Documentary Mondays: "I'm Carolyn Parker"

 

This event is online and in-person.

Join us every Monday for intriguing and compelling real life stories!

 Join the Pelham Parkway-Van Nest Library for a free screening of “I’m Carolyn Parker”.

Program Description

In 2005, Academy Award®-winning director Jonathan Demme set out to document the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward. When he met Carolyn Parker, what began as a historical documentary morphed into a vibrant character study of the courage and resiliency of this fearless matriarch and civil-rights activist. I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful is Demme’s intimate account of Parker’s five-year crusade to rebuild her beloved neon-green house, her church, her community — and her life.

Directed by Johnathan Demme

Run time: 1 hour 30 minutes

For Teens and Adults

 

This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent non-fiction film series on PBS www.pbs.org/pov.

 

 

 

This film has accessibility assets for hard of hearing, deaf, blind and low-vision viewers via All4Access. Click the All4Access link to learn how to get access. 

Space is Limited So Please Register In Advance.