Participatory Video for Social Change - With Visiting Filmmaker DeeDee Halleck

April 3, 5:30 PM

5:30-8:00 pm, Room 303A, 3rd Floor, Mary Graydon Center, AU campus

Independent filmmaker DeeDee Halleck will give a FREE public lecture on the role of participatory video for social change.

DeeDee is the co-founder of Paper Tiger Television and the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. She is Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of California at San Diego. Her first film, Children Make Movies(1961), was about a film-making project at the Lillian Wald Settlement in Lower Manhattan. Her film, Mural on Our Street wasnominated for Academy Award in 1965. She has led media workshops with elementary school children, reform school youth and migrant farmers.

Her full bio can be found here.

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Parking and Directions: Parking is located in the parking lot across from campus, located at Nebraska Ave. NW and New Mexico Ave. NW. It is free after 5 pm. Cross Nebraska Ave. to the AU campus. The Mary Graydon building is just on the other side of the central quad (grassy area), to the right of the library, if you are facing the library