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Sketches from behind the Lens: The Unexpected Challenges of Making a Film about Public Health and the Pandemic in the United States today

Tue 10 March

Wolfson College\

In this talk, James Le Sueur will present sections from his new feature film on the pandemic, Seasons of COVID. As a filmmaker working in Nebraska, James began filming in March 2020 and interviewed doctors, journalists, patients, and local public health officials with the plan to make a film titled Four Seasons of COVID. By the end of the first year, he realized that there would be more than four seasons and that the pandemic would have long-term ramifications for America, science, politics, and public health. Seasons of COVID is currently in production. \ \ Speaker: \ James Le Sueur is Samuel Clark Waugh Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has written extensively on anticolonialism and decolonization. He is currently writing a book on the history of national liberation movements in the age of empire. He is also an award-winning filmmaker. His first feature documentary film, The Art of Dissent (2020), focuses on the Czechoslovak dissident movement following the Soviet-led invasion of 1968. It was co-produced by Czech TV and NUtech Ventures. His second feature documentary film, Seasons of COVID, traces the pandemic's turbulent evolution of public health policy on the Great Plains and the rise of the anti-science movement after 2020. He is the owner of Fox Hollow Films, based in Lincoln, Nebraska. \ \ Details: \ This event is open to all and free to attend with no need to book. \ \ Access: \ This event will take place in the Gatsby Room on the first floor of the Chancellor's Centre. It has step-free access with a lift and there is an accessible toilet located each floor of the building. \ \ Contact: \ If you have any questions, please contact our events team - events@wolfson.cam.ac.uk

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