Gus Van Sant Presents: A Benefit For Outside In, Private Screening of PROMISED LAND, General Admission Ticket
December 16, 2012
7:31 PM
Doors Open: 6:31 PM
Doors Open: 6:31 PM
Outside In is thrilled to announce that award winning filmmaker, Gus Van Sant, will provide this agency with a benefit screening of his latest film Promised Land. Outside In provides medical care as well as other services for homeless youth. The Portland event will raise money for - and awareness of - the needs of these clients.
The screening will be held at 7:30 p.m. December 16 at McMenamins Bagdad Theater, 3702 SE Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland. A private reception with Gus Van Sant will be held prior to the screening for sponsors. If you are interested in the reception please contact bradb@outsidein.org. Tickets to the reception are $500.
Promised Land unfolds as Steve (Academy Award winner Matt Damon) has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner, Sue Thomason (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand). The town has been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, and the two consummate sales executives see McKinley’s citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer – for drilling rights to their properties – as much-needed relief. Complication arise professionally, by calls for community-wide consideration of the offer by respected schoolteacher Frank Yates (Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook) and personally by Steve’s encounter with Alice (Rosemarie DeWitt). With the arrival of a slick environmentalist activist Dustin Noble (John Krasinski), the personal and professional stakes rise to the boiling point.
Promised Land keenly distills questions of how American values have evolved. These explorations come in part through a small town’s decisions when a natural gas company seeks to extract gas from shale rock formations through the process known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Minors permitted with guardian.
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