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2nd Screening - Community Cinema - More than a Month

Presented by Independent Film Society of Colorado

February 11, 2012

In More Than a Month, Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African American filmmaker, is on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. Through this tongue-in-cheek journey, More Than a Month investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America.

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