Mar 13–13, 2009, 8:00 pm
Club B-10
$8 / $5 Students with ID / Members 10% discount

$20 all three films

The fifth annual Working Films Forum is a festival of screenings and an interactive workshop for documentary filmmakers committed to using film for social advocacy. This year the focus is on community: Made in L.A., Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, and Hotel Gramercy Park all spotlight the complex workings of social, geographical and historical communities in the face of dramatic changes and challenges. Each film will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers and activists.

Working Films is a national non-profit organization based in Wilmington, N.C., and New York City that links independent documentary filmmaking with community education and organizing to ensure that documentary films reach their fullest potential. Their unique community-based media initiatives support strategic local and regional efforts, and their national organizing campaigns have been linked to high-profile documentaries broadcast on HBO, the Sundance Channel and PBS.

Learn more about this impressive organization at 2:00 PM on Saturday, March 14 at a free question-and-answer session with Robert West and Judith Helfand, co-founders of Working Films. These important activists will discuss how Working Films seeks to not only widen the range of documentaries, reaching new and untapped audiences, but also to enhance and enrich each viewer's engagement with the films, connecting the films to the issues that viewers care about most. They'll share their tactics by giving you a behind-the-scenes look at a strategy session for The Hunger Season