Reading, Pa.- As a part of the International Film Series and in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Albright College will host the showing of The World Stopped Watching on Tuesday,October 12, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in Klein Lecture Hall, Center for the Arts. Bill Gentile, an independent journalist who is featured in the film, will present a lecture following the film. This event is free and open to the public.

The World Stopped Watching is a 58-minute documentary which exhibits unprecedented behind the scenes images and interviews from Nicaragua, a country which lies in ruin from a devastated economy. The film unveils the starving families living off garbage dumps, survivors of murderous attacks, and a never before seen interview with former president Daniel Ortega. Despite the inhumane conditions, the film also documents the reconciliation taking place of a culture trying to rebuild itself.

Bill Gentile is currently teaching at American University in Washington, D.C. He is an independent journalist and documentary filmmaker who covered the 1979 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua. His book of photographs titled Nicaragua won the Overseas Press Club Award for Excellence.

The Center for the Arts is located on the Albright College campus at 13 th and Bern Streets, Reading, Pa. For more information or disabled assistance please call College Relations at 610-921-7256.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,670 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.