The Oscar-winning movie Spotlight will be the focus of the 2016 Levin Family Dean’s Forum, “How Hollywood is Spotlighting Social Change: A Conversation with Spotlight Director/Screenwriter Tom McCarthy and Producer/Screenwriter Josh Singer.” The Dean’s Forum will take place on Wednesday, March 30, at 4:30 p.m. in the Zellerbach Theatre at the Annenberg Center. The event is free and open to the public.

The transformational movie Spotlight—winner of this year’s Academy Awards for best picture and best original screenplay—tells the story of the Boston Globe team that exposed the Roman Catholic Church’s cover-up of the sexual abuse of children by priests. Tom McCarthy, who directed and co-wrote the screenplay for Spotlight, and producer and co-writer Josh Singer will discuss the film and how they approached telling this story.

Their remarks will be followed by a faculty panel moderated by Marci Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Cardozo Law School, visiting fellow with the Penn Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PPRUCS) and author of Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children. Other members of the panel are Steven Berkowitz, associate professor of clinical psychiatry and director of the Penn Center for Youth and Family Trauma Response and Recovery, and Peter Decherney, professor of English and cinema studies.

For more information, please visit: www.sas.upenn.edu/spotlight-forum