Thursday, Feb. 21 | 3-4:30 p.m. | Langseth 104 This Black History Month, the Black Student Union and MSUM Women’s Center come together for a screening of this powerful award-winning documentary at 3 p.m. in Langseth 104. While many know of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, fewer know the history of the trailblazing black women leaders who powered the Civil Rights movement. This film captures […]
Friday, Nov. 16 | 2 p.m. | King 110 The SoMAD Department is collaborating with the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to host a screening of the 2018 documentary, 1200+. 1200+ covers the current Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis and movement, which has very specific local importance. Producer, Sheila North, Grand Chief of the Manitoba Keewantinowi Okimakanak Tribe, Director Leonard […]
Professor Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, School of Media Arts & Design, was named in the Official Selections of the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. K-Nelson’s film Hús (House) was included in the highly competitive Documentary Shorts Competition. She represented her film at the screening on Sunday, Jan. 21. The film will play again on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Hús is a meditation on emigration […]
Monday, Sept. 18 | 5-7 p.m. | LI 103 Originally funded by a Kickstarter campaign and now touring college campuses internationally, the documentary Yeah Maybe, No (2017) follows Blake, a young gay man who is coming to terms with a history of multiple sexual assaults. After campus activists bring attention to consent at Reed College, Blake realizes that his early sexual encounters were […]
Wednesday, Nov. 16 | 7 p.m. | Langseth 104 Dragon Entertainment Group is having a showing of Two Spirits, a thought provoking documentary following a young Native American man who is murdered for expressing his true gender identity. This event is on Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in Langseth 104.