Panhandle PBS is collaborating on two film screenings in the month of March.
First, Panhandle PBS will partner with Amarillo College’s Matney Mass Media Program, The Ranger and FM90 to share a free Indie Lens Pop-Up screening of “Writing with Fire” on Tuesday, March 8 at 11:45 a.m. in the Panhandle PBS studios for Amarillo College students, faculty, staff and the public. “Writing with Fire” has been nominated for a 2022 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
“Writing with Fire” is a 2021 documentary film by filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh set in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In a media landscape dominated by men, the women journalists of India’s all-female Khabar Lahariya (“News Wave”) newspaper risk it all, including their own safety, to cover the country’s political, social and local news from a women-powered perspective. From underground network to independent media empire – now with 10 million views on their YouTube site – they defy the odds to redefine power.
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and Panhandle PBS will share a gallery reception, film screening and panel discussion on the Hereford POW Camp of World War II on Thursday, March 31 at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2503 4th Ave. in Canyon. The event will start at 6:00 p.m. in the Alexander Gallery for a viewing of the exhibition “Paradox in a POW Camp,” a 6:30 p.m. film screening in the Hazlewood Lecture Hall, followed by a 7:00 p.m. panel discussion.
The 2008 Panhandle PBS-produced film, “A Cathedral in the Desert: The POWs of Hereford Camp 31,” shares the stories of the Italian POW camp outside of Hereford, where over 4,000 Italian soldiers were housed from 1942 through 1946. The film explores how a group of prisoners brought their artistic talents to St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Umbarger, painting murals and sculpting figures while enjoying country cooking from the congregants.
For more information on these events, call (806)371-5479.
