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Upcoming Screenings of Arts Engine's Election Day!

Dear friends,

January is an exciting month for Election Day, with premieres in Chicago and Washington, DC! Read on for updated information about these events and news of a screening at the Peabody Essex Museum for those of you in the Boston-area.

Election Day at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA

As part of the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival, Election Day will screen at the Peabody Essex Museum this month.

WHEN: Saturday, January 19 @ 3pm
WHERE: Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA

Screenings are included in the price of admission to the museum that day. For more information, visit the museum's website.

Museum Admission

Adults $15, Seniors $13, Students $11
Youth (16 and under) and Salem, Mass. residents admitted free.

Election Day in Chicago

Our beloved Chicago (one-time home to Katy, current home to Maggie) is featured prominently in Election Day. Jim Fuchs, underdog Republican Committeeman on the city’s north side, traipses from one polling place to the next over the course of the day and the film, sniffing out electoral shenanigans in every nook and cranny of his ward. Given all of this, and the fact that Chicago is such a great political town, our premiere there has been highly anticipated. We are thrilled to be part of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s month of documentary premieres, Stranger Than Fiction. Please join us!

WHEN: Friday, January 25 @ 8pm (Buy tickets) & Monday, January 28 @ 6pm (Buy tickets)
WHERE: Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State Street
WHAT: These two screenings of Election Day are part of the Stranger than Fiction series at the GSFC. Screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions with Director Katy Chevigny and Producer Maggie Bowman.

Tickets are also available by calling Ticketmaster at 312.575.8000.

Election Day in Washington, DC

Arts Engine's Big Mouth Films is teaming up with the Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University, in partnership with AU's Center for Social Media, to host this half-day symposium:

How Ready Are We for 2008?: Spotlight on U.S. Elections

Inaccurate voting lists, uncounted provisional ballots, electronic voting machines that jam without a paper trail—all these and more have eroded voter confidence in the competence and fairness of America's electoral process. The question remains: How ready are we for the 2008 presidential election?

The symposium will feature a panel discussion of leading election experts followed by a screening of Election Day. The half-day event will look at where we were in 2004, where we are now, and where we still need to go to ensure that U.S. elections are fair, accurate and transparent.

WHEN: Thursday, January 31st

Schedule:

4-5:30pm - Panel discussion assessing the current state of election administration in the U.S. Panelists include Katy Chevigny (director, Election Day), Spencer Overton (Law Professor, George Washington University, and former member of the Carter-Baker Commission on Electoral Reform), Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin and members of Congress and the Election Assistance Commission (TBD).

5:30-6:30pm - Reception

7-9pm - Screening of Election Day

WHERE: American University Campus

Panel Discussion and Reception: Butler Board Room, Butler Pavilion- Main Campus (4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW)

Film Screening: Abramson Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center (directly across from Main Campus)

Campus maps and directions

http://www.american.edu/maps/index.html

Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi

WHEN: Friday, February 8 @ 1:15pm
WHERE: Malco Oxford Studio Cinema, 1111 Jackson Avenue West, Oxford, MS

For tickets call 662.236.6429 or email info@oxfordfilmfest.com.

For more information about the festival, click here.

About The Film:

Arts Engine presents a Big Mouth Film
Election Day

An experiment in cinema vÉritÉ filmmaking, Election Day was shot in a single day—November 2, 2004—by over a dozen camera crews around the United States. The stars of this documentary are a lively and eclectic group of citizens from the Florida panhandle to the South Dakota plains—making the most of their right to vote. Thom Powers, programmer of IFC's Stranger Than Fiction Series, praises Election Day for "really capturing a day in the life of the American electoral process at the federal level. It really crosses all the political, racial, class, and economic lines."

Directed by Katy Chevigny
Produced by Maggie Bowman & Dallas Brennan Rexer
Edited by Penelope Falk
Original Music by John Kimbrough
Election Day is a co-production of Arts Engine, Inc. and ITVS with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Thanks!

Katy, Maggie, & Dallas

http://electiondaythemovie.com

Starts	01/10/2008
Ends	01/25/2008
Issues	Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, Youth, Voting/Elections, African-American, Arab-American, Indigenous Peoples
Homepage	www.electiondaythemovie.com
Contact	electiondaythemovie@gmail.com