Betting on Zero (free event -- film screening + Q&A with director)

We'll meet at 7:00pm inside right by the entrance to the auditorium and then will go inside and sit together. At 7:30pm the film will be introduced by Shawn Shimpach. The movie is 104min. It is followed by a Q&A with the director! If you stay for the Q&A we can also chat briefly within our group after that or if there is enough interest we could discuss further at a bar/restaurant like High Horse in Amherst.

Writer-director Ted Braun’s critically acclaimed first feature film, Darfur Now, presented on our campus in 2007, won the NAACP Image Award for best documentary of 2007. Continuing his work in non-fiction across documentary and scripted forms with a focus on global conflict, Betting On Zero explores the battle waged by controversial hedge fund titan Bill Ackman and Latina activist Julie Contreras to expose Herbalife as a massive international pyramid scheme. (Premiere, 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, special jury mention, World Documentary Competition). Ted Braun (Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics, USC School of Cinematic Arts).

While there might be a parking spot available at the metered spaces next to the building, in the “horse shoe” (Haigis Mall) in front of the Fine Arts Center, usually the best bet is Robsham Visitors Parking Lot across Massachusetts Ave.
https://umts.github.io/ParkingMap/

This meetup is cross-posted with Western MA Filmmakers Group.