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Filmmaker Lee Mun Wah visits campus Nov. 8 |
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On Saturday, Nov. 8, nationally acclaimed lecturer and trainer Lee Mun Wah will visit campus to screen and discuss his film “Last Chance Eden.” The film, which will be shown at 5 p.m. in Multipurpose Room B of the Trabant University Center, is a documentary that features nine women and men discussing the effects of racism and sexism in their families. After the film, Wah will hold an informal discussion at a reception in the University Gallery. For more than 25 years, Wah was a special education teacher in the San Francisco United School District. He is now a documentary filmmaker, author, performing poet and community therapist. Previous films by Wah include “Stolen Ground,” a documentary on Asian Americans that won the San Francisco International Film Festival’s certificate of merit award, and “The Color of Fear,” another culturally focused documentary that won the National Education Media Network’s best social documentary award for 1995. Wah also won acclaim for his 1998 film “Walking Each Other Home,” a documentary that won the prestigious Cindy International Film Festival’s silver medal for best social issues award. Wah’s Nov. 8 visit to campus is sponsored by Residence Life, the Office of Multicultural Programs, the University Gallery and the Office of Women’s Affairs. Both the screening and lecture are free and open to the public. For more information, call Frank Newton at Contact: Becca Hutchinson, (302) 831-1418 |