KNPB's Featured Screening
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KNPB continues to invite interested parties to screen a variety of programs from the P.O.V. 2010 season. |
Join us for a special screening of this film at KNPB's Community Room, located at 1670 N. Virginia Street in Reno. A light dinner and a facilitated discussion will follow the screening.
If you are interested in attending, RSVP to Katie Steward, Coordinator of Community Outreach by email at katies@knpb.org or 775-682-7802.
Presumed Guilty:
featured on Tuesday, August 3 at 6:00pm
Imagine being picked up off the street, told you have committed a murder you know nothing about and then finding yourself sentenced to 20 years in jail. In December 2005 this happened to Toño Zúñiga in Mexico City. The award-winning film is the story of two young lawyers and their struggle to free Zúñiga. More...
The Edge of Dreaming:
featured on Tuesday, August 10 at 6:00pm
When filmmaker Amy Hardie dreamed one night that her horse was dying, only to wake the next morning and find the horse dead, she dismissed the incident as a coincidence. Then she dreamed she would die at age 48 — only one year away. This film is an evocative, intimate chronicle of that year and a fascinating investigation into the human subconscious. More...
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee:
featured on Tuesday, August 17 at 6:00pm
Her passport said she was Cha Jung Hee. She knew she was not. So began a 40-year deception for a Korean adoptee who came to the United States in 1966. Told to keep her true identity secret from her new American family, the 8-year-old girl quickly forgot she had ever been anyone else. But why had her identity been switched? And who was the real Cha Jung Hee? More...
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Good Fortune:
featured on Tuesday, July 27 at 6:00pm
This film is a provocative exploration of how massive international efforts to alleviate poverty in Africa may be undermining the very communities they aim to benefit. More...
Join us for a special screening of this film at KNPB's Community Room, located at 1670 N. Virginia Street in Reno. A light dinner and a facilitated discussion will follow the screening.
If you are interested in attending, RSVP to Katie Steward, Coordinator of Community Outreach by email at katies@knpb.org or 775-682-7802.
These programs are a collaboration with P.O.V., the acclaimed independent non-fiction film series on PBS. Visit the series' companion site online at pbs.org/pov.