Texas Tech honors Mandela Day with showing of Invictus

LUBBOCK, Texas— The movie Invictus, starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, will soon be shown at Texas Tech on Thursday.

Invictus is the first of three films in the Global Views Film Series with the theme “Authoritarianism in International Cinema.” The theme builds on the humanities’ premise that stories can trigger productive intellectual and emotional responses that effectively engage with the public.

Invictus is a 2009 biographical sports film based on the 2009 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation , which describes events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Texas Tech is hosting twenty-five of Africa’s emerging leaders for a Leadership Institute sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

The production will start at 6 p.m. inside the auditorium at the International Cultural Center located at 601 Indiana Avenue.

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