St Peter de Merton with St Cuthbert, De Parys Avenue, Bedford

7pm

St. Peter’s Film Club meets in the Chapter House monthly from September to July. Showings are normally on a Monday evening and start at 7.00 p.m unless stated otherwise. After the film wine, juices and nibbles are served with an opportunity to discuss the film. 

Contributions towards the cost of the refreshments are always welcome, but there is no charge for admission.

Hidden Figures (2016, PG). USA. Colour and monochrome, 127 mins.

A 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about African American female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race and their battle with sexism . The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions. The film also features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles. 

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