The public is invited to a screening of a Peace Corps documentary Monday, February 5 at 7 p.m. in the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Performing Arts Center. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. There is no admission charge.

A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps is directed by Alana DeJoseph, who will be at the screening. DeJoseph has worked in video and film production for nearly 40 years. She began her career as a 10-year-old actress and since then has been a producer, director, videographer, and editor. Between 2003 and 2013, she was associate producer of the PBS documentaries The Greatest Good (about the U.S. Forest Service) and Green Fire (about Aldo Leopold).

In 2013, DeJoseph began working on the first feature documentary about the history of the Peace Corps. On September 22, 2019, the film premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In December 2020, she won the Best Director award in the feature documentary category at the Indo Global International Film Festival in Mumbai.