ALMOST HOME

By Brad Lichtenstein and Lisa Gildehaus
Co-presentation with Wisconsin Public Television

ITVS Community is proud to support ALMOST HOME with a variety of community outreach events and materials, in anticipation of its national broadcast on Independent Lens on February 21, 2005.

SHOW DESCRIPTION:

Shot on location in a nursing home, ALMOST HOME tells the real stories of aging: couples both bonded and divided by disability, children torn between caring for their parents and their children, nursing assistants doing unsavory work for poverty wages, healthy elders fearful of moving to the dreaded nursing home, and a visionary nursing home director committed to changes that would shuck the nursing home stigma and alleviate such dread.

RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:

• Discussion Guide
• Facilitators Guide
• E-postcard
• Event Flyer Template
• Companion website on PBS.org
• Producer's website

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES:

ITVS Community Cinema Screenings:

• Atlanta: TBA
• Boise: TBA
• Chicago: Dec. 8, Chicago Public Library
  email Connie Koch for more info
• Los Angeles: TBA
• Miami: Dec. 10, Miami Beach Cinemtheque
  email Locsi Ferra for info
• Philadelphia: Jan. 24, 6:30 PM, Northeast Regional Library
  Jan. 31, 6 PM, New Courtland Elder Services
  email Cindy Burstein for info
• Phoenix, AZ: ASU Downtown, 502 East Monroe Street
  email Dennis Palmieri for info
• Pocatelo, ID: Nov. 8, Idaho State University
  email Lynn Allen for info
• San Francisco: Dec. 6, San Francisco Public Library
  email Locsi Ferra for info
• Seattle: Dec. 17, Northwest FilmForum
  email Patrick Baroch for info
• Washington DC: TBA