Department of English

• Wednesday, March 30, 2016 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Zellerbach Theatre

The transformational movie Spotlight -- winner of this year's Academy Awards for best picture and best original screenplay -- tells the story of the Boston Globe team that exposed the Roman Catholic Church's cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests.

Join Josh Singer, Spotlight’s Oscar-winning producer and screenwriter, and Neal Huff, who played survivor Phil Saviano, as they discuss the film, followed by a faculty panel:

Marci Hamilton (Moderator), Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law, Cardozo Law School; Visiting Fellow, Penn Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PPRUCS); Author, Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children

Steven Berkowitz, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine; Director, Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery

Peter Decherney, Professor of English and Cinema Studies, Penn Arts and Sciences