MillerComm Lecture Series: "Flame: Screening and discussion with Simon Bright and Ingrid Sinclair"
- Sponsor
- Center for Advanced Study MillerComm with co-sponsor Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity and others
- Speaker
- Simon Bright and Ingrid Sinclair
- Cost
- Free and open to the public
Ingrid Sinclair’s feature-length film Flame (1986) tells the story of two young African women who join the liberation struggle for Zimbabwe in the 1970s. The film follows Flame and Liberty as they are faced with sexual harassment by male freedom fighters and later, by the patriarchy of the newly liberated Zimbabwe. Flame was a Cannes Film Festival selection and winner of many international awards including the Human Rights Watch Nestor Almendros Award. The film was initially banned and then subjected to censorship in Zimbabwe itself.
Professor Terri Barnes (History) and Producer Simon Bright will join the filmmaker in a discussion following the screening.
Hosted by: Center for African Studies
In conjunction with: Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity, Charles and Millicent Marshall Library Endowment Fund, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, College of Media, Department of Gender & Women's Studies, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Humanities Research Institute, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, Spurlock Museum, University Library