Nightlight Screening Series | 'Soft Fiction' and 'Roseblood'
Feb 20 | 6:30 p.m. | Northlight Gallery
Based on a true story from right here in the Valley. A group of students. One impossible challenge. A story of innovation, resilience, and teamwork.
Join us for an in-person SpaceHACK Movie Night featuring "Spare Parts," a film that celebrates creativity, problem-solving and believing in what’s possible.
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Location: Hayden Library, Research Commons (Level 3, northwest corner)
4:30 p.m.: Networking and Sign-In
Join us for an intimate screening of MGM’s Bridal Suite (1939), a rarely shown romantic comedy set between London and Switzerland and steeped in the elegance of late-1930s European style. The film is especially notable as the only motion picture to receive an on-screen credit for writer Virginia Faulkner.
This rarely screened 1993 crime drama (released as “Bound by Honor”), and a personal favorite of Poitier Film School deputy director Peter Murrieta, gets the big-screen treatment it deserves. Directed by Taylor Hackford with a partly autobiographical screenplay by poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Blood In, Blood Out” follows the intertwining lives of three Chicano relatives - bound by blood, divided by fate - who join the East LA Vatos Locos gang.
The Sidney Poitier New American Film School kicks off its Spring ‘26 Latino Screening Series with Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s first feature film, “Cronos.” In a gothic Mexican take on the vampire mythos, a kind and elderly antiques dealer happens across a scarab-shaped device that grants eternal life - along with a thirst for blood. “Cronos” won the Ariel Award for Best Picture, Mexico’s highest cinematic award.
Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Robert Rodriguez’s camp horror classic as it was meant to be seen and enjoy the mayhem on the big screen. A pair of fugitive brothers on the run (played by George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, who also wrote the screenplay) take a family hostage and decide to hole up for the night in a strip club in the Mexican desert. It would be the perfect hiding spot if it weren’t for all the vampires.
TABOR is a Kyiv-based independent production company, founded by a group of engaged Ukrainian filmmakers and artists. They have created feature narrative films, documentary, theatrical performances, commercials, and social campaigns. Their work often examines war, displacement, and imaginaries of resilience.
Join The Sidney Poitier New American Film School for a pair of documentary film screenings curated by Professor Nita Blum-Reddick. Together, these films explore cinema as a practice shaped by the hands that hold the camera—and, in turn, shape how we see one another. In “The Gleaners & I,” Agnès Varda offers a distinctly unified essayistic perspective, unfolding through a series of vignettes that follow people across France as they rummage through overlooked or discarded objects, gathering fragments of everyday life.
The Sidney Poitier New American Film School celebrates the career and singular artistry of the late, great David Lynch with a pair of screenings highlighting two of his most important films. First up is Lynch’s debut, 1977’s surreally unsettling “Eraserhead.” Produced while Lynch as a student at the American Film Institute on a shoestring budget and released to little fanfare, its reputation grew over years of midnight screenings to cult-classic status.
Love is in the air at the ASU MIX Center this February, where The Sidney Poitier New American Film School hosts a pair of swoon-worthy film screenings. First up is the 2000 Wong Kar-wai film “In the Mood for Love,” starring Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as a man and woman in 1962 Hong Kong who discover their spouses are cheating on them, and then in their commiseration begin to develop feelings for one another. One of the most ravishing films ever made, “In the Mood for Love” has come to be recognized as a major work of Asian cinema.