The first-ever Dayton-area screening of Storm Lake — the acclaimed documentary that follows Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen and his family as they fight to keep local news alive in a small Iowa farming town through their biweekly newspaper, The Storm Lake Times, “come hell or pandemic.”
Directed by Jerry Risius and Beth Levison, Storm Lake is an urgent, moving portrait of why local journalism matters — and what’s at stake when it disappears. After the film, attendees heard directly from Art Cullen and director Jerry Risius in a live virtual Q&A.
Schedule
- 6:00 PM — Doors open
- 6:15 PM — Screening begins
- 7:45 PM — Virtual Q&A with director Jerry Risius and journalist Art Cullen
- Afterwards — Social mixer at The Dayton Beer Company
Free and open to the public.