Join us for Faculty Film Screening and Discussion on March 17 at 12:00 pm in Drown 010!
Kwakiutl L. Dreher is a director, screenwriter, playwright, actor, and author from South Carolina. Dreher wrote the screenplay, Anna (2018), and plays the mother, Nan, to the main character in the story. Anna won Best Animation at the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles and the research on the film received the Mary L. Dudziak Digital Legal History Prize. She directed, co-wrote, and -produced The Bell Affair, a feature-length film based on the true story of Daniel and Mary Bell, an enslaved family who initiated the largest escape to freedom in the history of the nation. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Bell Affair won Best Animation in the Prince George’s County Film Festival; received a Certificate of Nomination for International Award – Experimental in the Cannes at the Silk Roads Film Festival; and won 2022 Creative Work of the Year by NuTech Ventures at the University of Nebraska.
Please RSVP here. Lunch will be provided.