Now Booking! The Cure for Hate Screenings + Q&As
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOSTING A SCREENING OF THE CURE FOR HATE?
This spring kicks off a screening campaign and tour for award-winning filmmaker Peter Hutchison’s powerful new documentary The Cure for Hate — and we want you to be a part of it!
Through April and May, we’re offering 20% off screenings to help bring this deeply moving and inspiring film to more communities.
The Cure for Hate documents the profound journey of atonement taken by Tony McAleer, a one-time white-supremacist skinhead and Holocaust denier, as he travels to the former Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau to reckon with his past and probe the conditions that allowed for the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe. Along the way, McAleer, the co-founder of the activist group Life After Hate, shines much-needed light on how people get into and out of violent extremist groups, underscores the dangers of allowing hate to go unchallenged, and demonstrates the transformative power of education and empathy. The result is a powerful teaching tool for critically examining and confronting the forces that give rise to antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, and other forms of hate.
Whether you’re just curious or already thinking about bringing The Cure for Hate to your campus or community, we’d love to help.
Click here and we’ll send you details on how a screening works, what support we provide, and how to decide if it’s right for your group. We’ll also give you information on how to book Peter Hutchison and Tony McAleer for talks and Q&As.
Peter Hutchison is an award-winning filmmaker, bestselling author, educator and activist. His critically-acclaimed films include Requiem for the American Dream (featuring Noam Chomsky), The Cure for Hate: Bearing Witness to Auschwitz, Devil Put the Coal in the Ground, Healing from Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation, and The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (featuring George Monbiot).
Tony McAleer is the author of the book The Cure for Hate and is an international speaker that strives to educate individuals, families, communities, law enforcement, and governments that are struggling to grapple with the White Supremacist movements. Tony co-founded the not for profit, Life After Hate, an organization that helps people leave White Supremacist movements behind, helping those who are where he once was.
“This powerful documentary points insistently towards our own present, with the rapid rise of the extreme right in the US and Europe raising the specter of history repeating itself. Tony McAleer’s warning is also a call for compassion — and a cry for all of us to recognize the urgency of the terrible danger posed by antisemitism, Islamophobia, and racial hate around the world.”
— Melani McAlister, Professor, American Studies and International Affairs, George Washington University
“This film is so powerful… [Tony McAleer’s] journey to bear witness, interspersed with his personal story, is incredible.”
— June Morris, Board of Directors, National Council for Social Studies
“I can’t stress this enough, this film is something special and is not something you have ever experienced before. This film will move you…one of the best I’ve seen in 2023.”
— Steve Kopian, Unseen Films
“It’s documentaries like this one that must keep the memory of the horrors of genocide over ideology alive today, or dare we repeat the past.”
— Alan Ng, Film Threat
“A riveting and deeply important film.”
— Kathryn Spitz Cohan, Film Pittsburgh
“In today’s environment, with increasing division and othering, programs like [this] are more essential than ever. […] The program’s focus on addressing the roots of hatred and violence speaks directly to the needs of our community and, we believe, many others across the nation.”
— Jess Westhoff, Education Programs Manager, Wassmuth Center for Human Rights
“The Cure for Hate provides avenues to process in a clear, apolitical and meaningful way. Against the backdrop of today’s current events, that is not easy to do. Though it’s been several months, the impact of The Cure for Hate lingers in Brattleboro, VT. I am still hearing from teachers and students how grateful they were for the experience.”
— Susan Healy, Administrative Director, Windham World Affairs Council
“The timely message that The Cure For Hate promotes needs to be heard by everyone. Why? Because those who want to make a positive impact in their community will feel supported and motivated to continue their good work, and those who are going down the path of hatred and bigotry will be challenged to confront their own views.”
— Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner, Temple Shalom, Louisville, KY
