On Friday April 1 at 9:30 am, Stanley Nelson will meet with CMCL students in Room 203. Though organized originally for the production courses, I think this might be of interest to other areas in the department. Please feel free to join us and to pass on this information to your students. We will be offering some refreshments.
Later that day, Stanley Nelson will also give a public lecture at the IU Cinema at 3pm, and at 7pm he will screen his newest documentary The Freedom Riders, about young civil rights activists who challenged segregation in the South in the early 1960s. The documentary was made for PBS American Experience, where it will premiere on May 16. For more information look here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
Stanley Nelson is an award winning filmmaker who has done a number of documentaries for PBS, among them Wounded Knee, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, The Murder of Emmett Till and Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice. He has won the Sundance Special Jury Prize, Peabody Award, Primetime Emmy, an IDA Award, and a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton.
