PBS Asian Americans Film Screening: Episode 3
PBS Asian Americans Film Screening: Episode 3
Sat, Apr 22, 2:00 PM
Massillon Museum • Massillon, OH
Free
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Pre-release screening of The Forgotten Dead documentary
By Josh Gippin
When and where
Date and time
June 5, 2020 · 7pm - June 7, 2020 · 7pm EDT
Location
Streamed online from Akron, Ohio
Refund Policy
No Refunds
Description
This is our final push to get The Forgotten Dead over the finish line and your chance to watch it before anyone else! Your $10 ticket gets you access to watch the movie online from the comfort of your home for 48 hours - from Friday, June 5th at 7pm until Sunday, June 7th at 7pm.
Your support will help defray the costs of making our film broadcast-ready, producing a 2-minute movie trailer and 30-second promo - the essential marketing tools we need to push this film out into the world.
Thank you for your support!
Here’s the synopsis:
The Forgotten Dead
"Parts of our past we might rather leave buried."
Today, Schneider Park in Akron, Ohio seems like your typical family-friendly park. Do local residents, who walk their dogs or play sports on the grass there, realize how many bodies - and secrets - are buried beneath their feet? From the mid-19th to early-20th century, this green space was a cemetery of unmarked graves attached to the Summit County Infirmary, which housed poor elderly and disabled people of that era. A local theater troupe of actors with disabilities bring the past into the flesh by reenacting what life would have been like for them back then. The Forgotten Dead strives to memorialize those who were marginalized in life and forgotten in death, by challenging us all to rethink our perceptions of the people around us living today with disabilities.
A documentary film by Joshua Tree Productions, in collaboration with The University of Akron and the Center for Applied Drama & Autism
Your support will help defray the costs of making our film broadcast-ready, producing a 2-minute movie trailer and 30-second promo - the essential marketing tools we need to push this film out into the world.
Thank you for your support!
Here’s the synopsis:
The Forgotten Dead
"Parts of our past we might rather leave buried."
Today, Schneider Park in Akron, Ohio seems like your typical family-friendly park. Do local residents, who walk their dogs or play sports on the grass there, realize how many bodies - and secrets - are buried beneath their feet? From the mid-19th to early-20th century, this green space was a cemetery of unmarked graves attached to the Summit County Infirmary, which housed poor elderly and disabled people of that era. A local theater troupe of actors with disabilities bring the past into the flesh by reenacting what life would have been like for them back then. The Forgotten Dead strives to memorialize those who were marginalized in life and forgotten in death, by challenging us all to rethink our perceptions of the people around us living today with disabilities.
A documentary film by Joshua Tree Productions, in collaboration with The University of Akron and the Center for Applied Drama & Autism
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About the organizer
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Josh GippinJosh Gippin is committed to producing documentaries that help make the world a better place. His films, produced through his company Joshua Tree Productions, have appeared on PBS and in film festivals and conferences around the world.