REL 311 Organize a Community Screening for the Three Chaplains film
REL 311 is an online training program to prepare organizers to host a film screening of the PBS Documentary Three Chaplains in their community. The film is ideal for convening conversations about chaplaincy, Muslims in America, and pluralism on military bases, in houses of worship, community centers, and beyond.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, community members can use the following self-paced course to learn how to host a film screening for the PBS documentary Three Chaplains.
TRAINING (2 hours). The following three-hour online training course includes watching the one-hour film, studying the discussion guide, and learning best practices for facilitating interfaith dialogue.
ORGANIZING (8 hours). The training prepares you to choose a time, date, and location and seek community co-sponsors. The goal is to have a minimum of 20 attendees who watch the film and complete the pre- and post-film surveys.
HOSTING (2 hours). Hosts will start the event by articulating best practices for dialoguing across differences and invite the audience to complete a pre-film survey via their cell phones. Hosts will show the one-hour film and engage the attendees in a 30- to 45-minute discussion, including collecting results from the post-film survey. After the event, hosts will clean and restore the space.
REPORTING (0.5 hour). Hosts will spend one hour reporting the screening results and providing the filmmakers and grantmakers feedback about campus and viewer engagement.
Adult, Continuing Education
Special Thanks
The following course was made possible thanks to the generous support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations and the Dorris Duke Foundation. Screening support, curriculum development, and fellowship coordination support were provided by Red Owls Partners, Chaplaincy Innovation Law, 1791 Delegates, and The Foundation for Religious Literacy.
Credits
TERRACE FILMS and ITVS present “THREE CHAPLAINS,” a documentary film by DAVID WASHBURN
Editors DAVID WASHBURN & ERIC DANIEL METZGAR
Original Music BRIAN DEMING
Executive Producer SALLY JO FIFER
Director DAVID WASHBURN
Producers RAZI JAFRI & DAVID WASHBURN
THREE CHAPLAINS is a co-production of Terrace Films LLC, and ITVS with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Independent Television Service, the Doris Duke Foundation, the Chicago Media Project, the Hartley Film Foundation, the Islamic Scholarship Fund, the Sundance Institute, and Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film’s Impact Campaign and Fellowship Program was made possible by a generous grant from the Arthur Vining Davis with in-kind support from The Foundation for Religious Literacy.
This program was produced by Terrace Films LLC, which is solely responsible for its content.
