Athena Cinema
From the Hills and Hollers: TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL with Dr. Tiffany Arnold
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAbout the film Affable hillbillies Tucker and Dale are on vacation at their dilapidated mountain cabin when they are mistaken for murderers by a group of preppy college students. About the Speaker Dr. Tiffany Arnold is an assistant professor of instruction in the College of Health Sciences and Professions where she coordinates the Appalachian Studies... Read More
Fall Sustainability Series: TAKING ROOT: THE VISION OF WANGARI MAATHAI
Ohio University The Ridges Auditorium Building 23, Athens, OH, United StatesAbout the film Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an icon and an international inspiration. This film, by co-directors Alan... Read More
From the Hills and Hollers: CALLS FROM HOME: PRISON RADIO IN APPALACHIA with Sylvia Ryerson
Athena Cinema 20 S. Court St., Athens, OH, United StatesAbout the film Sylvia, a young radio DJ, hosts “Calls from Home”, a weekly radio call-in show in rural Kentucky that sends messages and shouts-out to people incarcerated in prisons throughout Central Appalachia, allowing the inmates and their families to bridge the iron bars of the corrections system and share a much-needed connection. Director Sylvia Ryerson... Read More