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Please join us for a FREE New Orleans Community Cinema Screening!
By MAI ISKANDER
Saturday, January 23, 2010
6:00 PM
Dillard University
Samuel DuBois Cook Fine Arts Center - MAP
2601 Gentilly Boulevard
New Orleans, LA 70112
FREE Admission!
Welcome to the world's largest garbage village located on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt. The Zaballeen (Arabic for garbage people) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect-far more than other recycling initiatives. But now a multi-national corporation threatens their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys born into the business who are forced to make choices that will impact the survival of their community. Watch the Official Film Trailer!
Guest Speakers:
Beth Stelson, The Green Project
Lonnie Schaffer, Strike it Green
Perry Booth, Phoenix Recycling, Inc.
Jerald L. White, Charitable Film Network
Community Cinema is a free monthly screening series that pairs independently produced documentary films on timely and important social issues with leading organizations working on related issues in communities across the country. Screenings are followed by a panel discussion, featured speaker, or other presentation. For more information visit: www.communitycinema.org or contact mail@chairtablefilmnetwork.org.
Sponsored By:
CHARITABLE FILM NETWORK, New Orleans Office of Film & Television, Louisiana Office of Entertainment Industry Development, Public Broadcasting Service, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Arts, Independent Television Service, The Green Project, Strike it Green, Phoenix Recycling, and the Dillard University Theater Department.
