[ PAST EVENT ] Hollywoodgate // Q&A w/ Lisa Freeman

Tickets $15. When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.

After the film, there will be a Q&A with Lisa Freeman, who served in the US Aid Office of Transition Initiatives, working on building resilience in local communities in the face of the Taliban threat.

Tickets $15. When the United States withdrew from its twenty-year “forever war” in Afghanistan, the Taliban retook control of the ravaged country and immediately found an American base loaded with weaponry—a portion of the over $7 billion in U.S. armaments still in the country. Unprecedented and audacious, director Ibrahim Nash’at’s Hollywoodgate spends a year inside Afghanistan following the Taliban as they take possession of the cache America left behind—and transform from a fundamentalist militia into a heavily armed military regime.
After the film, there will be a Q&A with Lisa Freeman, who served in the US Aid Office of Transition Initiatives, working on building resilience in local communities in the face of the Taliban threat.

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SUMMER OF ’99

Welcome to the SUMMER OF ’99, before smartphones, social media, and streaming. Pre-doom scroll, bed rot, and AI ubiquity. 1999 wasn’t just another year—it was THE year. The one that redefined cinema.
 
It was a launching pad for today’s biggest filmmakers, a breakout year for indie film, and a cultural turning point that echoes today. Think: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother, Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman’s Being John Malkovich. The list goes on and on.
 
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