Film Sampler: The Janes
Join us for Film Sampler, a series of film screenings focused on themes of protest and resistance.
Watch a screening of The Janes (2010, 101 min), followed by a talk back.
Police arrested seven women who were part of a clandestine network. Using code names, blindfolds and safe houses, they built an underground service for women seeking safe, affordable, illegal abortions calling themselves JANE.
These screenings are free and open to the public, no registration or ticket required.
Film Sampler, organized in partnership with the U-M Department of Film, Television, and Media (FTVM), is offered in conjunction with the UMMA exhibition American Sampler: Activating the Archive.
Lead support for American Sampler is provided by Joseph and Annette Allen, Nicole and Matthew Lester, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Susan and Richard Gutow, U-M Arts Initiative, U-M Institute for the Humanities, the Mary L. Wolter Welz Fund, and the Marvin H. and Mary M. Davidson Endowed Fund. Additional generous support is provided by U-M CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, U-M Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice, U-M Initiative for Democracy & Civic Empowerment, U-M Department of History, and U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.
