The Feeling of Being Watched viewing and conversation

When: Nov 22, 6pm-9pm

Dónde: Teatro Canyon, Biblioteca Pública de Boulder

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In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, The Feeling of Being Watched weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance. Assia struggles to disrupt the government secrecy shrouding what happened and takes the FBI to federal court to compel them to make the records they collected about her community public. In the process, she confronts long-hidden truths about the FBI’s relationship to her community. The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family.

Boulder SURJ is proud to present the next event of our Justice Film Series! Doors will open at 6PM, and we will be meeting in the Canyon Theater in the Boulder Public Library. The programming will begin at 6:15 sharp, so plan on arriving early to allow time for parking and finding snacks & seating before the movie starts.

We will have two-three excellent community facilitators to lead conversation after the showing, to be determined as of right now.

Este evento es GRATUITO, aunque se aceptan donaciones para que podamos continuar con nuestra programación en 2025 y seguir pagando a nuestros cineastas y facilitadores mientras mantenemos una experiencia de costo cero y permanecemos abiertos a todos los que quieran venir. Si puedes, por favor done a través de nuestro patrocinador fiscal 501(c)(3), Longmont Community Foundation.