Yale School of Public Health is excited to present the first Public Health Film Series, an initiative that utilizes narrative and storytelling to educate, empower, and motivate communities to serve as positive social agents of change. We will highlight a series of of feature films on a variety of topics.
You can find the lineup of films below:
Tuesday, April 3
Film: Chocolate Milk
Doors open: 5:00 PM
Film starts: 5:30 PM
Location: Winslow Auditorium (60 College Street)
Description: Chocolate Milk is a food documentary that takes a detailed look at black motherhood, breastfeeding, and the multi-billion dollar business of feeding black babies.
Website: http://www.chocolatemilkdoc.com/gotosite/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/285042212029306/
Tuesday, April 3
Film: American Circumcision
Doors open: 7:30 PM
Film starts: 8:00 PM
Location: Burke Auditorium (195 Prospect Street)
Description: American Circumcision is an award winning feature-length documentary about the modern circumcision debate, and the growing Intactivist movement, which says that all human beings should have the right to make their own choices about their bodies.
Website: http://circumcisionmovie.com
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2031057557220302/
Wednesday, April 4
Film: Denial
Doors open: 4:00 PM
Film starts: 4:30 PM
Location: Winslow Auditorium (60 College Street)
Description: Denial is a documentary feature about electricity, about gender, about family, and a story of a family coming to terms with hard personal truths against the backdrop of a global crisis.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/571124253244849/
Thursday, April 5
Film: Containment (co-screen with the Environmental Film Festival at Yale – EFFY)
Film starts: 7:30 PM
Location: Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall Street)
Description: Containment is a film about the left over hundred million gallons of radioactive sludge from the Cold War. The film weaves between an uneasy present and an imaginative, troubled far future, exploring the idea over millennia, nothing stays put.
For more detail, check out EFFY’s website: http://effy.yale.edu/effy-2018/
Friday, April 6
Film: The C Word
Doors open: 4:00 PM
Film starts: 4:30 PM
Location: Harkness Auditorium (333 Cedar Street)
Description: The C Word follows French neuroscientist and cancer revolutionary, Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, and cancer survivor and The C Word’s own director, Meghan L. O’Hara, on a wild ride of discovery; including hidden science, the absurdity of the status quo, and a vibrant cast of characters changing the game. Narrated by Morgan Freeman, The C Word message is simple, life-changing, radical: we can beat cancer before cancer beats us.
Website: http://thecwordmovie.com
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/193354247932727/
Saturday, April 7
Film: WASTED! The Story of Food Waste (co-screen with EFFY and SWAY)
Film starts: 7:30 PM
Location: Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall Street)
Description: WASTED! The Story of Food Waste aims to change the way people buy, cook, recycle, and eat food. The film exposes the criminality of food waste and how it’s directly contributing to climate change and shows us how each of us can make small changes – all of them delicious – to solve one of the greatest problems of the 21st century.
For more detail, check out EFFY’s website: http://effy.yale.edu/effy-2018/
All films will be followed by a panel discussion with the film producers and experts in the film topics.
You can find the poster below:
