected audience members with information about local organ donation registries and shared the stories of transplant recipients and the donors who saved their lives. The emotionally moving film follows indie rock drummer Pat Spurgeon on a “dialysis tour” as he waits for a kidney transplant match and tours with his band, Rogue Wave.

 

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Resisting the Rambo Culture with Women, War & Peace

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Abigail Disney, producer and moderator Ruth Ezell

Pray the Devil Back to Hell  was a special night for St. Louis Community Cinema as producer, Abigail Disney, was present at the screening. She engaged the audience in a truly wonderful conversation about her thought provoking film.  Most of the 300 people who attended the film remained for the discussion. Much of the discussion revolved around the fact that we did not know about the women’s movement in Liberia. The press did not cover it and we were kept in the dark about these courageous women.  Abigail commented that was one of the reasons she wanted to make this film, which can help change ideas about women’s roles in war, the peace process, and the military.

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Huge Turnout for Between the Folds in St. Louis

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Children admiring Sugi Taylor's work

Producing Partners are local community organizations that co-present Community Cinema screenings across the country. Last night, producing partner KETC in St. Louis, screened the Independent Lens film Between the Folds. The film looks at fine artists and theoretical scientists who have abandoned careers and hard-earned graduate degrees to forge unconventional lives as modern-day paper-folders. Sydney Meyer of KETC gives her take below:

Wow! That was the first word that came to my mind as people kept flowing into the St. Louis History Museum for the screening of Between the Folds last evening. This was Community Cinema at its finest. Approximately 340 people showed up for the viewing of the film and I was amazed watching the diversity of people fill the auditorium and overflow onto the steps and the sides of the theater. People of all ages laughed and clapped at various parts of the film, signaling they understood what the artists were trying to communicate to them.

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