This screening is SOLD OUT.
This screening will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art \ Connecticut (19 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT).
Post-film Q&A with the film's subject, Amy Goodman, and the director, Tia Lessin. Catherine Shen, Host of Where We Live on Connecticut Public Radio.
Seeing this film at MoCA\CT will be a uniquely memorable experience because it resonates with the current exhibition Looking for History (on view through November 15). In recognition of the United States’ 250th anniversary in 2026, the exhibition invites visitors into distinct yet interconnected conversations about our nation’s past, present, and potential future.
Synopsis: New York-based independent investigative journalist Amy Goodman has been reporting from hotspots around the world for decades: from East Timor to Morocco, Nigeria, and Gaza, and closer to home during 9/11 and the Iraq War. Goodman and a small group of colleagues present the daily online, TV, and radio news program Democracy Now!, which has been on the air since 1996 with no government funding, thanks to contributions from donors, foundations, and news consumers.
Amy Goodman is a broadcast journalist from America, who has given speeches on media coverage, among other things. Goodman is also an investigative reporter and an author. Goodman hosts an independent news program called 'Democracy Now!,' which is broadcast on the radio, the Internet and television. Goodman received a degree in anthropology from Radcliffe College. She also spent a year studying at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor. Goodman has covered well known world events such as the East Timor independence movement. Goodman founded Democracy Now! back in 1996. At the 2008 Republican National Convention, Goodman was arrested for covering protests of the RNC. This resulted in her suing the Minneapolis police department. She was offered a hefty settlement, and the police department was further educated about First Amendment rights.
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Tia Lessin is the director and producer, with Carl Deal, of Citizen Koch and Trouble the Water--winner of the 2008 Gotham Independent Film Award and the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. She was a co-producer of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or, Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine, and Capitalism: A Love Story. In television, Tia line produced Martin Scorsese's Emmy and Grammy-winning film No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. She directed and produced Behind the Labels for which she received the Sidney Hillman Award for Broadcast Journalism. Her work as producer of the Bravo series The Awful Truth earned her two Emmy nominations, one arrest and a lifetime ban from Disney World. Tia is the recipient of the L'Oréal Paris/Women in Film's Women of Worth Vision Award, the Harry Chapin Media Award for Film, and the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Human Rights Award. Her work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation, Ford Foundation's JustFilms, the Open Society Institute, the Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and Fund, The Bertha Foundation and The Fledgling Fund.
Catherine Shen is the Host of Connecticut Public’s morning talk show and podcast, Where We Live. Catherine and the WWL team focus on going beyond the headlines to bring in meaningful conversations that put Connecticut in context. Before her current position, Catherine was Connecticut Public’s education reporter for just over a year. She covered a variety of stories like student mental health, childcare shortages, and teacher burnout. She joined Connecticut Public's newsroom in 2021. The Los Angeles native came to CT Public after a decade of print and digital reporting across the country. She started her journalism career in the Los Angeles fashion scene. While that was an exciting time, Catherine ultimately needed to get back to her news roots. She was soon traipsing all across California’s Central Coast as a freelance news reporter for several newspapers, where she broke stories about local government, law enforcement, and education. She also covered crime, healthcare, business, as well as arts and culture. After finding herself on the East Coast, she continued reporting in New Jersey, covering a mix of academic news, nonprofit projects, and human feature stories both off and on camera. Then she moved to Connecticut and started reporting for the New Britain Herald, where she won several Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists awards for her coverage on the COVID-19 pandemic, social justice movements, and police accountability. Catherine received an undergraduate degree in broadcast journalism from Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow College of Communication. While an undergraduate student, she was a reporter for the university newspaper and its student-run television station, Cable 8 News. She’s also a proud member of the Asian American Journalism Society. In her downtime, she tries her best to catch up on her reading list but often fails due to a variety of distractions, including reorganizing her bookshelves, scavenging library book sales, and thinking about reading books.
Avon on Tour is presented by The First Bank of Greenwich and sponsored by the Connecticut Office of the Arts, The John C. Griswold Family Foundation, Stamford Arts & Culture Commission, and Wireless Zone Gives. Additional support is provided by The Bruce Museum, Darien Library, Mill River Park, Ferguson Library, and Stamford Town Center.