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March 30, 2005
Tia Lessin on Making Controversial Documentaries
Lecture & Clip Screening, 5:30 PM Wechsler
Theater
 Tia
Lessin, a New York-based documentary filmmaker, received the 2002
Sidney Hillman Award for her work as producer and director of Behind
the Labels, a film about sweatshops in Saipan that was shown
on the Oxygen cable channel, before Congress and in theaters nationwide.
Lessin was the supervising producer of the Academy Award-winning
documentary film Bowling for Columbine and associate producer
of the Academy Award-nominated Shadows of Hate. She has
twice been nominated for Emmy Awards for her work in television.
She co-produced Michael Moore's latest film Fahrenheit 9/11.
April 10, 2005
Peter Raymont presents a Double Feature
Co-sponsored by the Center as part of the
School of Communication Reel Journalism Festival, which runs April
8-10.
The World Is Watching (1987,
58 min.)
Who decides what's news? How do they decide?
How much of what we see and read is fact Fiction? And what of the
men and women in the field; are foreign correspondents allowed to
tell all that they see, or are they just employees, mouth-pieces
fro an invisible editorial line? This thought-provoking documentary
by filmmaker Peter Raymont examines these issues by focusing on
several journalist working in Nicaragua during the negotiations
surrounding the Arias Peace Plan in November 1987. Features
AU SOC's Artist in Residence Bill Gentile, formerly of Newsweek.
More
on the film>>
 The
World Stopped Watching (2003, 58 min.)
Shot in Nicaragua in late 2002 and early 2003,
The World Stopped Watching is a sequel to the award winning
documentary film The World Is Watching - a cinema verité
examination of foreign news coverage of a climactic moment in the
US-financed Contra war against Nicaragua’s revolutionary government.
Both Raymont and Gentile will lead discussion following the
screening. More
on the film>>
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