Join Kansas City Women in Film & TV and Film Society KC on Tuesday, September 29th at the Glenwood Arts Theater for a special screening of HE NAMED ME MALALA, an intimate portrait of Malala Yousafzai, who was wounded when Taliban gunmen opened fire on her and her friends’ school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley.

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The then 15-year-old teenager, who had been targeted for speaking out on behalf of girls’ education in her region of Swat Valley in Pakistan, was shot in the head, sparking international media outrage. An educational activist in Pakistan, Yousafzai has since emerged as a leading campaigner for the rights of children worldwide and in December 2014, became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

The film opens in theatres everywhere on October 9th. Davis Guggenheim, director of An Inconvenient Turth, It Might Get Loud and Waiting for 'Superman', brings you this one of a kind story.

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Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
Screenplay by: Davis Guggenheim
Produced by: Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald
Cast: Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai

The Friends of the Tivoli and the Film Society KC invite you to a big-screen showing of ROBERT ALTMAN'S "Come Back to the Five & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean" on July 23rd at 7PM.

Kansas City native Mark Patton, who was cast by legendary director Robert Altman in the pivotal, sole, male role in this inventive period drama, will be in attendance. Film Society KC President, Justin Gardner will join Patton offering introductory remarks and participating in the audience Q&A at both screenings.

The film concerns a group of women who reunite in their hometown of McCarthy, Texas in 1975 to hold a twenty-year reunion of their James Dean fan club. In 1955, they were an excited group of high school graduates who eagerly anticipated their hero's arrival in a nearby town to film GIANT. As the story unfolds, the friends--Mona (Sandy Dennis), Sissy (Cher), Stella Mae (Kathy Bates), Edna Louise (Marta Heflin), and Juanita (Sudie Bond) reminisce fondly about the past, but when a mysterious woman arrives (Karen Black), a series of shocking revelations threatens to ruin the reunion. The actresses imbue their characters with a tragic honesty that makes their eventual confessions all the more heartbreaking and poignant (notably, Dennis's troubled Mona).]

Altman, who directed the play both on and off Broadway before deciding to film it, employs visual dissolves, and mirrors to add a cinematic layering to the production. The result is a powerful, sobering portrait of a group of women who allowed deception to take control of their lives.

Click this link to RSVP on Facebook and find tickets, which are only $7 for Film Society KC members! Discount is only available at the door.