Screenings

UPCOMING SCREENINGS

B.B. KING MUSEUM | Indianola, MS | April 16th, 2026
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Princeton, NJ | April 20th, 2026
CCA | Santa Fe, NM | May 7th, 2026

PREVIOUS SCREENINGS

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | Lexington, VA | January 2026
McEVANS NEW SCHOOL | Shaw, MS | October, 2025
CAMBODIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | Phnom Penh | March 2025
OXFORD FILM FESTIVAL | Oxford, MS | March, 2024
CBF GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Greensboro, NC | June, 2024
WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL | Union Grove, NC | July 2024
LIGHTREEL FILM FESTIVAL | Washington, DC | July 2024
THE MAX | Meridian, MS | September 2024
TWO MISSISSIPPI MUSEUMS | Jackson, MS | September 2024
EMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY | Emory, VA | September, 2024
TOGETHER FOR HOPE ANNUAL MEETING | Decatur, GA | October, 2024
CINEMA LAB THE PLAYHOUSE | New Canaan, CT | October, 2024
GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | San Jose, CA | November, 2024
ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | St. Louis, MO | November, 2024
ANGELIKA FILM CENTER & CAFE | Dallas, TX | December, 2024
DELTA ARTS ALLIANCE | Cleveland, MS | January, 2025
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | Lewisburg, PA | January, 2025
SECOND PONCE DE LEON BAPTIST CHURCH | Atlanta, GA | March, 2025

 

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…”

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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.”

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Dallas! Catch us this Monday for our Texas premiere of Rising Hope. Click the link in our bio to get tickets!
Bay Area--come out and join us at Golden Gate International Film Festival tomorrow! We're honored to be nominated for the following awards: 📽Best Editing 📽Best Director 📽Best Original Score 📽Best Cinematography 📽Best Documentary Film 📽Best
Prepping for tonight’s screening in @theo_avgerinos hometown! We’re excited to see you New Canaan— It’s sure to be a special one🎥 Tickets are sold out for tonight’s screenings, but we plan on having more in the area so
St. Louis! Catch our screening of Rising Hope at @stlfilmfest 🎥 Our team is honored to be part of such an incredible festival and share the screen with filmmakers from across the world. Click the link in our bio to reserve seats!
We’d love to take a second to highlight one of our film participants, Pamela D.C. Junior! 🎥 Motivational speaker, historian, and women’s activist, Pamela fought tirelessly to make the Museum a first-class place of interpretation, bringi
We had a wonderful time @msartsorg this Tuesday! It’s been so incredibly special to show Rising Hope in venues dedicated to Mississippi’s land, culture, and people. At the MAX, we were deeply humbled to screen Rising Hope amongst Missis
We had a fantastic time yesterday at the @museumofmshistory ! It was a honor to show the film in Mississippi’s capital, in a museum dedicated to carrying Mississippi’s multi-dimensional history. What better a place to hear from the incr
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Throughout 2024, we’ve been honored with awards at film festivals across the country. We are deeply thankful for the opportunities we’ve had to share this story in front of audiences far and wide. More importantly, we are incredibly moved
We are thrilled to share that Rising Hope has been accepted into St. Louis International Film Festival📽️ From their website: “SLIFF is a regional, internationally-themed film event dedicated to exploring cross-cultural understanding through