Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque presents Cleveland filmmaker Laura Paglin’s award-winning documentary This is Pike County

Founded in 1986, the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque is one of the country’s best repertory movie theaters, according to The New York Times. The program shows classic, foreign and independent films 50 weekends of the year. Its state-of-the-art Peter B. Lewis Theater features a 36-foot-wide screen, 4k digital and dual 35mm film projection, and Dolby Digital 7.1 sound.

Director Laura Paglin

Laura Paglin’s films have screened at the Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on HBO, Peacock, Starz and PBS. Her previous feature documentary, Unseen, examining the Anthony Sowell serial murders in Cleveland, is distributed by FilmRise and has become one of the more popular true crime titles on Amazon Prime, having made many "best of" lists.

Producer Thomas Lennon

Thomas Lennon is an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has received four Academy Award nominations (two wins), two Peabody Awards, two national Emmy Awards and two Sundance premieres. In 2021, Variety named him one of the world’s top 50 film instructors. He currently directs the Documentary Film Lab at Rutgers University.