East Bay Film! Albany FilmFest and the Berkeley Film Foundation Present
Courage, Hope, Resistance: 5 Films about Social Justice
Please join us for this outstanding monthly series of five independent documentary films by award-winning East Bay filmmakers. One film each month, from June through September, will focus on people fighting back when their lives and freedoms are threatened. Stay after the films for a lively panel discussion and interactive audience Q&A with the filmmaker and guests. All films screen at Rialto Cinemas Cerrito. Get your series pass today and save on all five films!
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on The Brink
Thursday, October 16 7pm
Not Rated
Documentary
Dir. Rick Goldsmith
The story of a secretive hedge fund that is plundering what is left of America’s newspapers, and the journalists who are fighting back. Backed by the NewsGuild union, they go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.
