COMMUNITY CINEMA

Free Screening at TTU's Backdoor Playhouse: WCTE's Community Cinema film for November is Solar Mamas by Jehane Noujaim.**
India’s Barefoot College, founded by Bunker Roy, provides impoverished rural women with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. Rafea, a 30-year-old Jordanian mother of four, is traveling outside of her village for the first time to attend Barefoot’s solar engineering program. Once there, she will join women from Guatemala, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Colombia in learning concrete skills to change their communities. Directed by Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief; produced by Mette Heide.

**A Women and Girls Lead Film

Watch The Sky's the Limit for the Women of Barefoot College on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.