HumanDocs Film Series kicks off with "Welcome to Leith," Wednesday, Sept. 23
Lacey Klotz |
Lipscomb University’s annual HumanDocs Film Series kicks off the 2015-16 season with the social documentary “Welcome to Leith,” screening at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, in Shamblin Theatre. The film is free and open to the public.
There will be a panel discussion after the film featuring Michelle Steele, Nelson & Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership; Neal Allison, Lipscomb Honors College, and Susan Haynes, Department of History, Politics and Philosophy.
“Welcome to Leith” documents the attempt by white supremacist Craig Cobb to take over the North Dakota town of Leith, population 24 people. As Cobb acquires property and invites other extremists to join him, tensions escalate, with the neighbors themselves employing questionable means to rid their town of its newly arrived but unwanted residents.
As the Sundance website observed, "The unsettling underpinning of ‘Welcome to Leith’ is how we wrestle with our democratic principles when they're pushed to the limit."
HumanDocs is a series of social-justice documentaries at Lipscomb University. The series emerged from the desire of the university's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to develop students personally, encourage lifelong learning and inspire service in a changing world.
The HumanDocs Film series is presented in partnership with the Nashville Film Festival and Nashville Public Television's Indie Lens Pop-Up program, as well as the Lipscomb Honors College. A special partnership with Lipscomb's Nelson & Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership has made possible the screening of “Welcome to Leith.”
HumanDocs will continue its series with "Merchants of Doubt," in a special partnership with Lipscomb's Institute for Sustainable Practice, Wednesday, Oct. 28.
For more information on this event, contact Ted Parks at ted.parks [at] lipscomb.edu or at 615.966.6616.