EQUITY AND INCLUSION WEEKLY FILM & DISCUSSION

Every Thursday during the Summer, there will be a movie from our Kanopy collection shown in the APEX Center that highlights various Equity and Inclusion topics. Bring your lunch, your laptop, or even your lawn chair to work while you watch. Each movie will be followed by a short discussion. The APEX will be stocked with sodas and popcorn. To add the movie date and time to your calendar, Click the ADD TO CALENDAR button below each movie.

June 1: 12:00 – 2:00

Chronic Illness

Breathe 2017 (1:57 min) When Robin (Andrew Garfield) is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of his wife Diana (Claire Foy) and her twin brothers, Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together — raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients. BREATHE is a heartwarming celebration of love and human possibility.

June 8: 12:00 – 1:30

Framing Agnes 2022 (1:15 min) The pseudonymous Agnes was a pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender health study conducted at UCLA in the 1960s. Her clever use of the study to gain access to gender-affirming healthcare led to her status as a fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history. In this innovative cinematic exercise that blends fiction and nonfiction, director Chase Joynt (No Ordinary Man) uses Agnes’s story, along with others unearthed in long-shelved case files, to widen the frame through which trans history is viewed. This collective reclamation breaks down the myth of isolation among transgender history-makers, breathing new life into a lineage of collaborators and conspirators who have been forgotten for far too long.

June 15: 12:00 – 1:30

The Slanted Screen: Hollywood’s Presentation of Asian Men in Film & TV 2006 (54 min) From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, THE SLANTED SCREEN explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood's imagemaking machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film clips spanning a century.

June 22: 12:00 – 2:00

Incarceration

The Woodsman 2005 (1:27 min) The film stars Kevin Bacon as a convicted child molester who must adjust to life after prison. Its name refers to the woodsman from the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood who kills the wolf to save the titular child. The choices he makes and the discrimination he feels address the ability of one to forgive and heal.

DID YOU KNOW?

June 29: 12:00 – 2:00

The Mask You Live In 2015 (1:31 min)

THE MASK YOU LIVE IN follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, our protagonists confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. These gender stereotypes interconnect with race, class, and circumstance, creating a maze of identity issues boys and young men must navigate to become “real” men. Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it. The Mask You Live In ultimately illustrates how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.

July 13: 12:00 – 2:00

Ethnicity

Up Heartbreak Hill 2012 (1hr 22min)

Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, New Mexico as they navigate their senior year at a reservation high school. As graduation nears, they must decide whether or not to stay in their community-a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their beings-or leave in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere. Largely isolated from mainstream America, they hesitate to separate from their families and traditions, rooted to home in equal parts by love, obligation, and fear. Tribal elders urge members of the younger generation to leave-acquire an education or learn a trade-and return home with the skills to help their people. But, with a poverty rate of 65% and a per capita income under $6,200, Navajo has few prospects. Up Heartbreak Hill is a moving look at a new generation of Americans struggling with what it means to be Native American in the contemporary world.