Series: Cinematheque
Dates: First Wednesday of the month
September 3, October 1, November 5, February 4, March 4, April 1
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Jonsson Performance Hall

Ticket Prices: Free

The UT Dallas Cinematheque is a collaboration between the School of Arts & Humanities and the Student Union and Activities Advisory Board in association with the non-profit Video Association of Dallas. Each evening will feature a different independent film and be hosted by UT Arlington professor/founder and artistic director of the Dallas Video Festival, Bart Weiss. The events are designed to bring Texas filmmaking and video artists, along with student filmmakers, to the UT Dallas campus for the benefit of the student body. A short question and answer session will follow each film. The Cinematheque will specialize in programming that champions smaller films made with little money without the benefit of large scale marketing campaigns. The monthly Cinematheques could be likened to those rare occasions when a talented musician plays an intimate lounge instead of a sold-out stadium.

September 3 - Shattered Glass

Shattered Glass is a 2003 American film about the fast rise and steep fall of Stephen Glass's journalistic career at the New Republic magazine during the mid-1990s when his serial journalistic fraud was exposed. The film is based on real events and also captures the high-pressure world of national political journalism

October 1 - HAZE
(in the Conference Center)

Documentary concerning the death of Chi Psi pledge Lynn Gordon Bailey, Jr. (Gordie) due to a hazing incident held near CU Boulder. A documentary about the crisis facing America: young people are dying in increasing numbers due to alcohol abuse. A documentary that takes a hard look at lifestyles of young people within America's Universities, Sororities and Fraternities.

November 5 - The Trials of Darryl Hunt

In the summer of 1984, 19-year-old African American Darryl Hunt was arrested for the rape and murder of a white woman, Deborah Sykes, a newspaper copy editor in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Forensic evidence failed to match Hunt to the crime, but he was swiftly convicted by an all-white jury on the basis of an alleged witness' dubious 911 call, and on the testimonies of a Klansman and a cocaine-addicted teenage prostitute. Ten years into a life sentence, Hunt was denied a third trial by the Supreme Court despite DNA evidence that revealed Hunt wasn't Sykes' rapist. He was finally released in 2004, and in February 2007 the City of Winston-Salem gave Hunt a $1.65 million settlement and formally apologized "for all that he has endured and suffered."