6:00 PM - Traditional Popcorn & Champagne Toast on Mezzanine Level of the Arlington Hotel
6:30 PM - Doors open
7:00 PM - Welcome by Honorary Co-Chairs Beau Bridges and Louis Gossett, Jr.
Opening Night screening of Command and Control followed by Q&A with the film’s Oscar®-nominated, Emmy®-winning director/producer Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.), best-selling author Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation, Command and Control), along with producer Melissa Robledo and PBS American Experience Producer Mark Samels. Featured subjects Greg Devlin, a survivor of the explosion, Skip Rutherford, current Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service (UACS), and Sam Hutto, a dairy farmer who was near the site, will join the Q&A following the screening, along with others who were present the day of the explosion in September 1980 in Damascus, Arkansas.
At the close of the Q&A, Robert Kenner will be presented with the HSDFF Career Achievement Award 2016.
PLEASE NOTE: IN ORDER TO GUARANTEE SEATING, ALL-ACCESS PASSHOLDERS MUST MAKE RESERVATIONS FOR OPENING AND CLOSING NIGHT EVENTS by no later than Friday, September 30 for Opening Night and Saturday, October 8 for Closing Night. Tickets will be for sale at the door only as available. To reserve, please email reservations@hsdfi.org by the deadlines.
6:15 PM - Doors Open
6:30 PM - Closing Night Awards Ceremony
7:00 PM - Closing Night screening of MY FRIEND ED followed by Q&A with legendary actor Ed Asner and director Sharon Baker, moderated by Asner’s Lou Grant co-star Robert Walden.
At the close of the Q&A, the film My Friend Ed, filmmaker Sharon Baker, and Asner, the film’s subject, will be presented with the Heifer International Spa City Spirit Award.
Screening sponsored by Heifer International
