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Current Workshops:

1. Experiential Support Group for survivors of sexual violence.

       Contact Annmarie at 377-1010 or

       annmarie.fitzpatrick@silentnomore.org for more information.

2.Free Summer Movie Series

Sexual Assault Crisis and Support Center is offering an 8-week movie series in Waterville.  Movies featured are for mature audiences and address issues such as sexual assault, harassment, and childhood sexual abuse.  After each viewing, there will be a short discussion that participants are invited to attend. 

 

The series will be held on Wednesday nights at 6:00pm beginning June 2^nd.

 

For more information or to sign-up,Contact Kathleen Paradis at 660-6277 or kathleen.paradis@silentnomore.org\

 

See below for details of the Summer Movie Series

TRIGGER WARNING… these movies and their trailers may be extremely triggering!

June 2^nd - Searching for Angela Shelton

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCc0gMc2iZ4&feature=related

In the uplifting and multiple award-winning documentary, Searching for Angela Shelton, filmmaker Angela Shelton drives around the United States surveying other Angela Sheltons. She discovers that 24 out of the 40 Angela Sheltons she speaks to are survivors of rape, childhood sexual abuse and/or domestic violence. (The number jumped to 28 out of 40 when 4 more Angelas broke their silence after the movie was completed.) On her journey the filmmaker meets an Angela Shelton who tracks sexual predators and lives in the same town as the filmmaker's father, who sexually abused her and her siblings for years.

                                      June 9^th - Crash

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqJvWsOIix4&feature=related

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more…

                        June 16^th - North Country

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkVQm0QPyY

Based on an inspiring real-life event that took place in the 1970s, North Country stars Charlize Theron in another low-glamour but high-impact role as Josey Aimes, one of only a handful of women working in the Minnesota iron mines. Forced to labor under sexist conditions, she and her female colleagues decide to stand up against the unrelenting harassment from their male counterparts. Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek and Woody Harrelson co-star.

                            June 23 - Monster

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq70brIQP40

Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron) in an Oscar-winning performance) faced difficult odds early in life, abusing drugs and becoming a prostitute (and pregnant) by the age of 13. Wuornos moved from Michigan to Florida where she continued to ply her "trade,"

specializing in a clientele consisting mainly of truck drivers. It was during that time that she began murdering any "John" who tried to rape her. Christina Ricci co-stars in this true story.

                              June 30 - Precious

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5FYahzVU44

Viciously abused by her mother (a riveting, Oscar-winning Mo'Nique) and pregnant by her father, Harlem teen Precious Jones (Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe) has an unexpected chance at a different life when she enrolls in an alternative school. Teacher Blu Rain (Paula Patton) encourages her, but Precious must battle unimaginable barriers everywhere in her life. Lee Daniels directs this drama that features appearances by Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz. 

July 7^th – Boys Don’t Cry

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOarssJWHhI

When Teena Brandon (Hilary Swank) moves to a small Nebraska town in search of a new life, she takes the name Brandon Teena, passes herself off as a boy, begins dating a beautiful girl (Chloe Sevigny) and makes friends among the town's redneck men ... until the truth is revealed. Swank's Oscar-winning portrayal of this real-life character illuminates one woman's voyage of self-discovery -- and the tragic events that cut it short.

                         July 14^th – The Butterfly Effect

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5dVQfzjDS4

If you could go back in time and undo a horrible childhood, would you?  This 2004 thriller poses that complex question when college student Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher), who's besieged by tragic memories, discovers a way to alter his past. But if he does, will it make a difference? Amy Smart, Melora Walters and Eric Stoltz also star.

July 21^st – An American Crime

Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FgZx-cF9cg

Based on a story that's too shocking to be true -- but is -- director Tommy O'Haver's grisly drama centers on Indiana housewife and mother Gertrude Baniszewski (Catherine Keener), who imprisons and tortures a 16-year-old girl in the basement. When Gertrude takes in boarder Sylvia Likens (Ellen Page), she has no idea that her life will become a horrific nightmare of her own creation. Bradley Whitford co-stars as a prosecutor in the ensuing trial.