Show time is 7:00 pm. We'll meet inside the theatre in the downstairs waiting room, after you purchase your ticket. Please be on time - coordinator and group will wait only 15 minutes before entering the theatre to choose seats. The coordinator (Laura) will be wearing a red rose. Thanks!
Event: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples
Temple
Stanley
Nelson
USA, 2006
85 minutes
http://www.7thart.com/joomla/
On November 18, 1978,
over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder
in history. What drew so many people across racial and class lines to
the Peoples Temple? How could a diverse group of 900 people be convinced
to commit suicide? What was a California congregation doing in the jungles
of Guyana? And who was Jim Jones to command such loyalty that parents
would murder their own children? Using never before seen archival footage
and survivor interviews, 'Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple'
tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana, to
California, and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America,
in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society.
This film has been placed on the short list for possible Academy Award nomination for
feature documentary.
There will be a postscreening phone interview with the director.
This is an offering
under the Movies that Matter program: http://www.moviesthatmatter.org/
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