The Freedom Side Film Series - Presented with the ACLU of Maine
Since it’s inception, SPACE has championed rigorous dialogue around threats to human rights an challenges to civil liberties. Partnering with the ACLU of Maine we present THE FREEDOM SIDE FILM SERIES exploring issues around racial justice, reproductive rights, the impact of mass incarceration, and immigration.
Film: WHOSE STREETS? (With Filmmaker Sabaah Folayan)
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and renewed anger bring residents together to hold... MORE
Monday09.18.2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID
Film: WHOSE STREETS? (With Filmmaker Sabaah Folayan)
Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and renewed anger bring residents together to hold... MORE
Wednesday09.20.2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID
Film: JACKSON
Abortion remains legal in the United States but anti-abortion efforts have succeeded in making it virtually inaccessible in some places and in the Deep South, often unthinkable. At one time Mississippi had fourteen abortion clinics. Now only one remains.
Since the passage of Roe v. Wade more than four decades ago, the self-labeled “pro-life” movement has won significant cultural, political and... MORE
Wednesday10.18.2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID
Film: THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES
An essential documentary, Brett Story’s incisive, investigative and wide-ranging THE PRISON IN TWELVE LANDSCAPES is an examination of the prison and its place – social, economic and psychological – in American society.
Today, more people are imprisoned in the United States than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight.... MORE
Thursday11.09.2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID
Film: FROM NOWHERE
Three undocumented teenagers — a Dominican girl, an African boy and a Peruvian girl — are just about to graduate high school in the Bronx. Like most teenagers, all they want to do is hang with their friends, fall in love, and figure out where to go to college; but unlike their American classmates, these three live with the threat of being discovered by the authorities and deported. When one of... MORE
Wednesday12.13.2017
Doors open at 6:30pm
$8
$6 For SPACE Members and Students w/ ID