SPC Films and RHA Present The Muppets

Tuesday, February 28, 11:00 p.m., Ward 1 Come join SPC Films and RHA for a free screening of The Muppets. Starring Jason Segel and Amy Adams, the Muppets attempt to save their old theater.Sponsor: RHA, SG Events, Student Activities, SUB, University Center, and Women’s InitiativeContact: sm2272a@student.american.edu Excerpted from Today@AU The Muppets Trailer

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SOC’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents: Documenting the Unseeable: Spielberg, Ground Zero, and Feeling the Rebuilding

Tuesday, February 28, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theater Mark Breeze, the producer of the “Memorial and Museum” episodes of the recent landmark six-part Discovery Channel/ Spielberg documentary on the rebuilding of Ground Zero, discusses the challenges and process of making a documentary about the rebuilding of a site that everybody knows but nobody […]

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Transgender Identity Film and Panel Discussion – Wednesday, February 22, 7:00 p.m., EQB Lounge

Wednesday, February 22, 7:00 p.m., EQB Lounge (East Quad Building)7:00 p.m., film, “Transgeneration”8:00 p.m., panel discussion on transgender identity, with Edgardo Merville, director of the Gender and Sexuality Program at Children’s National Medical Center; John Strang, staff psychologist, Children’s National Medical Center; Hunter and Tracey, persons who have transitioned gender9:15 p.m., pizzaSponsor: Department of PsychologyContact: […]

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SOC’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents: Exploring the Potential Power of Film in Protecting America’s National Parks

Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler TheaterStephen Shackelton, a top executive and Chief Ranger with the National Park Service (NPS), shows stunning stills and clips of our iconic national parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite, and describes how NPS uses the media to protect and conserve these national jewels Sponsor: SOC’s Center for […]

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SOC’s Center for Environmental Filmmaking Presents “Defending Eden”: Indigenous People, Conservation, and Film

Tuesday, February 14, 7:00 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler TheaterHow storytelling over multiple media platforms might enable Ecuador’s Waorani people to defend their biologically rich territory from the incursion of industry. Filmmakers Keith Heyward and Jennifer Berglund of Prehensile Productions will discuss their film and their experience as new environmental filmmakers trying to hang on […]

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