October 25-27, 2011

Dead Reckoning -- Champlain in America
Film and conversation with Frank Christopher
Featuring Colin Powers, Director of Programming and Production at Mountain Lake PBS and producer of Dead Reckoning
7pm Tuesday, Oct. 25
The Modern Theatre
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Award-winning producer, director, writer, and editor, Frank Christopher has worked on such films as The Battle of Midway (1999), Fei Hu: The Story of Flying Tigers (1999), and Great White Down Under (2000). He is a long-time friend and associate of the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Kenneth S. Greenberg, and has partnered with him to create Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) and the PBS series, Remaking American Medicine (2006). Christopher is the recipient of several awards including, the Blue Ribbon winner at the American Film Festival (1984), the Grand Coral winner at the Festival of Latin American Cinema (1984), and the the Gold Award winner at the Houston International Film Festival (1988), in addition he has been nominated for both an Academy Award (Best Feature Length Documentary, 1984) and an Emmy Award (Outstanding News Documentary Program Achievement, 1987).