Media Advisory
For Saturday, March 31, 2012
Contact:Vickie Devenport, WSIU Outreach Coordinator, (618) 453-6148, vickie.devenport@wsiu.org
Carbondale, Ill.- Reporters, photographers, and camera crews are invited to cover the third of five free Community Cinema film screenings this Saturday, March 31 at 2:30pm at the Carbondale Public Library, 405 West Main in Carbondale.
Ralph Tate, director of the SIU School of Information Systems & Applied Technology, will lead a discussion after the film and will display an electric car he and his father built.
This Saturday's film is Revenge of the Electric Car, a one-hour documentary that goes behind the closed doors of Nissan, GM, and Tesla Motors to chronicle the story of the global resurgence of electric cars.
Sponsored and presented by WSIU Public Broadcasting, the public media arm of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and the Carbondale Public Library, Community Cinema is a public education initiative featuring free monthly films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Carbondale is one of more than 95 cities nationwide participating in the project, which is designed to bring communities together to learn about, discuss, and get involved in the key social issues of our time.
Upcoming screenings include: Hell and Back Again (April 28), and Strong! (May 26).
For more information about WSIU's Community Cinema project, contact Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org. A website with more details is available at wsiu.org/communitycinema. Participants in the screenings are invited to continue the discussion on WSIU's Facebook page at facebook.com/wsiutv.
Community Cinemais a service of Independent Television Services (ITVS) and is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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