This comes from Rebecca Huntington at the Teton County Public Library in Jackson:
Forget the polling data and hyperventilating pundits. What's the real-life experience of voters in America? How do local elections here differ from campaigns in countries such as Japan?
Find answers to these questions and more as Teton County Library offers three provocative views on elections during this year's campaign season as part of the library's new, monthly Documentary Film Club. The new club will feature films produced as part of the popular Point of View (P.O.V.) series, which is aired on PBS stations nationwide. The Film Club is free and open to the public. All films will be screened at 7 p.m. in the Library's Ordway Auditorium.
Here are the offerings:
Wed. Sept. 10: Campaign. What do you do when you find out that an old college friend has been selected by Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to run for a key city council seat? If you're Kazuhiro Soda, you grab your camera and make a film. Find out why the ruling party chose Soda's friend, and what it means for local Japanese politics.
Wed. Oct. 15: Election Day. Get personal. This film combines 11 election-day stories into one narrative. It was shot simultaneously on Nov. 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight. Follow voters in Chicago; on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation; from small-town Stockholm, Wisconsin (population 97) -- and the democratic values they bring to elections.
Thur. Nov. 13: Georgie Girl. This film chronicles a woman's journey from boy to diva to member of the New Zealand Parliament. Quite possibly the world's first transsexual person to be openly elected to office, Georgina Beyer actively serves a rural district, which is also New Zealand's largest district.
Like the weather, documentary themes for the library's new film club will change with the seasons. To keep up on the latest topics, subscribe to the library's e-calendar by sending a message to communications@tclib.org or stop by our site at http://www.tclib.org/.
For information about the Monthly Documentary Film Club, call the Adult Humanities Coordinator at 307-733-2164 ext. 135. This program is sponsored by Teton County Library Foundation.
