The Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies
Events
Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies
The Center supports documentary events and experiments around images, sound and the mixed media environment of the Internet. The Center also supports student projects dedicated to producing documentary work in and around Loyola University Chicago.Ongoing Student Projects
Current Events
SPACE GHOST
Dec. 3, 2008, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m
Lake Shore Campus. Life Science Auditorium, LSB 142
Laurie Jo Reynold's film Space Ghost (2007) examines the prison system's complicated impact on individuals, families, and communities. Weaving together pop cultural imagery and prison phone conversations, Reynold's collage-like Space Ghost explores confinement and isolation in the lives of astronauts and the imprisoned.
Stateville Speaks Presentation with Invited Guests
December 10th, 2008 3:00-5:30 pm
Rubloff Auditorium, 25 East Pearson St.
Stateville Speaks is a new course shared by the programs in Journalism, Communication 
Studies, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Fine & Performing Arts. The course is taught by filmmaker and prisoner's advocate Laurie Jo Reynolds. Students work together to edit, design and publish an issue of "Stateville Speaks", written in collaboration with current Illinois prisoners about topics in criminal justice and prison life. See www.illinoisprisontalk.com for past issues.
Former prisoners and other guests will be invited to attend the presentation and party for the new issue and web site of "Stateville Speaks".
Studies, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Fine & Performing Arts. The course is taught by filmmaker and prisoner's advocate Laurie Jo Reynolds. Students work together to edit, design and publish an issue of "Stateville Speaks", written in collaboration with current Illinois prisoners about topics in criminal justice and prison life. See www.illinoisprisontalk.com for past issues.Events 2007-2008
April 7, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Lake Shore Campus, Damen Hall Auditorium
KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Stay for the Q&A session following the film to learn about the political, social, and environmental impacts of the subsidized agricultural corn industry.
Contact: Gina Lettiere, glettie@luc.edu for more information.
This screening of KING CORN is sponsored by Alumni Relations, CUERP, University Ministry, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Ethics, Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies, the Gannon Center, the School of Business Administration, and the Student Environmental Alliance
April 7, 2008, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Lake Shore Campus, Damen Hall Auditorium
KING CORN is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. Stay for the Q&A session following the film to learn about the political, social, and environmental impacts of the subsidized agricultural corn industry.
Contact: Gina Lettiere, glettie@luc.edu for more information.
This screening of KING CORN is sponsored by Alumni Relations, CUERP, University Ministry, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for Ethics, Center for Global Media and Documentary Studies, the Gannon Center, the School of Business Administration, and the Student Environmental Alliance
The Robben Island Singers Documentary Film-in-Progress and Singing Event
February 26. 2008
Life Sciences Auditorium 4:00-6:00pm
Filmmaker 
and concert director, Jeff Spitz, and Muntu Nxumalo, musical director of the Robben Island Singers will be at LSC, Life Sciences Auditorium, on Feb. 26th, from 4-6 PM to close the events of Black History Month with a film screening and singing event.
In the film, three ex-political prisoners from South Africa narrate their own journeys from a prison island with Nelson Mandela to a musical triumph in America. Film clips will trigger lively discussion focusing on various topics including: South African history; human rights; terrorism; liberation; documentary filmmaking; a capella singing; the role of religion in South Africa's freedom struggle.
See www.robbenislandsingers.com for more info.
Come Walk in My Shoes
Written and Directed by Robin Smith
January 24, 2008
Simpson Hall, Multipurpose Room, 11:30am-1:30pm
Come Walk in My Shoes is a documentary film that details the journey of the honorable John R. Lewis (D-GA) who leads colleagues from the House and Senate on an emotional pilgrimage to the sacred sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. The journey begins in Montgomery where an 18 year-old Lewis first met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ends in Selma on the Edmund Pettus Bridge where the future congressman was brutally beaten as he led a march for the right to vote.
This event is part of Loyola University's Martin Luther King Day Celebrations: Dreaming of Justice. The events sponsored by the Department of Student Diversity & MulticulturalAffairs, Division of Mission & Ministry and Public Affairs. For additional information, please contact Kevin Huie at 773-508-3335 or khuie@luc.edu.
Nice Bombs (2006)
by Usama Alshaibi
November 14, 2007
Crown Center, 3:30PM
The War in Iraq has gone on longer than the United States’ participation in World War II. Early on, Usama Alshaibi and his wife returned to Baghdad to reconnect with his home country and his family and to observe the US intervention in Iraq up close. Usama is a filmmaker living in Chicago. His film won first prize at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival and has been favorably reviewed in newspapers across the country.
Co-sponsored with Center of Ethics, Muslim Students Association, Ministry, Theology Dept., Islamic World Studies Program.
Past Events
2006-2007—I-55: from New Orleans to Chicago-- Les Blank, Wetlands Panel
2005-2006—Laramie, Wyoming, Music Journalism, Nonviolent Resistance, and Doulas
Center Event Archive
For previous events sponsored by the center, please click here.
