Environmental Film Festival 2008: Visiting Filmmaker Liz Miller

March 20, 7:00 PM

Wechsler Theater, 3rd Fl. Mary Graydon Center, American University

Join Spring 2008 Visiting Filmmaker and special lecturer, Liz Miller to discuss her latest film, The Water Front, with Center Director and Professor Pat Aufderheide. Learn how documentary film can play a role in environmental activism and justice!

About the film
What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it? Residents of Highland Park, Michigan, known as the birthplace of the auto-industry, have received water bills as high as $10,000; they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are struggling to keep water, a basic human right, from becoming privatized. The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles. (53 minutes, 2007)

About the director
Liz Miller is a documentary filmmaker, community media artist, and professor with an MFA in Electronic Arts from Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute and an BA in Social Thought and Political Economics from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. For the last fifteen years, Miller has developed documentary and community media projects with youth, senior citizens and a wide range of human rights organizations.

Learn more about the film and Liz Miller here.

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Directions to Wechsler Theater: The Mary Graydon Center is one of the main buildings on the campus central quad. When facing the library, it is the building to the right, on the quad. The Wechsler Theater is on the 3rd floor of the Mary Graydon Center building. More directions can be found here.