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Documentary Film Series
LAFF members have a standing invitation to a documentary film series sponsored by Philanthropy New York. This is the series’ fourth year and some of the films are shown at The Ford Foundation. Each showing is followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker and a wine and cheese reception.
The film scheduled for June 12 is The House I Live In, which “captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America’s drug war—from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Together these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war? What perpetuates it? What can be done to stop it?”
The showing will be at the Ford Foundation.
Love Free or Die is the story of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay person to become a bishop “in the historic traditions of Christendom.” The film chronicles Robinson’s personal journey “as American churches debate whether or not lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God while our nation debates whether LGBT people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of the law.”
Love Free or Die will be at the Paley Center for Media at 25 West 52nd Street on Wednesday, May 16.
Philanthropy New York is the principal professional community for 285 member organizations in the New York City region, including the leading private, corporate, family and public grantmaking foundations in the world that together annually provide some $4 billion in grants to thousands of nonprofit organizations throughout the world.
See the Philanthropy New York Documentary Series page for an updated schedule with additional offerings.
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