Thursday, October 17, 2024

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  • 7:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  Ebert Center Screening: "Kartemquin’s Labor Films: Stories of Working in America"

  Join us for "Kartemquin’s Labor Films: Stories of Working in America," which will screen The Last Pullman Car and scenes from Hard Earned, a six-part Al Jazeera series about living on low-wage work in America. A brief Q&A will follow. Roger Ebert Lecture presenter Patricia Aufderheide and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films will share some background about the screenings.

  • Film Screening

Friday, October 18, 2024

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  • 2:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

  Roger Ebert Lecture: "Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy: How Kartemquin’s Storytelling Works for Stronger Publics"

  Join us for the Roger Ebert Lecture "Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy: How Kartemquin’s Storytelling Works for Stronger Publics," presented by Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor of Communication Studies at American University in Washington, D.C. Presented by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.

  • Lecture