Media Advisory
For Saturday, February 25
Contact: Beth Spezia, WSIU Educational Outreach Coordinator, (618) 453-5595, beth.spezia@wsiu.org; Diana Brawley Sussman, Director, Carbondale Public Library, (618) 457-0354, ext. 313, dbrawley@carbondale.lib.il.us; Lisa Tawil, ITVS, (415) 356-8383, lisa_tawil@itvs.org
Free Indie Lens Pop-Up Event is Saturday, February 25
Film Screening of “The Bad Kids”
Carbondale, IL – Reporters, photographers, and camera crews are invited to cover a free film screening of The Bad Kids, presented by WSIU Public Broadcasting, a service of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the Carbondale Public Library, in partnership with Indie Lens Pop-Up, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), and the PBS series Independent Lens.
The event will be held on Saturday, February 25 at 2:30pm at the Carbondale Public Library, 405 W. Main.
Tina Carpenter, Director of Operations at the Boys & Girls Club of Carbondale, will lead a discussion after the film.
Located in an isolated and impoverished Mojave Desert community, Black Rock Continuation High School is one of California’s alternative schools for at-risk students. Every student there has fallen so far behind that they have little hope of earning a diploma at a traditional high school. Black Rock is their last chance. But Principal Vonda Viland and the teachers at Black Rock are on a mission to realize the potential of students who have been deemed lost causes by the system.
For more information about the film, visit WSIU’s local Indie Lens Pop-Up webpage at wsiu.org/indielenspopup or visit the Indie Lens Pop-Up website at pbs.org/independentlens/indie-lens-pop-up
Questions about upcoming screenings at the Carbondale Public Library should be directed to (618) 457-0345 or by contacting WSIU’s Educational Outreach Coordinator, Beth Spezia, at (618) 453-5595, beth.spezia@wsiu.org.
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