Film
Free Summer Series Film Screening: Stand and Deliver (1998) with Special Guests Lone Piñon
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 pm: Food Truck & Cash Bar 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Lone Piñon Live Performance 7:00 pm: Screening NHCC | Bank of America Theatre Edward James Olmos stars as Jaime Escalante in this inspirational true story about a teacher and the unmotivated East Los Angeles high school students who he inspires, badgers, threatens and humors into learning the most demanding of all math sciences--calculus. But the accomplishment is so utterly fantastic that the students are accused of cheating. Given a choice to accept the allegation or (more...)
Film Premiere: After Orange
Roy E. Disney Center for Performing Arts: Bank of America Theatre 1701 4th Street SW, Albuquerque, NM5:00 pm: Photo Booth & Cash Bar 6:30 pm: Doors 7:00 pm: Screening Q&A immediately following. Rapture Productions presents After Orange, a documentary that explores the stigma of being an ex-con. The day-to-day struggle is both external — trying to do everyday essentials like finding a job, caring for their families, and paying the bills — and internal — increasing their self-worth, dealing with the guilt of betraying their loyalties, and finding the confidence to strive for a better future. Following the lives of ex-gang leader Jeffrey (more...)