Event: Documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald @ PSU
starting November 19, 2005 Starts: 6:30pm

Documentary filmmaker, Robert Greenwald, will be showing and discussing his Wal-Mart documentary, "The High Cost of Low Price" at Portland State University Saturday, November 19th at 6:30 p.m. Show up early as this will probably fill up!

Greenwold has produced and/or directed more than 50 television movies, miniseries and feature films, including Steal This Movie, a biopic about 60’s activist Abbie Hoffman. Greenwald's films have garnered 25 Emmy nominations, four cable ACE Award nominations, two Golden Globe nominations, the Peabody Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and eight Awards of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board.

His previous documentary, OutFoxed, won the prestigious Youth Documentary Award from the Bergen International Film Festival in Norway, and was released to theaters after its DVD release due to high viewer demand. Greenwald has also received a bevy of other awards from progressive organizations such as Physicians for Social Responsibility and has lectured at Harvard University for the Nieman Fellows Foundation for Journalism.

When: Saturday, November 19th @ 6:30 p.m.

Where: PSU's 5th Ave Cinemas, 510 SW Hall St.

Cost: Admission is free for all. Non-students are welcome to attend and participate.

This event is sponsored by the PSU Rearguard, The PSU Film Commission, and Students for Unity.

For more information contact Rearguard Editor Josh Gross at the.rearguard@gmail.com or the 5th Avenue Cinema at film@pdx.edu

 
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