The Small Town Universe screening event will be hosted on March 7, 2025 in Ming Hsieh Hall, Room G20 (720 College Avenue, Morgantown, WV, 26505). A reception will take place at 6:30 PM, with the screening at 7:00 PM and the panel discussion at 8:30 PM.
Watch the Trailer on VimeoWest Virginia Alliance for STEM and the Arts is thrilled to partner with Emmy nominated Director Katie Dellamaggiore and her company Rescued Media to present an exclusive screening of their new film Small Town Universe as part of their series, Stories with STEAM: The Appalachian Circuit.
Co-sponsored by the West Virginia University Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of English, and the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, this exclusive screening will be held on WVU's campus. The event is free and open to all as capacity allows.
Small Town Universe (STU) shares stories of love, loss, resilience, hope, scientific discovery, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Green Bank, WV, a small town with a big telescope. STU debuted this past April at the 2024 Cleveland International Film Festival in the historic Mimi Theater, where it won the Global Health Award, and was part of the Solar Eclipse day events that CIFF partnered with the Great Lakes Science Center and the John Glenn NASA Center to make happen. It has been and continues to go to multiple film festivals, winning awards and audiences’ hearts across the country and beyond.
Following the screening, attendees will have the chance to join a growing conversation about the importance of community, compassion, connection, and our place in the Cosmos. Director Katie Dellamaggiore will join a panel of people from the film, local scientists, humanity scholars, and other experts to discuss the film and take questions.