Wed, Oct 12 / 9 pm
Directed by Jesse Moss
2014, USA, 100 min
Join filmmakers and leaders in the anti-poverty movement as we explore ways to help our city’s most vulnerable. Two days of discussion and screenings about poverty and homelessness.
Introduced by Ramona Pauls, Spiritual Care Coordinator at Siloam Mission.
In the tiny town of Williston, North Dakota, tens of thousands of unemployed hopefuls, lured there by the oil boom, show up with dreams of honest work and a big paycheck. However, busloads of newcomers chasing a broken American Dream step into the stark reality of slim work prospects and nowhere to sleep. The Overnighters is a deeply moving portrait of Pastor Jay Reinke who ministers to the unemployed and uses his church as a crash pad for the homeless.
