Screening and Discussion with Tracy Heather Strain: 'Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart'

Date: 

Thursday, February 28, 2019, 4:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Tracy Heather StrainSighted Eyes/Feeling Heart

Film screening followed by Q&A with Director/Producer, Tracy Heather Strain

 

Tracy Heather Strain is an award-winning filmmaker who crafts documentaries and non-fiction media projects through her Boston-based production company, The Film Posse, which she co-founded with her husband and business partner Randall MacLowry. Her credits include films for the PBS series American Experience, Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, Race: The Power of an Illusion and I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African-American Art. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Tracy serves as Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design where she teaches media and screen studies and documentary production. She is the director, producer and writer of Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, the first feature documentary about Lorraine Hansberry which had its world premiere 2017 at the Toronto International Film Festival, television premiere January 2018 on the Emmy-nominated season of the PBS series American Masters and recently won the American Historical Association’s John E. O’Connor Film Award.