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Media Advisory For Sat, Sept 29 - Community Cinema Launch

Media Advisory

For Saturday, September 29 • 2:30pm

Contacts: Vickie Devenport, WSIU Outreach Coordinator, (618) 453-6148, vickie.devenport@wsiu.org

WSIU Launches New Season of Community Cinema This Saturday

Carbondale, Ill.-- Reporters, camera crews, and photographers are invited to cover the launch of a second season of Community Cinema, a series of free public screenings and discussion of films presented by WSIU Public Broadcasting, the public media arm of SIU Carbondale, and the Carbondale Public Library. The film series kicks off at the library this Saturday, September 29 at 2:30pm with the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.

Half the Sky uses current investigations and emotionally explosive storytelling to confront the oppression of women and girls around the world by trafficking, prostitution, violence, and discrimination. Filmed in 10 countries and inspired by the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the film follows Kristoff and six actress-advocates as they meet the inspiring people working to bring about change and the women and girls who confront extreme gender inequality in their daily lives.

Jenn Freitag, Prevention Educator for Rape Crisis Services, Women's Center-Carbondale, and Shannon Lindsay Toth, a doctoral student in Women's Studies at SIU Carbondale, will lead a discussion with the audience after the film.

WSIUand the Carbondale Public Library will host Community Cinema screenings at the library at 2:30pm on the last Saturday of each month through June 2013, with the exception of December. The remaining schedule: As Goes Janesville (October 27), Solar Mamas (November 24), Soul Food Junkies (January 26), The Powerbroker (February 23), Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (March 30),The Island President (April 27), The Revolutionary Optimists (May 25), and Love Free or Die (June 29).

For more information, contact Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org or go online at wsiu.org/communitycinema.

About Community Cinema

Community Cinemais a national civic engagement initiative of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and the Emmy® Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. The project brings to light unforgettable stories about unique individuals, underrepresented communities, or pivotal moments in history. It is the largest public interest outreach program in public or commercial television. Carbondale is among over 100 cities nationally are participating in the project. Community Cinema is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

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