Green Green Water
Film and Discussion with Dawn Mikkelson and Jamie Lee
Wednesday, 19 Oct 2005 at 7:00 pm – 127 Curtiss Hall Auditorium
Dawn Mikkelson and Jamie Lee, award-winning filmmakers with Aquaries Media Corp will show their film, Green Green Water, a documentary about hydroelectric power and its impact on the lives of thousands of Aboriginal people in northern Manitoba. Mikkelson and Lee also produced and directed THIS obedience, a film to be broadcast on PBS stations across the United States this fall, which won a prestigious 2002 Women in Film Finishing Fund grant and several other awards. A discussion with the filmmakers will follow the film's screening.Cosponsored By:
- SUB Films
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