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The Center for Social Media in conjunction with the

SOC Women's Collective and the AU Career Center are pleased to sponsor
Judith Helfand: Creating Films, Creating Change
Thursday, March 25, 2010
5:30pm to 6:30pm
American University Campus, Ward 1
Come hear renowned documentary filmmaker and environmental and social activist Judith Helfand speak about her own films and journey as a filmmaker, as well as her recent work as co-founder of Chicken & Egg Pictures, which funds and promotes women's documentary projects directed toward social change.
Judith's own filmography includes: The Uprising of 24(co-directed with George Stoney), the Sundance-award-winning, twice Emmy nominated Blue Vinyl(co-directed with Daniel B. Gold), and its Peabody-award-winning prequel A Healthy Baby Girl(a five-year video-diary about her experience with DES related cancer), Everything's Cool(on global warming prophets and revisionists, co-directed with Daniel Gold), and--most recenlty--Cooked, a film in progress on an historic and deadly heat wave in Chicago and the lessons it offers on environmental disasters, social inequity, and communal responsibility. All of her films--to one degree or another--focus on home, class, corporate accountability, intergenerational relationships and the ever shrinking border between what is personal and what is a critical part of the public record.
Building on a decade of developing innovative outreach and organizing efforts around the distribution of her own films, Helfand co-founded Working Films with film curator and media activist, Robert West and, more recently, Chicken & Egg Pictures with Julie Parker Benello and Wendy Ettinger where she serves as Director of Strategic and Creative Development.
For more information about Judith and her work visit:
http://www.judithhelfand.com
http://www.chickeneggpics.org
http://www.workingfilms.org
http://www.everythingscool.org
http://twitter.com/judithhelfand
Questions or Comments? Contact socialmedia@american.edu
American University is located at 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016.
Parking is free in the Butler Pavilion Parking Garage adjacent to the Mary Graydon Center and and the Nebraska Parking Lot after 5:00pm. Click here for directions: http://www1.american.edu/tesol/Directions.htm.