DocUtah offers free screening of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
DocUtah International Documentary Film Festival, in collaboration with Sundance Institute and the Sundance Summer Film Series, will present a free community screening of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville, this is the story of unlikely television star Mr. Rogers, who changed children’s TV forever, using puppets and play to explore complex social issues such as race, disability, equality, and tragedy and speaking directly to children, who responded enthusiastically. Entertainment magazine called the film “A balm of kindness and empathy in divisive times.” The film will be shown Aug. 24 at the Eccles Fine Arts Center at DSU in St. George and will be followed by a Q&A with producer Nicholas Ma. The screening is free and open to the public.
In “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Morgan Neville looks back on Rogers’s legacy, focusing on his radically kind ideas. While the nation changed around him, Rogers stood firm in his beliefs about the importance of protecting childhood.
Open seating at the Eccles Fine Arts Center is first come, first served. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Eccles Center seats 500.
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