News & Events

May 19, 2006

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Carl Young, Interim Director of Communications
425.352.8256
cyoung@cascadia.edu

Award-winning Local Filmmaker will Present Public Screening and Discussion at Cascadia Community College

Bothell, WA - Jill Freidberg, who directed This is What Democracy Looks Like, the award winning documentary about the WTO protests in Seattle, will appear at Cascadia Community College on Wednesday, May 24, from 11am to 1:30pm in Room UW2 005. She will screen her new film, Granito de Arena, a documentary about anti-globalization movements in Mexico preserving local education. The public is invited and there is no charge to attend.

Following a screening, she will take part in a symposium, Seeing Against the Grain, on media activism and political documentary film. Panelists will include film scholars and activists from Cascadia Community College and UW Bothell.

Former students at Cascadia Community College have worked on Ms. Freidberg’s films.

This event is sponsored by the Theory/Politics/Critique Collective (TPC, a Cascadia Community College student club), The Teaching and Learning Academy (TLA), and The Global Human Rights Alliance (GHRA).

For more information, please contact Stephanie Skourtes: sskourtes@cascadia.edu.

For a map or driving directions, please see: www.cascadia.edu.

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