Butte, America
October 2, 2010
Butte, America - 67 minutes
Director: Pamela Roberts
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010
Location: Houston Community College, Spring Branch Campus
Performing Arts Theatre
1010 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N. Houston, TX 77043
Tickets: $10.00 online or $10.00 cash/check at the door ($5.00 for HCC students w/ID)
Ticket price includes free refreshments: soft drinks, water, and popcorn
Pamela Roberts Reception: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Screening Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Q&A: 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Door Prize: A signed DVD of the film
Synopsis:
Butte, America recounts the sometimes glorious, often sorrowful, story of the most lucrative hard rock mining town in United States history, "the Richest Hill on Earth," "the town that plumbed and electrified America," the Pittsburgh of the West. In Butte, the Industrial Revolution collided with the romance of the frontier, corporate capitalism battled organized labor, and human appetite laid waste to land and water, yielding vast fortunes for a few and a tragic environmental legacy for the people left behind.
Those people are the heart of the film–miners, their families, the working class neighborhoods they created amidst danger and hardship. In a copper crucible, they forged a community whose toughness and solidarity speak to what's missing in America today. Butte, America combines historic fact and first-person narrative to bring to life the highly compelling, but largely untold, story of this legendary city.
About The Director
Pamela Roberts came to filmmaking as a social issue medium after graduating with honors from the University of Southern California with a masters degree in social work. She co-founded Rattlesnake Productions, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation dedicated to producing educational film and media projects that provide students, teachers, and the public with a greater appreciation of Western history and culture.
Over the past 24 years Roberts has produced and directed award-winning documentary films and videos for public television and national and international theatrical and video distribution. These include Backbone of the World: the Blackfeet, broadcast nationally on public television and WorldLINK TV; Ishi, the Last Yahi, a one-hour documentary nominated for an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and broadcast nationally on American Experience; and Contrary Warriors: A Story of the Crow Tribe, nationally broadcast on A&E and PBS and winner of the John Grierson Award for Best Film for First Time Director. Roberts recently produced and directed Butte, America. An accompanying multimedia outreach program, About PLACE! (People, Land and Community Engagement), designed to explore Butte’s industrial aftermath, will be distributed to schools in post-industrial communities within the Clark Fork Watershed and Columbia River Basin.
For More Information:
http://butteamericafilm.org/
Sponsored by:
Sponsor to be announced
Underwritten by:
Southwest Airlines (http://www.southwest.com)
Hotel Derek (http://www.hotelderek.com)
H.E.B. (http://www.heb.com)
Houston Community College- Spring Branch Campus (http://northwest.hccs.edu/portal/site/northwest)
absolutely! Magazine (http://www.katyfinder.com/Magazine.aspx)
