2008-2009 Westminster Documentary Film Series 

Westminster College has partnered with the Salt Lake City Film Center for the 2008-2009 Westminster Documentary Film Series. The series is sponsored by the Westminster College Office of the President and is curated by the Salt Lake City Film Center. This year's film series is titled Be the Change and the theme is activism. We are focusing on grassroots movements, where individuals really make a difference and impact their communities and world. Each film will include a speaker who has worked closely with the film, giving the audience the opportunities to analyze and ask questions of what was viewed.

All documentary films will be shown in the Vieve Gore Auditorium located in the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts and Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory.

Beyond The Call

Wednesday, November 5, 8:00 PM
Reception at 7:30 PM

Special Guest Director Adrian Belic for post film dicussion.

In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three eccentric middle-aged men - former soldiers and modern-day knights - travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors. Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman inspire through deeds not words, in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of war.

Film website with trailer and upcoming screenings: http://www.beyondthecallthemovie.com 

Fire Under the Snow

Wednesday, March 11, 8:00 PM
Reception 7:30 PM

Khando Chazotsang, the niece of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tsering Gyaltsen, Utah Tibetan Association and Tashi Dhondup, film correspondent

This year is the 50th anniversary of Palden Gyatso's imprisonment after His Holiness the Dalai Lama's escape into India after the March 10, 1959 unsuccessful uprising of Tibetans against Chinese invasion. Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was jailed and tortured for 33 years for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and for refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. To this day Palden is dedicated to his faith and compassion for all humanity, even his torturers, while still campaigning for a free Tibet. Fire Under the Snow is the inspirational story of the survival and triumph of a mind and a soul under unthinkable duress.

Film website with trailer and upcoming screenings: http://www.beyondthecallthemovie.com