NC Moving Image Archivists

[Stephanie Stewart <stewarts AT email.unc.edu>]

Greetings list members:

UNC is hosting an event next week to honor filmmaker George Stoney.
Hope to see you there...

An Evening with Documentary Filmmaker George C. Stoney Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
Reception at 5 p.m. | Program at 6 p.m.
Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History
Free and open to the public

Join award-winning documentary filmmaker George C. Stoney for a
screening of clips from his movies and a question-and-answer session
moderated by Tom Rankin, director of the Center for Documentary Studies
at Duke University, on October 16, at 6 p.m., in the Sonja Haynes Stone
Center for Black Culture and History. A reception will precede the
program at 5 p.m.

Stoney is known for more than five decades of socially engaged
filmmaking and teaching. In 2002, the Library of Congress placed his
1952 film “All My Babies” on the National Film Registry. Stoney is a
faculty member at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Stoney’s papers are part of the Southern Historical Collection.

The event is sponsored by the Southern Historical Collection,
University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill; the Center for Documentary Studies
at Duke University; and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

http://www.lib.unc.edu/blogs/news/index.php/2009/09/george-c-stoney-documentary-filmmaker-and-educator-to-speak-oct-16/


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Stephanie Stewart
Moving Image Archivist
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: (919)962-1345
Fax: (919) 962-3594