EDI Movie Talk Night
Watch an Emmy Winning Acclaimed Film...
Movie Talk
The 2023 Business Week team invites you to join us as we watch the acclaimed documentary The Homestretch: Three Homeless Teenagers Fighting for Their Future.
This Emmy-winning documentary follows three homeless teens as they fight to stay in school, graduate, and build a future. Each of these smart, ambitious teenagers will surprise, inspire, and challenge audiences to rethink stereotypes of homelessness as they work to complete their education while facing the trauma of being alone and abandoned at an early age.
Through haunting images, intimate scenes, and first-person narratives, these teens take us on their journeys of struggle and triumph. As their stories unfold, the film connects us deeply with larger issues of poverty, race, juvenile justice, immigration, foster care, and LGBTQ rights.
Winner of Outstanding Business and Economic Reporting - Long Form at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
"THE HOMESTRETCH invites you to empathize with its subjects, to worry with them, to laugh with them, to worry about them. It's engaging and compelling viewing." - Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
Wednesday | November 2, 2022
Doors open at 6:00 pm | Movie begins at 6:30 pm
The Normal Theater |Uptown Normal
Normal, Illinois
The documentary will be followed by a panel discussion of professionals exchanging their views, how they relate to the documentary, and how this documentary can help us participate in difficult conversations.