Film screening:   {click here for related Master Class on Nov 6}

A Place at the Table
(Kristi Jacobson & Lori Silverbush, 2012, 84 min, USA, in English, Color, Blu-Ray)

-- Q&A to follow w/ director and Duke alumna Kristi Jacobson '93!

50 Million Americans - 1 in 4 children - don't know where their next meal is coming from. A Place at the Table tells the powerful stories of three such Americans, who maintain their dignity even as they struggle just to eat. In a riveting journey that will change forever how you think about the hungry, A Place at the Table shows how the issue could be solved forever, once the American public decides - as they have in the past - that ending hunger is in the best interests of us all.

-- "One of the most important ... and gripping non-fiction films to debut in some time." - Indiewire

-- "It specifically addresses our country's hunger crisis. But it also speaks to larger hungers. Hungers for independence, a dignified life, a better chance for one's children - in short, the American dream." - Time Magazine  

About the filmmaker:
Kristi Jacobson '93 is an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened in theaters across the US and internationally, at festivals including the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals and on networks including HBO, PBS, ESPN, ABC, CBS, A&E, Lifetime and Channel Four (UK). Her films include A Place at the Table (Participant Media/Magnolia Pictures); TOOTS, selected as top documentary of 2007 from The National Board of Re-view; American Standoff produced by two-time Oscar winning filmmaker Barbara Kopple, broadcast on HBO’s award-winning America Undercover series.

Jacobson is a summa cum laude graduate of Duke University, where she majored in sociology – it was the writing of her honors thesis that lead to pursuing a career in documentary film. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television, a two-time Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and 2014 Sundance Institute Catalyst Forum Fellow.

Related Event:

DEMAN WEEKEND - AMI Master Class w/ filmmaker Kristi Jacobson '93 (for students only)
[Smith Warehouse 228, Bay 12] (see: http://tinyurl.com/KristiJacobson-DukeMasterClass)

Cost: Free and open to the public

Sponsors: The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Duke Entertainment, Media, and the Arts Network (DEMAN), the Duke Alumni Association, and the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.