Owens Presents 'Persepolis' Film Screening
PERRYSBURG TOWNSHIP, OH – Owens Community College Findlay-area and Toledo-area campuses will celebrate and promote the importance of literacy by inviting area residents to explore life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution of the 1970s as part of a free screening and discussion of the award-winning film “Persepolis”, Feb. 8 and 15.
Presented by the Literacy Committee in conjunction with the academic institution’s college-wide read initiative of the book “Persepolis”, the film will be shown on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. in the Community Education and Wellness Center Room 111 on the Findlay-area Campus. Additionally, a screening of “Persepolis” will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at 2 p.m. in College Hall Room 100 on the Toledo-area Campus. Each screening will be followed by a brief discussion of the film and the literary memoir specific to growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Admission to the events is free and the public is encouraged to attend.
Owens’ Findlay-area Campus is located on Bright Road in Findlay, while the Toledo-area Campus is located on Oregon Road in Perrysburg Township.
Directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, the 96-minute film “Persepolis” details the life and times of a young Marjane “Marji” Satrapi during the 1970s and how her dreams were fulfilled with the hated Shah’s defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Satrapi grows up, she witnesses firsthand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Satrapi dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents decide to send her abroad to Vienna to study and make a better life for herself. However, this change proves to be equally difficult for Satrapi as she finds herself in a different and troubling culture. After returning to her homeland, Satrapi discovers that both she and her country have changed too much and her family now must decide where she truly belongs.
Based on the book “Persepolis”, the film provides insight into the daily life of Iran and how home life and public life contradict each other as a result of repressive regimes. Satrapi’s firsthand accounts allow viewers to embark on a journey inside Iran during a time of political unrest and repression that included the dethroning of emperors and state-sanctioned whippings. Since it was released in 2007, “Persepolis” has garnered critically-acclaimed attention highlighted by an Oscar nomination as Best Animated Feature Film of the Year in 2008. Other honors include receiving the Sutherland Trophy from the British Film Institute in 2007 and a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.
For more information about the film screenings, call (567) 661-2987 or 1-800-GO-OWENS, Ext. 2987.
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