Beyond Boundaries
Thursday February 10 at 7:00 p.m.:
The Neutral Ground: A Story about Sore Losers, 2021
Director: CJ Hunt
The Neutral Ground is a documentary about memory, monuments and how to break up with the Confederacy. The film chronicles New Orleans' fight over monuments and America's troubled romance with the Lost Cause. In 2015, director CJ Hunt was filming the New Orleans City Council's vote to remove four confederate monuments. But when that removal was halted by death threats, CJ set out to understand why a losing army from 1865 still holds so much power in America.
A comedian and filmmaker living in NYC, CJ Hunt is currently a field producer on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
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Beyond Boundaries Screening & Discussion Series is a distinctive program at Buffalo State that has been running since 2014. This annual, six-part film series is organized around categories of diversity including, but not limited to race, gender, class, sexuality, and abilities, with an emphasis on intersectionality. It creates an opportunity for open dialogue on social justice issues among college students, staff, faculty and members of the greater Western New York community.
Beyond Boundaries is sponsored by the Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, the Communication Department, and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. All screenings are held in Burchfield Penney Art Center and are free and open to the public.