“We wanted to do something exciting for globally engaged citizens in the Denver area and bring to light the kinds of issues the United Nations focuses on,” says Meghan Brenner of the Denver chapter of the UNA.
Films like I Am a Girl, which shares the often tough and frightening life choices young girls around the world must make to survive, and The Pad Piper, about a young inventor who is changing the lives of women in India with breakthrough menstrual-hygiene innovation and education, are just some of the works chosen for the festival. Another film, Duk County, the story of doctors providing life-saving eye care in southern Sudan, will bring Colorado filmmaker Jordan Campbell to the stage for an after-film conversation.
The UNA Traveling Film Festival opens today at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue, with an 11 a.m. screening of The E-Waste Tragedy and a post-film discussion. Tickets are $10 per film or $40 for the day. For more information and a full list of films included, visit unadenver.org.
Sun., Jan. 11, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., 2015