Walker Moving Image presents Documentary Premieres on Civic Engagement
Time for Ilhan
Directed by Norah Shapiro
Friday, September 21, 7 pm *SOLD OUT*
Saturday, September 22, 2 & 7pm
Friday, September 28, 7pm
Saturday, September 29, 2pm
Walker Cinema, $10 ($8 Walker members)
“Time for Ilhan stresses the need for citizens to exercise their right to vote, the importance of passion and oratory skills for leadership, and how essential it is to a community and country of immigrants that government representation be diverse. Women, especially women of colour, can and should run—the world!” — Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs Film Festival
| Capturing the dramatic journey of one of America’s rising political stars, Norah Shapiro’s Time for Ilhan follows 34-year-old Ilhan Omar from the campaign trail to the Minnesota House of Representatives. Running on a platform of social justice and advocating for the right of all to have a voice, Omar is the first Somali American and first black Muslim woman elected to a state legislature in the US. 2018, DCP, 89 min. |
The sold-out screening on Friday, September 21 will be introduced by director Norah Shapiro and the film’s subject, Representative Ilhan Omar.
Both screenings on Saturday, September 22 will be introduced by the director Norah Shapiro.
A post-screening discussion follows the Saturday, September 22, 2pm screening moderated by NBC-affiliate KARE 11 news anchor Jana Shortal.
View:
Time for Ilhan website
Trailer
Read more:
Women and Hollywood Q&A
MinnPost review
Film Journal review
Anne De Mare’s Capturing the Flag, 2018. Photo courtesy the artist.
Cinema of Urgency: Capturing the Flag
By Anne de Mare
Thursday, October 18, 7pm
Walker Cinema, Free
Friday, October 19, 7pm
Saturday, October 20, 2pm
Walker Cinema, $10 ($8 Walker members)
| “Through their work on this one day, we see just what’s involved in protecting the cornerstone democratic principle of “one person, one vote.” —Full Frame Documentary Film Festival |
| This is what voter protection looks like. Three months before the 2016 election, a tight-knit volunteer group travels to North Carolina to legally observe and assist voters. Their experiences during that long day at the polls serves as both warning and call to action to protect and participate in the right to vote. Deeply personal, often surprising perspectives prove that the big idea of American democracy can be defended by small acts of individual citizens. 2018, DCP, 76 minutes. |
On Thursday, stay for a post-screening discussion with the director Anne de Mare, producer Laverne Berry, one of the film’s voter protection volunteers, and Nasser Mussa, Minnesota’s Director of Voter Outreach.
View:
Trailer
Read more:
Women and Hollywood interview with Anne de Mare
Frederick Wiseman’s Monrovia, Indiana, 2018. Photo courtesy Zipporah Films
Monrovia, Indiana
By Frederick Wiseman
Premiere
Friday, November 2, 7pm
Saturday, November 3, 7pm
Walker Cinema, $10 ($8 Walker members)
“Mr. Wiseman is an artist. His shots are carefully composed and painstakingly edited into assemblages that reveal the layers and patterns of experience. His movies are not raw transcripts of reality, but artifacts and representations, at once abstract and laden with content.” —The New York Times
Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s ode to small town rural America explores a farming community, Monrovia, IN, illustrating how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived along with conflicting cultural stereotypes. The film is an immersive and nuanced portrait of today’s rural, mid-American way of life featuring Monrovia’s town meetings, schools, churches, barber shops, café counters, and front porches against the constant backdrop of U.S. agricultural production. 2018, DCP, 143 minutes
Read more:
The Guardian on Frederick Wiseman
Forward on Frederick Wiseman