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WHRO Public Media's Emerging Leaders Board is once again partnering with a national public media documentary company to create opportunities for community dialogues around crucial topics. Throughout the year, the board will be working with Independent Lens, America’s home for independent documentary film, to provide Indie Lens Pop-Ups, “a neighborhood series that brings people together for film screenings and community-driven conversations.”
The upcoming season features stories of people facing adversity and overcoming incredible odds. We hope you will join us!
Storming Caesars Palace
A group of welfare mothers listen intently to an explanation of the state's latest move during a sit-in at the Columbia Point housing project.
Screening Date: Thursday, March 16, 2023, 6:30 PM
Location: ForKids, inc.
1001 Poindexter Street
Chesapeake, VA 23324
Directed by Hazel Gurland-Pooler
After losing her job as a hotel worker in Las Vegas, Ruby Duncan joined a welfare rights group of mothers who defied notions of the “welfare queen.” In a fight for guaranteed income, Ruby and other equality activists took on the Nevada mob in organizing a massive protest that shut down Caesars Palace.
Free Chol Soo Lee
TV news crews surround Chol Soo Lee after he is released from prison on March 28, 1983.
Screening Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6:30 PM
Location TBA
Directed by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi
Sentenced to death for a lurid 1973 San Francisco murder, Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee was set free after a pan-Asian solidarity movement of Korean, Japanese, and Chinese Americans helped to overturn his conviction. After 10 years of fighting for his life inside San Quentin, Lee found himself in a new fight to rise to the expectations of the people who believed in him.
