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DocNights: Gather
Film screening and talkback co-presented with Philadelphia Film Society
Date and time
Location
Online
About this event
DocNights, the Jefferson Humanities & Health collaboration with Philadelphia Film Society, continues this fall with a new programming focus: environmental justice. Join us for our second film screening and talkback, featuring the documentary Gather.
Virtual Screening | Tues., November 16, 5:30-6:45 p.m. | Reserve a free ticket here (film also available on Kanopy for Jefferson students, faculty, and staff to watch on their own time here)
Virtual Talkback | Tues., November 16, 7-9 p.m. | Register through Eventbrite
About the Film and Talkback
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide.
Gather follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous café as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river.
Following the screening, Twila Cassadore and Nephi Craig, two people featured in the documentary, will join us via Zoom for a film talkback moderated by Rabiya Bower, MHSc, RD, LDN, Coordinator, MS in Nutrition & Dietetic Practice Program, Teaching Instructor, Jefferson College of Health Professions, Thomas Jefferson University.
View the Film
Join a virtual film screening before the talkback! Reserve a free ticket here.
About DocNights
DocNights is a collaboration between Jefferson and the Philadelphia Film Society that showcases documentaries about diverse issues related to environmental justice.
Co-sponsored by Jefferson Humanities & Health and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives, Sidney Kimmel Medical College.
This online event is free and open to Jefferson and public viewers. Please register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom link for the virtual talkback.