NIH Science In The Cinema FREE SCREENINGS! July 7 - August 11

This summer, AFI Silver will again host the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Science Education's (OSE) exciting public program, Science in the Cinema. This six-week series offers a different film with a medical or science-related theme every Wednesday. An audience Q&A session with a guest expert follows each screening. Admission is FREE!

Tickets are ONLY available at the AFI Silver box office on the day of the screening starting at 4:00 p.m. Reservations cannot be made by phone. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis; limit 4 per person.

Science in the Cinema is open to the public and intended for a broad range of individuals interested in movies, science and medicine. For more information on this year's lineup of films and guest speakers, visit science.education.nih.gov/cinema. All films will be shown with open captions for the deaf and hard of hearing and American Sign Language interpreters will be available for the post-film discussions. Those requiring reasonable accommodations to participate should contact OSE at least five days prior to the event:

Email: moorec@mail.nih.gov
Phone: 301.402.2470/TTY: 301.496.9706

All shows presented on DVD

SNOWCAKE

(2006) - Autism
Starring Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver and Carrie-Anne Moss

Guest expert: Kenneth E. Towbin, M.D., Chief, Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health

Wednesday, July 7, 7:00

CANDY

(2006) - Drug addiction
Starring Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush

Guest expert: Ruben Baler, Ph.D., Health Science Administrator, Office of Science Policy and Communications, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health

Wednesday, July 14, 7:00

EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES

(2010) - Rare diseases, Pompe disease
Starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser

Guest expert: Stephen Groft, Pharm.D., Director, Office of Rare Diseases Research, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health

Wednesday, July 21, 7:00

IN THE FAMILY

(2008) - Genetic testing, BRCA mutation
A documentary by Joanna Rudnick

Guest expert: Barbara B. Biesecker, M.S., Associate Investigator, Social and Behavioral Research Branch; Director, JHU/NHGRI Genetic Counseling Training Program, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health

Wednesday, July 28, 7:00

MY SISTER'S KEEPER

(2009) - Bioethics, kidney transplantation
Starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin and Alec Baldwin

Guest expert: Pamela S. Hinds, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., Director, Department of Nursing Research, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC

Wednesday, August 4, 7:00

A SONG FOR MARTIN* [En sång för Martin]

(2001) - Alzheimer's disease
By Academy Award-winning director Bille August

Guest expert: Neil Buckholtz, Ph.D., Chief, Dementias of Aging Branch, Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health

*In Swedish with English subtitles

Wednesday, August 11, 7:00