See What’s Out There

A good friend of See3 and a terrific filmmaker, Macky Alston, has made a film called Hard Road Home. This documentary looks at a program in Harlem of ex-cons, helping other ex-cons stay out of prison. If you can catch it on PBS, please do. If not, go ahead and buy the DVD — you will be glad you did.

Here’s more information.

Dear Friends of Auburn Media:

On behalf of Macky Alston, GreenHouse Pictures, and all of us at Auburn Media, it’s my pleasure to invite you to watch Macky’s feature documentary Hard Road Home TONIGHT on WNET Channel 13 on PBS’ series Independent Lens. The broadcast will begin after midnight tonight, at 12:30 A.M. Saturday morning, March 29, 2008. Don’t forget to set your TIVOs and VCRs for this wee-hours broadcast!

Visit the Independent Lens Web site for more local PBS listings.

Also: Hard Road Home is now available for individual and institutional purchase. To get your copy, please visit the film’s Web site.

As many of you know, Hard Road Home is one of a series of documentary films around which Auburn Media has built campaigns to help faith communities of all traditions get involved and make a difference. To learn more about Auburn Media’s work with Hard Road Home and faith communities, please contact me directly or visit our Web site.

More news: Hard Road Home is the inspiration for Becoming The Promised Land: Faith, Community, And The Prison Reentry Population, a joint Auburn/Union/New York Theological Seminary/NY Presbytery conference for clergy and community leaders which will explore the biblical and theological foundations and contexts for work with and among the prison reentry population. The conference, to be held June 12-13, 2008 at Union Theological Seminary, will consider ways in which the church and church‐related institutions, as well as other communities and organizations, can and do work with formerly incarcerated women and men to bring about God’s healing and wholeness. Of course the film will screen at the conference as well! For more information on this event, please visit www.auburnsem.org.

We hope this notice finds you very well. If you would like more information on any of the above or wish to make direct contact please do not hesitate to do so.

With our best wishes,

Josh Olesker

Joshua Olesker
Program Manager - Outreach
AUBURN MEDIA

jco[at]auburnsem[dot]org

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