Ross Movie Night, Wednesday, June 19th, 7 - 9:30 p.m. (free admission)

The University Libraries will host Animating History: Stories on the Making of Freedom, a mini-film festival for the Juneteenth Celebration 2024. This event is free and open to the public. Two film shorts Anna and The Diary of Michael Shiner, and a feature film The Bell Affair will be screened. Based on the award-winning book A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War by William Thomas (History), each film tells the human story of freedom-making initiated by enslaved people in the nineteenth century and how each one strives to achieve and maintain freedom.

Enjoy a post-screening Q&A with the filmmakers: Kwakiutl L. Dreher, Director and co-writer; William Thomas, Historian and co-writer, and Michael Burton, Producer and Art Director.

For more information click the link here: https://research.unl.edu/blog/anna-filmmakers-begin-new-doc-the-bell-affair

Film Shorts:
• Anna (11:15 minutes)
• The Diary of Michael Shiner (16:40 minutes)
Trailer: https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=The+diary+of+Michael+Shiner&type=E210US714G0#id=1&vid=8d1c9bd49b93f7f8fe533bc06b0546ca&action=click

[15 MINUTE INTERMISSION]

Feature Film:
• The Bell Affair (1 hour 25 mins)
http://www.animatinghistory.com/bellaffair/credits

Hosted by University Libraries and The Ross Media Arts Center