Film Screening: Dear White People

Thursday, February 5, 2015 8:00 PM EST
Johnson Center Cinema

 

Film screening will be followed by a conversation with Gayle Wald and Mark Hopson.

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival's Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. Writer and director Justin Simien follows a group of African American students as they navigate campus life and racial politics at a predominantly white college in a sharp and funny feature film debut that earned him a spot on Variety's 2014 list of "10 Directors to Watch."

Sponsored by Film & Media Studies, African & African American Studies, Film & Video Studies, SI Films, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Education, English, and Women & Gender Studies..