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[Audio] 2016's "Lion" Opens Fall 2017 Cinema International Season

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Cinema International returns to Murray State's Curris Center Theater this weekend with the 2016 Australian film Lion.  Based on a true story, it features a mostly Indian cast with Slumdog Millionaire's Dev Patel as a young man who, having surviving life on Calcutta streets and being adopted into an Australian family, seeks to re-unite with his birth parents.  Todd Hatton speaks with Cinema International Director Dr. Therese St. Paul about the film.

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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