PLEASE NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE
MEETING IS MOVED TO THE SEYMOUR CENTER
Theater, Lower Level
Because of the capacity, the number of attendees is no longer limited.
The Documentary Film Group will be gathering one afternoon each month to discuss a documentary film. The documentaries are all available on Netflix unless noted otherwise and participants should watch the documentary selection before coming to the meeting where we will discuss the film.
This month we will not be viewing a film on Netflix. We will meet at the Seymour Center to watch and discuss a film together. Our schedule for the next few months will be available shortly.
THE AUGUST FILM IS "FANTASTIC LIES"
"The Duke lacrosse case would be a comedy of errors if it were funny to destroy the lives of innocent people."
Directed by Marina Zenovich
Run Time - 101Minutes (2016)
"On the evening of March 13, 2006, a fateful party at a house in Durham, N.C. plunged the nation and its media into a frenzy of assumptions, social crusading, and miscarried justice. When the Duke men’s lacrosse team hired two exotic dancers during a night of drinking, one of the dancers accused three team members of a brutal gang rape in the bathroom of a run-down rental house just off of Duke’s tree-lined East Campus.
The story scratched every social-justice itch, and everyone seemed more than happy to scratch away, despite a lack of evidence. A little more than a year after the alleged assault, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper took the unusual step of declaring the three accused men “innocent,” after a “tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations,” and prosecuting Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred and convicted of contempt.
I grew up in Durham, blocks from the rental house in question. I understood the community and the media environment into which this “Molotov cocktail,” as one local columnist called it, had been tossed. I followed the story closely, and still was re-amazed by the many misdeeds in the ESPN 30for30 documentary, “Fantastic Lies,” which aired on the 10-year anniversary of the party.." --- Mary Katharine Ham, The Federalist
Questions: Contact Linda Maitand at lindaemaitland@gmail,com (281-235-9791) or Beth Laughlin at waycoolmrsl@gmail.com (713-503-7763). If you would like to nominate a film for discussion, please send your suggestions to Linda.