Mid Michigan College is hosting a Documentary Screening Series on select Tuesdays throughout the Winter 2025 semester. All screenings are free and everyone is welcome to attend.
The series is presented by Mid’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Action (IDEA) Committee and Laker Life.
“We’re excited to bring back this series and share films that will lead to interesting, thoughtful discussions about current topics of interest,” said Amy Fisher, Dean of Business & Professional Students and IDEA Committee Chair at Mid.
Those interested in attending can join the event on Mid’s Mt. Pleasant Campus in the Community Room at 11am on the Tuesdays listed below.
- Tuesday, January 21 | Poverty Awareness Month | Common Ground
- By fusing journalistic expose’ with deeply personal stories from those on the front lines of the sustainable food movement, Common Ground unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. As the highly anticipated sequel to Kiss the Ground, the film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and Indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy – before it’s too late.
- Tuesday, February 11 | Black History Month | Descendant
- Descendants of the enslaved Africans on an illegal ship that arrived in Alabama in 1860 seek justice and healing when the craft’s remains are discovered.
- Tuesday, March 18 | Women’s History Month | Feminists: What Were They Thinking?
- In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening — women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. Feminists: What Were They Thinking? revisits those photos, those women, and those times — and takes aim at our current culture revealing all too vividly the urgent need for continued change. The film offers candid and riveting interviews with women such as Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Judy Chicago, and Laurie Anderson tackling topics ranging from identity, abortion, race, childhood, and motherhood. A Netflix original documentary directed by Johanna Demetrakas.
- Tuesday, April 8 | Sexual Assault Awareness Month | Audrie & Daisy
- In this heartbreaking documentary, two teens are cruelly cyberbullied after learning that sexual assault crimes against them were caught on camera.
“We hope to see many students and community members attend these screenings,” noted Fisher. “It’s important to experience different perspectives and these films help us do that.”
For more information about Mid’s Documentary Screening Series, visit midmich.edu/documentaries.
