While movie stars walk down the red carpet for the Academy Awards^®, students at the Hazleton Campus Library can experience their own film festival when they borrow a DVD from the “15 Movies in 15 Weeks” series. The library staff promotes the popular series and weekly selections to students on campus through print flyers and social media during both the fall and spring semesters.

The Penn State Hazleton Faculty Senate Library and Information Committee select many of the titles for the “15 Movies in 15 Weeks” list, now in its sixth year. The committee recommended movies that have social and/or political implications with the potential to impact students’ worldviews.

Three-time Academy Award^®-winning film Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is available to students the week of Feb. 27; the film the week before was Amores Perros (2000), also from Mexico, and also nominated for an Oscar^® for Best Foreign Language Film. Como Agua por Chocolate (1992), was the pick for the week of Valentine’s Day.

In more recent years, movies that expand the theme of the Penn State Reads book were chosen for inclusion. During the 2015 fall semester, Gasland (2010), Gasland Part II (2013), FrackNation (2013), Promised Land (2012), Breaking Free: The Shale Rock Revolution (2015), and Split Estate (2009) were among the selections offered in conjunction with the Penn State Reads book entitled, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.