Price: $9 general; $7 seniors, students, teachers; $4.50 Film
Streams Members
A documentary about the causes of global poverty will be the springboard for a conversation about efforts to combat poverty in Omaha when
Film Streams and
inCOMMON Community Development collaborate on a special screening of
THE END OF POVERTY? THINK AGAIN.
Presented for one-night-only, the film will screen on Tuesday, June 8, at 7 p.m. at Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theater, 1340 Mike Fahey (formerly Webster) Street.
The End of Poverty? Panel Discussion
Following the film will be a panel discussion on global and local poverty, and efforts underway in Omaha. The discussion will be moderated by
Rev. Dwight L. Ford, Executive Director of
Eastern Nebraska Community Action Partnership (
ENCAP). Panelists will include:
Professor A’Jamal Byndon, Director of
Omaha Table Talk and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Black Studies at
UNO;
Chris Heuertz, International Executive Director of
Word Made Flesh and author of
Friendship at the Margins: Discovering Mutuality in Service and Mission; and
Annemarie Bailey Fowler, business owner and former Opportunity@Work and Research Coordinator at
Voices for Children in Nebraska.
A daring and thought-provoking documentary,
THE END OF POVERTY? traces the roots of global poverty to policy decisions that have lasted for centuries. Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin America, the film casts a light on the deeper institutional issues surrounding poverty and causing it to proliferate. Actor and activist Martin Sheen narrates
THE END OF POVERTY?, which also features expert insights from: Nobel prize winners in Economics, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Perkins and Chalmers Johnson; university professors William Easterly and Michael Watts; and government ministers such as Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro Garcia Linera. It was produced by Cinema Libre Studio in collaboration with the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.
This collaborative film event is part of Film Streams’ Community Development Program, which facilitates partnerships with other nonprofits and community groups on film-related events that speak to their missions and programming. inCOMMON Community Development fights poverty by working with residents to build social capital and improve systemic structures within vulnerable neighborhoods.
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