Join Northland College visiting professor Doug Pray on Saturday evening for a sneak preview of his newest documentary film, “Louder Than Guns” at the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. The screening will kick off Doug’s three-day documentary film-making course (IDS 150 01), but the screening itself is open to all Northland…
…College students to create a thirty-minute documentary, called “From Wisconsin with Love,” celebrating the Lake Superior region’s bountiful harvest, including wild rice, and traditional life ways. The documentary will portray all aspects of the harvest season including the spiritual, economic, physical and legal aspects, while incorporating the flavor and faces…
Northland College Filmmaker in Residence Paulette Moore will be screening and discussing The Spirit of Standing Rock, her documentary featuring activists known as Water Protectors, this week in Washington D.C., Baltimore, Maryland, and Buffalo, New York Water Protectors have stood with Standing Rock Sioux leaders in North Dakota to defend…
…films under the direction of visiting lecturer Paulette Moore. Marissa continues to work with Moore outside the classroom on a documentary premiering in April. “By presenting images that the audience can relate to, film can draw on people’s emotions to create change and action,” Marissa explains. Marissa is looking forward…
…Saturday, May 14, with the 7 p.m. film screening of From Wisconsin With Love at the Minnesota Street Market. The film provides the perspective of the northern Wisconsin community that in 2014 beat back what would have been the world’s largest open-pit taconite mine in pristine forest on the shores…
…and writer with Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, ABC and other national and international media outlets. Moore collaborated with YES! Magazine co-founder and editor-at-large Sarah van Gelder to create this documentary from their footage and reporting from Standing Rock camps gathered in the fall of 2016. They chronicled activists known…
…of the Bad River/Kakagon Sloughs. Documentary screenings will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Mike Wiggins, former Bad River chairman, John Shepard, filmmaker, and Matt Hudson, Burke Center associate director, moderated by Peter Annin, Burke Center director. The event is free, open to the public, and refreshments will be…
As an environmental specialist with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources 2007 to 2014, Dan Norris ’05 directed over $1 million of long-term air sampling of the Bridgeton Landfill in St. Louis, Missouri—a long, complicated, and continuing environmental story outlined in the 2018 HBO documentary, “Atomic Homefront.” Filmmakers interviewed Norris,…
…Shawl Coalition participates in powwow outreach across the state and country to increase utilization of screening services and exams while also providing support for patience and education for the greater community. Organizers have also added the Switch Dance, another dance aimed at education. The Switch Dance remembers the high renown…
…the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) areas in the Native American student body in high schools, colleges and graduate school. “For us to start a new AISES chapter and have a student not only attend the national conference, make it through the initial screening stage for presentations, and then…
