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"Our Movement Starts Here" Film Screening
Thursday, September 12, 2024
7:00 pm
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Room C105
Join the Duke Human Rights Center for a screening of the film "Our Movement Starts Here," the first film in the 2024-2025 Rights! Camera! Action! Film Series. "Our Movement Starts Here" is a feature-length documentary film (82 mins) that chronicles the story of a rural, majority Black, community in North Carolina that made history in 1982 by fighting the state’s toxic landfill and consequently sparked the environmental justice movement. The film is currently in the middle of a international film festival run and has already won the History + Best Documentary Film award at the 2024 Long Leaf Film Festival at the North Carolina Museum of History, and Best Feature-Length Film at the 2024 Social and Economic Justice Film Festival in San Francisco.
Post-Screening Panelists
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John Rash is a native of North Carolina and earned his M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University and now works as Assistant Professor of Film Production and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. John is a filmmaker, photographer, and video artist who explores topics of social justice, environment, and cultural outsiders through his creative works and research. |
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Melanie Ho, Professor of Practice in Documentary Expression at the University of Mississippi, is a Vietnamese American filmmaker and writer from Florida and received her MFA from UCSC’s Social Documentation program. Her work focuses on trauma, familial relationships, gender, displacement, and intimacy. Mel works towards amplifying the voices of those on the margins. |