Grace Lee
Wednesday, November 18
12-2pm
Colloquium Room, Contemporary Art Center
Award winning filmmaker and producer (‘American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’, Peabody Award, Sundance Fellow) will be giving a noontime lecture discussing her work in documentary and narrative filmmaking, followed by a screening of her experimental documentary and narrative fusion feature ‘Janeane from Des Moines.’
In ‘Janeane from Des Moines’ a conservative Iowa housewife’s personal and political convictions are severely tested as she seeks answers from the Republican presidential candidates leading up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses.