NIH SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA - FREE SCREENINGS!
Date: Wed, July 15th 2009Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.
External Link: Event Website
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center
| NIH SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA FREE SCREENINGS! Wednesdays at 7:00pm, July 8 - August 12 |
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This summer, AFI Silver will once again host the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Education's (OSE) exciting public program, Science in the Cinema. This six-week series offers a different film with a medical or science-related theme every Wednesday. An audience Q&A session with a guest expert follows each screening. Admission is FREE!
Science in the Cinema is open to the general public and intended for a broad range of individuals interested in movies, science and medicine. For more information on this year's lineup of films and guest speakers, visit Science.education.nih.gov/cinema
All films will be shown with open captions for the deaf and hard of hearing and American Sign Language interpreters will be available for the post-film discussions. Those requiring reasonable accommodations to participate should contact OSE at least five days prior to the event:
Email: moorec@mail.nih.gov
Phone: 301.402.2470
TTY: 301.496.9706
TICKETS: Tickets are ONLY available from the AFI Silver box office on the day of the screening. Reservations cannot be made by phone. There is a limit of four tickets per person, on a first-come, first-served basis. The AFI Silver box office opens 30 minutes before the first film of each day.
Wednesday, July 8, 7:00
Yesterday lives in a remote village in South Africa's Zululand. Her everyday life is not easy--and the precarious balance is threatened when she is diagnosed with AIDS and must journey afar to understand and confront her illness. Nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
DIR Darrell Roodt. 2004
Wednesday, July 15, 7:00
A unique love story of an estranged husband (Ed Norton) and wife (Naomi Watts) who find redemption and unexpected grace in a very unlikely place- a remote Chinese village ravaged by a cholera epidemic. Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
DIR John Curran. 2006
Wednesday, July 22, 7:00
Emmy Award®-winners Kenneth Branagh and Cynthia Nixon star in the true but little-known story about the physical and spiritual evolution of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Left a paraplegic from polio in 1921 at age 39, the film follows the future president as he seeks out a "miracle" cure in the backwoods of rural Georgia.
DIR Joseph Sargent. 2005
Wednesday, July 29, 7:00
Based on the real-life "Scopes Monkey Trial" in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. Starring Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly. Nominated for four Academy Awards.
DIR Stanley Kramer. 1960
Wednesday, August 5, 7:00
The story of Romulus (Eric Bana) and his wife, who struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond-- a boy trying to balance a universe described by his deeply moral father, against the experience of heartbreaking absence and neglect from a depressive mother. Based on Raimond Gaita's critically acclaimed memoir.
DIR Richard Roxburgh. 2007
Wednesday, August 12, 7:00
When Claude Gerstle, a surgeon and athlete, suffers a bicycle accident that leaves him paralyzed, he and his daughter find hope in the politicized area of science called stem cells. A wheelchair odyssey of a father and daughter who track down the thinkers, the politicians, the crusaders and the naysayers in an effort to understand the potential of the science and why a political quagmire is stalling a cure.
DIR Jessica Gerstle. 2008