Monday, January 03, 2005

Jan. 3, 2005

Wilmington, N.C. – Lynne Sachs, a prize-winning documentary filmmaker who has been awarded film grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerome Foundation, will give a talk at 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 7 in Morton Hall’s Bryan Auditorium on the University of North Carolina Wilmington campus.

Sachs will talk about the evolution of her career and screen her two films: Which Way is East: Notebooks from Vietnam and Investigation of a Flame. Which Way is East is about her journey to Vietnam to visit her sister, Dana Sachs, author and UNCW English department instructor. The film exposes some of what is missing from the textbooks and TV news about America's longest war. Investigation of a Flame is an intimate, experimental portrait of the Catonsville Nine, a disparate band of Vietnam War peace activists who chose to break the law in a defiant poetic act of civil disobedience. These films have earned numerous awards from such places as the Back Maria Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Athens Film Festival and the Atlanta Film Festival. This event is free and open to the public.

For more information on the Friday Moviemakers Series or to receive e-mail notices of upcoming events, visit the UNCW Film Studies Department Web site at www.uncw.edu/filmstudies, e-mail filmstudies@uncw.edu or phone 910/962-7502.