Jesse Moss, 2014

Winner of the 2014 Sundance Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking, The Overnighters tells the story of Pastor Jay Reinke, who converts his church into a make-shift dorm and counseling center for migrant workers who have traveled to Williston, North Dakota looking for a second chance in the booming oil industry. A modern-day Grapes of Wrath, The Overnighters engages and dramatizes a set of universal societal and economic themes: the promise and limits of re-invention, redemption and compassion, as well as the tension between the moral imperative to “love thy neighbor” and the resistance that one small community feels when confronted by a surging river of desperate, job-seeking strangers. 90 minutes.

Screening with FOUNDRY NIGHT SHIFT (Steven Bognar, 2014)


As American manufacturing has diminished, one industrial outpost in Ohio roars on. Alone in a huge, dark foundry, two men work at night to forge the metal “plates” or frames of every Steinway piano. 5 minutes.