REEL Topics and Talk
RPCVSF members and friends are invited to view and discuss “Citizen Four,” an Academy Award winning documentary about Edward Snowden who is now in exile in Russia after leaking classified documents. The film will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12th at the home of Helene Dudley (RPCV Colombia, Albania/Slovakia) – 2151 SW 17 St, Miami. Please RSVP to helenedudley@yahoo.com and bring a drink or light refreshment to share.
Other films in the series include:
- Living on One Dollar a Day, an award-winning documentary offering insights into the reality of living on meager and erratic earnings (shown in August)
- Inequality for All a documentary featuring Robert Reich (shown in September)
- Sugar Babies - Haitian children working in the Dominical Republic sugar cane fields, (pending)
- Taking Root – about Kenya Nobel Peace Prize recipient who planted trees (pending)
- Death of Two Sons -- the story of Amadou Diallo, the West African immigrant shot 41 times by four New York City police officers in 1999, and of Jesse Thyne, a Peace Corps Volunteer who lived with Amadou's family in his home village in Guinea. Jesse was killed in a car accident during Peace Corps service. (pending)
If you would like to borrow any of these documentaries to show in your own home please contact helenedudley@yahoo.com. We are happy to assist others in replicating this consciousness-raising film series.
