A three-part film series aims to inspire, inform and educate Central Texans about topics impacting our community: education, financial stability and Hispanic engagement.

Each event combines a film screening followed by a moderated discussion with community leaders, issue experts and community members. Additionally, opportunities to volunteer in Central Texas around projects that relate to the topics presented in each film will be available at each event.

Attendance is free and open to the public, rsvp requested for each event.

Critical Condition "Hector's Story" | Thursday, March 25, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Alamo Drafthouse South, 1120 South Lamar (map)

Meet Hector Cardenas. He worked his whole life. Then he lost his job, his health insurance ... and his infected foot to diabetes. Now he lives in a hotel and struggles to pay the medical bills. Critical Condition "Hector's Story" captures the harrowing struggles of critically ill Americans who discover that an illness can cost them their jobs, health, home, savings, even their lives.

Hector's battle with diabetes is one that many Latinos know very well. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Mexican Americans are almost twice as likely as non-Hispanics to be diagnosed with diabetes by a physician. Stay after the screening to hear panelists discuss the film and the issues Hispanics other Americans without health insurance live with every day.

Education Screening
It All Adds Up | Thursday, January 28, 2010

It All Adds Up profiles the teachers and students of Wayne State University’s Math Corps, a groundbreaking organization that partners struggling middle and high school students form Detroit’s public schools with collegians, who help teach vital math and life skills the kids need to success. Following the screening, speakers included Dr. Michael Marder, UTeach Science Program at the University of Texas College of Natural Sciences; Clayton Christopher, Founder and CEO of Sweet Leaf Tea and a mentor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Texas; and Liliana Ary, Client Services Director at Univision Radio participated in a discussion moderated by Jason Sabo, Senior Vice President-Public Policy at the United Ways of Texas.

Financial Stability Screening
Frontline: Inside the Meltdown | Thursday, February 25, 2010

How did a series of financial events create the most disruptive economic crisis of the century? Have we learned our lesson? More importantly, can we ever fully recover? FRONTLINE: Inside the Meltdown, is the illuminating and sobering story of the events that would ultimately snowball into a global economic crisis. Following the screening, panelists discussed key questions related to the changing financial services landscape, including the appropriate role of government regulation and the future of consumer protection. Moderated by Suzi Sosa, Economist & Social Entrepreneur.