Past Events


Nov. 15, 2008

mark ruffalo“What Doesn't Kill You" (Yari Film Group)

With Mark Ruffalo, 2008 Best Actor contender
 
Based on a true story of two childhood friends from Boston who turned to underworld crime as a way to survive. Will they be able to escape and find redemption? Co-starring Ethan Hawke.

 


Nov. 13, 2008

melissa leo“Frozen River” (Sony Pictures Classic)

With Melissa Leo, 2008 Best Actress contender

Two women — one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances — confront hard ethical choices and seek comfort and justice in a cold world.

Nov. 3, 2008

richard jenkins“The Visitor” (Overture Films)

With Richard Jenkins, 2008 Best Actor contender.

An intimate drama about a college professor, Walter Vale, who discovers a pair of homeless, illegal aliens in his New York apartment. When he invites the couple — a young Syrian musician and his Senegalese girlfriend — to stay, an unlikely friendship develops.

Oct. 30, 2008

movie poster for "the greatest silence"“The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo” (Boston premiere)

With Lisa F. Jackson, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker

"The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo," a film produced and directed by Lisa F. Jackson, features the stories of women who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured by soldiers. A civil war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the late 1990s, and tens of thousands of women and girls have fallen victim to brutal acts of sexual violence.