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Little Pink House

A Private Film Screening

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Hayek Auditorium, Cato Institute
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Featuring
Susette Kelo
Courtney Moorehead Balaker
Ted Balaker
Scott Bullock

Join us for a special private screening of the motion picture Little Pink House. The event includes a Q&A session with Susette Kelo, the real-life plaintiff in the infamous U.S. Supreme Court case Kelo v. New London, along with the film’s director and writer, Courtney Moorehead Balaker, and producer, Ted Balaker, and Institute for Justice President Scott Bullock, who argued Kelo’s case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
 

Little Pink House has been lauded by the Hollywood Reporter, Deadline Hollywood, and John Stossel, among others. It stars two-time Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener and Emmy nominee Jeanne Tripplehorn, and it features the original song “Home Free,” written and performed for the movie by rock legend David Crosby of Crosby, Stills & Nash.

The movie showcases the true story of Susette Kelo, a small-town paramedic who buys her first home — a cottage — and paints it pink. When politicians plan to bulldoze it for a corporation, she fights back, taking her case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Even after she lost in court, her struggle sparked a nationwide backlash against eminent domain abuse that today helps millions of Americans better protect what is rightfully theirs.

11:30AM – Noon Registration and sandwiches
Noon Private film screening
1:40PM Q&A with lunch and dessert to follow

Duration of the film is 99 minutes. For more information on the film, visit www​.Lit​tlePinkHouse​Movie​.com.

This film screening will not be live streamed online.