Olympian weightlifter Cara Heads attended the Capital City Open Weightlifting Championships hosted by the DC Weightlifting Club in April. This was our opportunity to watch some of DC’s women weightlifters compete and promote the Community Cinema presentation of STRONG! Cara appears in STRONG! with weightlifting Bronze Medalist Cheryl Haworth. ITVS Community Cinema [DC] will preview STRONG! Saturday, June 30 at 5 PM at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street, NW). Cara has enjoyed a successful, 18-year career as an Olympic-Style Weightlifter, traveling the world, earning 8 National Championship Titles, 2 American Records, 5 World Team Qualifications, and the highly coveted, athletic title of Olympian. Cara recently relocated to the Washington, DC area, and offers classes in Strength and Conditioning, Personal Training, and Coaching. The DC Weightlifting Club is a community partner for STRONG! STRONG! is also part of the ITVS initiative Women and Girls Lead. Special thanks to Michael Choi of DC Weightlifting Club for hosting us at the competition.
ITVS Community Cinema is very fortunate to have GIVE AN HOUR as a national community partner for the April screenings of “Hell and Back Again.” GIVE AN HOUR is headquartered in the Washington, DC area. Recently the founder and president Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen was named one of TIME Magazine’s Most Influential People. [View her TIME video profile here.]
Joining us for Community Cinema [DC] presentations of “Hell and Back” again are psychologist Dr. Rona M. Fields who has written extensively about and consults on the psychological impact of violence including terrorism; and Judith Bernadi, LCSW, PhD who will share more information about Give an Hour and the services the organization provides.
The following video was produced in 2011 for the Give an Hour National Awakening Campaign for Iraq & Afghanistan veterans. It was produced with their partners at IDEAS Orlando. The campaign asks mental health professionals nationwide to donate an hour of their time each week to provide free mental health services to military personnel and their families.
Washington, DC veterans are also encouraged to contact the DC Mayor’s Office of Veterans Affairs at http://ova.dc.gov.
Special thanks to Eric Cardwell, Dennis Dineen, and Doron Shalvi for bringing audiences a wealth of information about electric and hybrid vehicles including two of the cars featured in “Revenge of the Electric Car” at Community Cinema [DC] screenings at Busboys and Poets and the Washington DC Jewish Community Center in March. Eric, Dennis, and Doron are members of the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, community partner for the “Revenge of the Electric Car” events.
EVA/DC Eric Cardwell (left) has an encyclopedic knowledge about electric vehicles
EVA/DC Dennis Dineen gives a tour of the Chevy
Chevy Volt outside Busboys and Poets
Doron Shalvi pops open the hood on his Nissan Leaf outside the DCJCC
Hell and Back Again, a film by Danfung Dennis will be screened in its entirety for Community Cinema April 21 (5 PM) at Busboys and Poets (14th & V Streets, NW); and April 22 (3 PM) at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center (16th & Q Streets, NW).
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What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home — injured physically and psychologically — and build a life anew? In Hell and Back Again two overlapping narratives are intercut — the life of a Marine at war on the front, and the life of the same Marine in recovery at home — creating both a dreamlike quality and a strikingly realistic depiction of how Marines experience this war.
Each screening will include guest speakers from GIVE AN HOUR, a non-profit organization providing free mental health services to U.S. military personnel and their families affected by the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
