For the second year in a row, Washington University Libraries partnered with Cinema St. Louis and others to present “Mean Streets,” a five-day program of both narrative and documentary works that show how film and television reflect problems within U.S. society, including the overt an...
“Never Been A Time,” a film by Denise Ward-Brown, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, will debut this Sunday, Nov. 5, 7:30 pm as part of the 26th annual St. Louis International Film Festival. This free screening ...
A free screening of the new documentary “Jane” will take place on Thursday, November 2, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in Brown Hall 118 on the Danforth Campus of Washington University. Using a trove of footage from the National Geographic archives, “Jane” tells the true story of Jane Goodall...
Viewers will have a chance to watch the rare civil rights documentary The Streets of Greenwood at an upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival screening. The short documentary will be shown before a special free screening of In the Heat of the Night (1967) directed by Norman Jewison as part ...
“Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City Through the Lens of Film and Television,” will screen as part of the upcoming St. Louis International Film Festival and is presented by Washington University Libraries, Washington University’s Sam Fox School’s College of Architecture and Graduate Sch...
The Mean Streets programming that was part of the Divided City Initiative also included films that examined the issues of segregation and how communities deal with mass incarceration and gun violence. A high point of the program was the screening of Chi-Raq (dir. Spike Lee, 2015) with screenwrit...
Many films in the Mean Streets program featured St. Louis and the recent events in Ferguson that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement and a national discussion about race, segregation, and police brutality. Bob’s Tour: Understanding What We See, directed by Washington University graduate...
