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Graduate Film Studies Group in Conversation with Brett Story
December 2, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
From November 29 through December 1, GFSG will host a virtual screening of Dr. Story’s 2016 documentary A Prison in Twelve Landscapes. Her film unearths once invisible geographies of the contemporary American prison system, and it is available to UF students, faculty, and non-UF community members here: https://projectr.tv/films/u-florida-screening/61941129d995790001c18bc9Following the screening, on December 2 Dr. Story will speak with us during a virtual interview from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. EST. The Zoom invite information has been provided below, so mark your calendars!https://ufl.zoom.us/j/93692219447?pwd=Mk84eHNKVHJSWEl6KzNTZXNuL2ZEUT09Brett Story is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Image Arts at Ryerson University. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals widely, including at CPH-DOX, SXSW, Hot Docs and Sheffield Doc Fest. She is the director of the award-winning films The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019), among other films, and author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America.
This event series is co-sponsored by the UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere.