Vino Vérité: Jane Elliott Against The World

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Presented by Bread Garden Market, Little Village, and FilmScene DIALOGUE: With filmmaker Judd Ehrlich and special guests Sunday, September 13, 7pm Vino Vérité returns with Jane Elliott Against the World, a profile of the fiery Iowa educator, renowned for her controversial classroom experiments to counter racial discrimination. The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market. Tickets: $25 public / $20 members / $12 students. Includes wine tasting, film, hors d’oeuvres and filmmaker reception. 6:30 Hors d’oeuvres & wine tasting 7:00 Screening 8:30 Q&A + Reception with filmmaker, wine and dessert “Jane Elliott Against the World is a powerful call to action, pushing you to do more than bear witness… to fight the good fight on a local level.”—Little Village “Firecracker energy… the film covers so much ground, as if trying to keep up with the speed at which she speaks and the dynamics of her ideas. Despite the film’s title.. in reality she’s very much for the world.”—RogerEbert.com “The mere example of someone willing to start the conversation in the first place seems to be what will open the door to even more in Jane Elliott Against the World, where getting loud has a surprising amount of nuance in it.”—Moveable Fest ABOUT JANE ELLIOTT AGAINST THE WORLD Famous, or infamous, for her “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes” classroom experiment, Iowa school teacher Jane Elliott has passionately confronted white America with truths it still fights to deny. For over fifty years, her work has brought both accolades and ire, but the film reveals a woman still very much true to her own purpose and surprisingly good humored about the haters. Alternating between fascinating historical footage and Jane’s continuing work to advance the understanding of…

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