Please join us at Champlain College Auditorium for the first film in our September Screening Series. The Committee on Temporary Shelter (COTS) is partnering with Champlain College to bring the community 3 documentary films discussing poverty, hunger, and homelessness in the community.

The first film we're screening is Inocente (www.inocentedoc.com), 2013 Academy Award Winner in Best Documentary Short Subject. Join us on September 10th at 6:30 for this community screening! Walk-ins welcome!

Each film will be followed by a community discussion about the issues each film explores. We hope you'll join us in thinking about how we can address these kinds of issues in our own community! Admission and concession by donation.

Inocente Film Synopsis: A personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist’s determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. ‘Inocente’ is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams.

For more details, visit: www.cotsonline.org.