Filmmaker Orlando Bagwell at Black Cinema House

 Jun 04, 2015, 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM
 Black Cinema House, 7200 S. Kimbark Ave., Chicago

Black Death and Life on Film: From Emmett Till to Mike Brown

The Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture.

Black Cinema House, 7200 S. Kimbark Ave, Chicago*

Thursday June 4, 4:30-6p*

*Shuttle departing from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (5733 S. University Ave.) promptly at 4:15pm & returning from Black Cinema House at 6:15pm.

Orlando Bagwell is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have captured the history of violence and movement from slavery to the civil rights and Black power movements and present day stories of race and conflict in contemporary American society. Mr. Bagwell is the Director of the Documentary Program at The University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Some of Bagwell's films include Citizen King, a documentary for PBS about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King; Eyes on the Prize, a 14-part mini-series on the civil rights movement in America; and Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad.  Mr. Bagwell was also a recent director at the Ford Foundation where he oversaw JustFilms, a foundation initiative which supports independent film and digital storytelling projects that explore urgent social justice issues.

This workshop forms part of The Black Death Project, a Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship at the Gray Center with Cathy Cohen (Political Science), Garland Martin Taylor (sculptor), and Orlando Bagwell.