2:30-4 p.m.

The Learning a film by Ramona Diaz

American teachers established the English-speaking public school system in the Philippines100 years ago. Now, in a striking turnaround, American schools are recruiting Filipino teachers. This film is the story of four Filipino teachers who come to Baltimore hoping to use their earnings to transform their families’ impoverished lives back home. However, the women’s idealistic visions of the job soon collide with Baltimore’s tough realities.

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4:10–5:30 p.m.

Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale a film by Marilyn Ness

What if your life-saving medicine contained deadly viruses—and the drug manufacturers, the government, and your own doctors knew but failed to warn you? This film chronicles how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of death for 10,000 Americans, as well as the hemophilia community’s powerful and inspiring fight to right the system that failed them and make it safer for all.

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8-9:05 a.m.

Cafeteria Man a film by Richard Chisolm

After several angry kids brought their horrible cafeteria food to the Baltimore City School Board, food expert and chef Tony Geraci came to town as the new food and nutrition director. His plan: feed kids healthy, locally-sourced meals, teach them nutritional awareness, and offer them vocational opportunities in the world of food. "Cafeteria Man" chronicles Geraci’s tenacious efforts to kick-start school reform in Baltimore.

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9:15-10:45 a.m.

To Be Heard a film by Roland Legiardi-Laura, Deborah Shaffer, Amy Sultan, and Eddie Martinez

This award-winning PBS production tells the story of three Bronx, N.Y., high school students and three innovative, courageous educators who develop a unique program using literacy and poetry to empower young people through language. In our country—where two thirds of all those enmeshed in the penal system are functionally illiterate and only one in eight adults can read well enough to understand the U.S. Constitution—"To Be Heard" helps show why we are in need of new approaches to these problems.

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2:30–4 p.m.

Funding Innovation in Media and Technology—A Social Impact Conversation

Join Leetha Filderman, president of PopTech, and Josh Nesbit, executive director of Medic Mobile, for a discussion about media and technology innovation for social change. Hear how collaborative initiatives like PeaceTXT—led by PopTech and partners Medic Mobile and CureViolence—are creating simple, sustainable, and scalable projects that have huge impact worldwide—from health care delivery to stopping the spread of violence. PeaceTXT is supported by the Rita Allen Foundation, with additional support from the Indigo Trust.

4:10-5:45 p.m.

Our School a film by Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma

Three Roma children from a small Transylvanian town participate in a project to desegregate the local school, struggling against indifference, tradition, and bigotry with humor, optimism, and sass. This film is a captivating and often funny story about hope and race, as well as an elegy about generational prejudice and squandered opportunities.

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10:30 a.m. - Noon

The True Cost of Deportation: Sin Pais Screening and Discussion a film by Theo Rigby

Join Media Impact Funders, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, and Hispanics in Philanthropy for a special screening and discussion of “Sin Pais.” Learn how deportation and current immigration policies connect to a wide range of philanthropic concerns, including public health and safety, community vitality, family cohesion, and social and economic justice. Participants include filmmaker Theo Rigby; Gilbert Mejia, featured in “Sin Pais”; Diana Campoamor, president of Hispanics in Philanthropy; and Edward Kissam, co-trustee of the Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund.

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1:15–2:30 p.m.

Movie with a Mission: A Conversation about Bullying

More than 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of violence experienced by young people in the nation. "Bully," a film by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, offers an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families.

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3-4:30 p.m.

Interrupting Gun Violence – Short Screenings and Discussion

The nation is grappling with yet another mass shooting, and this time the young victims have sparked a more widespread and united call for change in access to and regulation of guns in America. Nonprofit advocacy and education groups have been leading calls for sensible regulations and common sense approaches to gun safety for years. And media organizations have shined light on the scope and seriousness of the problems associated with our country’s rampant gun violence. Join us for a lively discussion about philanthropy’s role in supporting nonprofit advocacy and media organizations in their work to change the national conversation about sensible gun regulations. We’ll show clips from several foundation-funded documentary films, including "The Interrupters", "No Tomorrow", and "Living for 32".

4:45–6:10 p.m.

Where Soldiers Come From a film by Heather Courtney

From a snowy, small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, this film follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard after graduating from high school. It offers an intimate look at the young Americans who fight our wars, the families and towns they come from—and the way one faraway conflict changes everything.

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6-9 p.m.

Monday Night at the Movies: The Power of Two a film by Marc Smolowitz
Dinner, Movie, and Discussion
Registration is required for this event. Tickets are $60.

Join us for dinner and a screening of "The Power of Two" with the film’s director, Academy Award nominee Marc Smolowitz, and heroines Anabel Stenzel and Isabel Stenzel Byrnes. The film offers an intimate portrayal of the bond between Japanese-American twin sisters Anabel and Isabel, including their battle with the fatal genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF) and miraculous survival through double lung transplants. Their opportunity to live healthy lives—thanks to the gift of organ donation—compelled them to become advocates for better access to health care, treatment, and transplantation worldwide. You’ll also hear how "The Power of Two" multimedia project has inspired and motivated action around organ donation and transplantation, and raised awareness of CF and other chronic illnesses.

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