Screenings
CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS | Santa Fe, NM | May 2026
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | Exeter, NH | May 2026
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Princeton, NJ | April 2026
WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | Lexington, VA | January 2026
McEVANS NEW SCHOOL | Shaw, MS | October 2025
SELMA CINEMA FESTIVAL | Selma, AL | April 2025
SECOND PONCE DE LEON BAPTIST CHURCH | Atlanta, GA | March 2025
CAMBODIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | Phnom Penh | March 2025
DELTA ARTS ALLIANCE | Cleveland, MS | January 2025
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | Lewisburg, PA | January 2025
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER & CAFE | Dallas, TX | December 2024
ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | St. Louis, MO | November 2024
GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | San Jose, CA | November 2024
CINEMA LAB THE PLAYHOUSE | New Canaan, CT | October 2024
TOGETHER FOR HOPE ANNUAL MEETING | Decatur, GA | October 2024
EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY | Emory, VA | September, 2024
TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS | Jackson, MS | September 2024
THE MAX | Meridian, MS | September 2024
LIGHTREEL FILM FESTIVAL | Washington, DC | July 2024
WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL | Union Grove, NC | July 2024
CBF GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Greensboro, NC | June 2024
OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL | Oxford, MS | March 2024
Media & news
Spotlight from The New Canaanite
“New Canaan High School graduate and filmmaker Theo Avgerinos’s documentary, Rising Hope, will premiere Tuesday at the Playhouse on Elm Street. Rising Hope has won multiple awards, including LightReel Film Festival in Washington, D.C., and both Audience Award and Best Mississippi Film at the Oxford Film Festival. It tells a powerful story of resilience and hope in the impoverished Mississippi Delta. Next week’s special screening is presented by Stand Together Against Racism (S.T.A.R).
We put some questions to Avgerinos…”
Spotlight from The Meridian Star
"Rising Hope attributes sweeping Delta poverty to industrial relocation, chronic underfunding of public schools and state policies historically oppressive to Black residents. Testimonials from those interviewed highlight the entwined nature of suffering and hope, such as ‘Everybody I talk to, they want a job. It’s a lie that people don’t want to work.’ Or in another testimony, a resident says, ‘It doesn’t matter where you come from, something beautiful and awesome can happen in your life.”
