Lectures and Films

Speaker: Dr. Nathan Rank, Sonoma State University. Presentation: "Is the Insect Apocalypse Real?"

In this lecture, Éloïse Blet, Fulbright French Language Teaching Assistant, from the University of Haute-Bretagne, France speaks on the younger generation striving to make their voices heard.

The award-winning documentary film 4 Wheel Bob tells the story of Bob Coomber, an intrepid adventurer who sets out to be the first wheelchair hiker to cross the 11,845-foot Kearsarge Pass

Social Justice Documentary Series. Told first hand by some of Hollywood’s leading voices behind and in front of the camera.

Speaker: Nigel Poor. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series provides our students with valuable insights and exposure to art professionals and their work.

Directed by the legendary Stanley Donen, who died this year at age 94, Funny Face is one of the most visually dazzling movies of the 1950s, a Paris-set musical featuring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Ast

“Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal wrote and star in this earnest and anguished comedic drama, set in Oakland and centered on black Americans’ mind-bending fear of prejudiced and trigger-happy police o

“Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal wrote and star in this earnest and anguished comedic drama, set in Oakland and centered on black Americans’ mind-bending fear of prejudiced and trigger-happy police o

In 1971, the late, great Albert Finney played Eddie Ginley, a bingo caller in Liverpool who dreams of being a private detective.

Sonoma Film Institute presents: Gumshoe (Albert Finney 1926-2019). In 1971, the late, great Albert Finney played Eddie Ginley, a bingo caller in Liverpool who dreams of being a pri