November Film Series – Smoke Signals

Wednesday, November 20th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Victor’s father left when he was a boy, and he now learns that his father just died, and his mother sends him to collect the ashes. He is only able to make the trip with Thomas’ help, however, and there is a condition that is difficult for him to accept: Victor must swallow his pride and take Thomas with him.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 1998
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 29 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
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November Film Series – Drunktown’s Finest

Wednesday, November 13th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

Three young Native Americans – an adopted Christian girl, a rebellious father-to-be, and a promiscuous transsexual – strive to escape the hardships of life on an Indian reservation.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2014
  • Rating: NR
  • Duration: 1 hr. 35 mins.
  • Genre: Drama
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November Film Series – Remember the Titans

Wednesday, November 6th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2000
  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 53 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
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October Film Series – Once Were Warriors

Wednesday, October 23rd at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 1994
  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 42 mins.
  • Genre: Crime, Drama
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October Film Series – Stand & Deliver

Wednesday, October 9th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

The story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout prone students to learn calculus.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 1988
  • Rating: PG
  • Duration: 1 hr. 43 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
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October Film Series – Cesar Chavez

Wednesday, October 2nd at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2014
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 42 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama
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First Amendment Film Festival

American Library Association provided graphic. 2019.

Film and video productions can vividly depict the impact of censorship on individuals and society. A First Amendment film festival for Banned Books Week will be hosted in the Meeting Room of the Main Library.

Join us for film screenings based on book titles that have been censored.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.


Film Screenings:

Footloose (2011)

Monday, September 23rd
at 5:30 p.m.

City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 53 mins.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

View trailer HERE

Color Purple (1985)

Tuesday, September 24th
at 5:30 p.m.

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 2 hrs. 34 mins.
  • Genre: Drama

View trailer HERE


Bless Me Ultima (2012)

Wednesday, September 25th
at 5:30 p.m.

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.

  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 46 mins.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, History

View trailer HERE

Precious (2009)

Thursday, September 26th
at 5:30 p.m.

In New York City’s Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.

  • Rating: R
  • Duration: 1 hr. 50 mins.
  • Genre: Drama

View trailer HERE


Importance of celebrating Banned Books Week:

Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. The OIF tracked 347 challenges to library, school and university materials and services. Overall, 483 books were challenged or banned in 2018.

A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials.

Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

Traditionally the ALA releases a Top Ten List within the State of America’s Libraries Report each April. This year 11 books were selected, since two titles were tied for the final position on the list, and both books were burned by a religious activist to protest a Pride event.

Email bmartin@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.

September Film Series – Every Day

Wednesday, September 11th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

A shy teenager falls for a spirit who wakes up in the body of a different person every morning.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2018
  • Rating: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 37 mins.
  • Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
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September Film Series – Beyond the Lights

Wednesday, September 4th at 5:30 p.m.

Join us at the Main Library for a FREE film screening. Free popcorn and drinks are provided.

Synopsis:

The pressures of fame have superstar singer Noni on the edge, until she meets Kaz, a young cop who works to help her find the courage to develop her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be.

About the Film:
  • Year Released: 2014
  • Rated: PG-13
  • Duration: 1 hr. 56 mins.
  • Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
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