Yorktown, Somers, Lakeland Students Can See Movie 'Selma' For Free

Written by Barbara Heins (Patch Staff)

The #SelmaForStudents effort has come to Westchester County and starting Friday, Jan. 16 and continuing through Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 19, seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students can see the movie Selma for free.

The limited, free admission program is being led by a team of African-American business leaders in New York, with organizations across the U.S. coordinating a massive national campaign to find African-American business leaders to underwrite free admission to the film Selma for students around the country, according to SelmaStudentTickets.com. See the film’s trailer below.

Because of the success in New York City where 27,000 students saw the movie, dozens of cities across the country have been added to the program. In next door Connecticut for example, donors helped about 8,000 students around the state receive free admission, according to an announcement from Stamford Public Schools.

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Students need to show a school ID card or their report card for free admission, according to SelmaStudentTickets.com. Tickets are available while the supply lasts.

The program was expanded with generous donations from many of the country’s most prominent African-American business leaders, to allow more than 275,000 students nationwide to see the award-winning movie starring David Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey and Carmen Ejogo.

Here are participating theaters in Westchester County, according to #SelmaForStudents:

• City Center 15: Cinema de Lux in White Plains
• Regal New Roc Stadium 18 in New Rochelle
• Showcase Cinema de Lux Ridge Hill in Yonkers

Photo credit: IMDB.com