Skip to content

Documentary Film Screening: "The Mask You Live In"

Event Details

Date/Time:
Wed, June 10, 2015
06:00PM - 09:00PM
Venue:
Guild Theater
Location:
2828 35th STREET, Sacramento CA 95817
Map address
Registration Period:
04/25/2015-06/11/2015
Price:
$10 per ticket; $8 (ages 16-18)
Contact:
Fadia Desmond, MA '95
916-390-6686

A 2015 Sundance Film Festival premiere, The Mask You Live In was written, directed, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, '96, MBA '01, and follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Pressured by the media, their peer group, and even the adults in their lives, the young men featured in the film confront messages encouraging them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media also weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it.The screening will be followed by a panel style Q & A discussion moderated by Greg Roeszler, director of Playmakers, a local non-profit that provides mentoring, after-school reading programs and free summer football camps to underserved boys from the Sacramento region (please see other details below for a list of the guest panel speakers). The discussion aims to ultimately illustrate how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men.
6:00 pm: Doors open
6:30 pm: Film begins
8:30 pm: Panel-style Q & A Discussion

*The film is recommended for ages 16 and above

Event Links

Event 17939