El Barrio Tours, Andrew Padilla’s 28-minute documentary short, focuses on the changing demographics in an area once considered immune to gentrification due to the high number of public housing projects. The film, which won Best Documentary Short at the 2012 Puerto Rican International Film Festival and the 2013 Peoples’ Film Festival, documents some of the area’s most dramatic changes over the past decade. Registration is required
The Educational Film Series aims to show current films that broaden our understandings of schools, highlight current issues in education, and spark discussion and dialogue. Documentary films by emerging and well-known filmmakers are screened, followed by small group discussion and Q&A with the filmmaker, Sarah Lawrence College faculty, or other guests. The films are free and open to the public.
Sponsors: DAPS, Film History, Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts, Foreign and Classical Languages, Graduate Studies, Music, Psychology, Rebecca Johnson, the Child Development Graduate Program, the Dance Movement Therapy Program, the Dean of Equity and Inclusion, the Early Childhood Center, the Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, the Social Justice Co-op, and the Writing Institute
Promotional Sponsors: Asian Studies, Chemistry, the Anita L. Stafford Community Partnerships and Service Learning Program, the Esther Raushenbush Library, the Graduate Theatre Program, the Graduate Dance Program, the Graduate Writing Program, and the Health Advocacy Program