Horizons of Knowledge Lecture Series
presents
Roberta Durrant
An independent film/TV producer from South Africa
Monday, November 12
5:30-6:45 P.M.
Woodburn Hall 009
Critically-acclaimed producer and director of Penguin Films, South Africa, Roberta Durrant will present her experiences in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa as a long-time media industry practitioner. Durrant has produced fictional and non-fictional television shows for the South African Broadcasting Corporation and other companies with an eye to facilitating the transition to democracy and educating the population on their political rights. Her production company has won national and international recognition for its television shows and documentaries and is currently up for an International Emmy in New York in November.
Durrant will lecture on her expertise as a creative producer/director working in a culturally diverse South Africa with particular reference to her own independent productions. Questions and answers will follow the presentation.
Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students are invited to attend
Sponsored by: Communication and Culture
Film and Media Studies
African Studies
Anthropology
Gender Studies
