"The Visitor" Screening and Discussion with the Hutto Visitation Program

MonkeyWrench hosts a free screening of "The Visitor" - the 2008 screenplay that focuses on a lonely professor in late middle age whose life changes when he makes a connection with an immigrant who is subsequently placed in detention and deportation preceedings in post-9/11 New York City. For The Visitor, Thomas McCarthy won the 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director, while Richard Jenkins was nominated for Best Actor in the 2009 Academy Awards.

The screening will be followed by a presentation by the Hutto Visitation Program which arranges a visitation program for women detained at the T. Don Hutto immigrant detention center in Taylor, Texas.