There has been a change of  date and time for our UNC Screening. The film will now be screening on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7pm at Hanes Art Center.  Dr. Howard Fuller and Ms. Ann Atwater will both be at the screening and participate in a Q&A following the screening. Dr. Fuller will also give the keynote address for Poverty Awareness Week on Friday, April 3, 2009 at Hanes Art Center. More information coming soon!

Change Comes Knocking will be screening as part of the Race In North Carolina Film Forum in Pittsboro, NC on March 21, 2009.  The screening will be at 3:00pm at 50 West Salisbury Street , Pittsboro, NC 27312. Doors open at 2:30 or earlier.  The film will be followed by a panel discussion facilitated by Producer, Rebecca Cerese.  Participants to be announced. For more information and to see other films that are screening please click here: Race in NC Film Forum flyer

There has been a change of  date and time for our UNC Screening. The film will now be screening on Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 7pm at Hanes Art Center.  Dr. Howard Fuller and Ms. Ann Atwater will both be at the screening and participate in a Q&A following the screening. Dr. Fuller will also give the keynote address for Poverty Awareness Week on Friday, April 3, 2009 at Hanes Art Center. More information coming soon!

Two exciting screening of Change Comes Knocking coming in the Spring! 

Happy New Year everyone!

 We are once again partnering with UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and the Campus Y to put on a bigger and better Poverty Awareness Week. The film will be screened on Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 7pm at the Student Union Auditorium on UNC-Campus.  Howard Fuller, former Durham community organizer and educator who is featured prominently in the film, will be joining us for several activities around the issue of poverty and education. On April 1, he will participate in a discussion following the screeing of thef ilm. On April 3, he will appear on the State of Things on WUNC at noon, and later that day will deliver the keynote address for Poverty Awareness Week. Hope you can join us for this very special event!

We have also been invited to take part in a conference sponsored by the N.C. Community Action Association, which includes many of the Community agencies, originally started by the NC Fund. The conference runs from May 18-22, and will be in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Check back for more information.  We are very excited about this screening, which will be followed by a 30 minute dialogue because we see it as a great opportunity to create relationships with organizations doing anti-poverty work across the state.

I am proud to announce that we have been chosen to screen our film at the 19th Annual New Orleans Film Festival, Oct 10-16 2008! To find out more check out the Film festival website: http://www.neworleansfilmfest.com/

Change Comes Knocking has won the award for Best Documentary at the Appalachian Film Festival in Huntington West Virginia!  Here is a link to their website to see the other winners.  Mountaintop Removal, another film sponsored by the Southern Documentary Fund won second place!  Congrats to them.

Change Comes Knocking will screen at the UNC School of Goverment, Knapp-Sanders Building, Room 2603 on April 15, 2008 at 4pm. The film will be followed by a Question and Answer with the film’s producer Rebecca Cerese.  For directions and parking information click here: http://www.sog.unc.edu/about/pdfs/SOG_Map.pdf

Change Comes Knocking has been chosen to screen as part of Appalachian Film Festival in Huntington, West Virginia at the historic Keith Albee Theater.  The film will screen on Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:45 pm.  You can find out more information at: http://www.appyfilmfest.com/

Coming off the exciting premiere screening of Change Comes Knockingat UNC-CH, we are excited to announce another screening on May 1, 2008 at the Durham Arts Council. The film begins at 7pm, and will be followed by a panel discussion with the film’s Producer, Rebecca Cerese and local Durham icon and community activist Ann Atwater.  Additional panelists to possibly be announced later. This screening is part of of Southern Documentary Fund’s Southern Docs Screening Series. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door the day of the show. For more information on this series go to http://southerndocumentaryfund.org/news/ .

The Producer of Change Comes Knocking, Rebecca Cerese was on WUNC radio’s State of Things, on Friday, March 21, 2008, at 12pm to promote the upcoming screening of her new documentary.  The screening will take place on March 25, 2008, 7pm at the Student Union Auditorium as part of UNC-CH’s poverty awareness week and will be followed by a discussion with the audience and distinguished panelists, including Billy Barnes, the director of the Fund’s office of Public Information, Rebecca Cerese, the film’s producer, Rubye Gattis, community leader and activist, and UNC History Profissor Jim Leloudis, who is currently completing a new book on the NC Fund with his Duke Univeristy colleague Dr. Bob Korstad. 

You can listen to an archive copy of the show at: http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/
You can find out more about Poverty Awareness Week here: http://campus-y.unc.edu/