Parents, teens, advocates and providers share their personal stories about the impact on their lives because of a fragmented system for children’s mental health care. While the documentary is set in Connecticut, this is a national crisis and one we experience first-hand in our community.  Kids spending night after night in the emergency room because of the lack of psychiatric beds in the state; waits to get an appointment for services; and a shortage of child psychiatrists.  All of this – combined with the raw emotion of accepting the fact that their child is likely facing a lifetime of medication and therapy.  This film and the panel that will follow will help us explore the state of children’s mental health care in the Capital region. 

Please Join us for a Post Screening Panel Discussion

5:30 Reception
6:15 Welcome and Film
7:15 Panel Discussion

Tickets: $10

In the third installment of this new series, RRT has partnered with Shaheen & Gordon to bring to the RRT audience a real life story played out on the big screen with THE DEPARTED. Martin Scorsese’s storytelling coupled with a pre-screening conversation with:

• Shaheen & Gordon attorneys Steve Gordon and Bill Christie who brought lawsuits against the FBI seeking justice and compensation for families whose loved ones were brutally murdered by Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi
• Boston Globe journalists, Shelley Murphy and Kevin Cullen, whose book Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice was recently published.

Join us for a pre-screening reception in support of Red River Theatres many community programs and initiatives. There will also be opportunity to purchase a copy of Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice and have it signed by authors, Shelley Murphy and Kevin Cullen.

This special book-signing is brought to you in partnership with Concord’s independent bookstore Gibson’s Bookstore.

$40 – Reception and Discussion/Screening
5:15 PM - Reception (includes light appetizers)
6:00 PM - Pre-Screening Q&A & Screening

$15 - Discussion/Screening only 6:00 PM

“Cops or Criminals. When you’re facing a loaded gun what’s the difference?”

 This special event is sponsored by:

(PG) 2012, 84 MINS

The film A Place at the Table examines hunger in America through the stories of three people struggling to put food on the table for their families every day.  The movie emphasizes the serious economic, social, and cultural. Implications hunger poses to our nation.

Can America end hunger?

Stay for our post-film discussion with:

• Representative Ann McLane Kuster
• Melanie Gosselin from the NH Food Bank
• Joanne Burke from UNH College of Life Sciences & Agriculture; The UNH Sustainability Institute

Invited guests include:
Senator Kelly Ayotte
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Representative Anne Kuster

 Sponsored by:

The Children’s Alliance of NH is a statewide, researched based advocacy organization promoting policies and practices that enable all children to lead healthy and productive lives and to reach their full potential. Building on the Children’s Alliance 25 years of convening partners, in 2010 we formed NH Hunger Solutions that developed and is implementing the NH Roadmap to End Childhood Hunger. 

NOT MY LIFE

Not My Life is the first film to comprehensively depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale. Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, and child soldiering.

Discussion following the film with Assistant US Attorney Mark Zuckerman & Jennifer Durant, Public Policy Specialist of NH Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence

MAY 21, 7:00 -FREE, ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED

SALAAM DUNK

Two years ago, most of the women on the basketball team at the American University of Iraq – Sulaimani (AUIS) had never been running before. Many had never played sports. None had ever been on a team with other women. They came from all corners of Iraq to attend this prestigious school, but many cannot tell family back home they go to an “American” university. 

Through traditional interviews and private confessional video diaries, Salaam Dunk follows the ethnically diverse AUIS women’s basketball team as they discover what it means to be athletes. From the joy of their first win to the pain of losing the coach who started their team, the film gives a glimpse into an Iraq we don’t see on the news.

Discussion following the film with Catherine Reilly, Rubia and Corri Wilson, Sports Management Lecturer at Southern New Hampshire University

Komona (Rachel Mwanza) is only 12 years old when she is kidnapped by rebel soldiers and enslaved to a life of guerrilla warfare in the African jungle. Forced to commit unspeakable acts of brutality, she finds hope for survival in protective, ghost-like visions (inspiring a rebel chief to anoint her “War Witch”), and in a tender relationship with a fellow soldier named Magician (Serge Kanyinda). Together, they manage to escape the rebels’ clutches, and a normal life finally seems within reach. But after their freedom proves short-lived, Komona realizes she must find a way to bury the ghosts of her past.

Discussion following the film with Dina Solomon, 2nd Chance Africa.

JULY 16, 7:00 FREE- ADVANCED REGISTRATION REQUIRED

 2013, 86 MINS

For years people saw tattoos as a sign of rebellion. A middle finger salute to the rest of the world. Outlaw bikers got tattoos. Sailors on leave in Singapore got tattoos. Lifers in the joint got tattoos. But now in the United States one out of every three adults under forty has a tattoo! So what happened? How did tattoo go from something that was put on you to an expression that comes from within you? Tattoo Nation tells the story of a few people who helped transform the world of tattoo, and the way we think about tattoos, forever. This is the true story of the ink revolution.

Join us on June 12th for a special screening and post film discussion with:
Doug Mendoza, Bona Fide Tattoo and
Sean Ambrose, Arrows & Embers Tattoo

(NR) 2012, 45 MINS

The Woodstock Lumber Mill, of Woodstock, New Hampshire, was built along the Pemigewasset River in 1907 and operated until 1913, when it burnt down on August 14th of that year.  In 2011 Brian Bollinger, of Bollinger Edgerly Scale Trains, was contracted to build an HO scale (1:87) replica of this lumber mill for Robert Liljistrand. Robert’s family used to lease land to the Woodstock Lumber Mill back when it was still in operation. Brian teamed up with Jim Harr, of Stella Scale Models, to build this museum quality structure for Bob.

Find out what it was like to log the timbers of the great White Mountains of New Hampshire during the turn of the century in this documentary style video including interviews with Bill Gove – who has published a number of books on logging in the White Mountains, Stuart Wallace – a professor of History at the University of New Hampshire in Manchester, Bill Mellett, a local long time resident of Woodstock and Mike Levesque, a 5th generation logger. Then join Brian and Jim to see how one of these long lost lumber mills was painstakingly recreated in miniature form.