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Award-winning Filmmaker and Author Michael Moore Speaks at Bunker Hill Community College
By StudentFilmmakers.com
posted Sep 15, 2011, 12:00
Michael Moore, the celebrated documentary filmmaker, author and raconteur, speaks at Bunker Hill Community College.
(Boston) Michael Moore, the celebrated documentary filmmaker, author and raconteur,
speaks at Bunker Hill Community College (Thursday, September 15, 2011). Moore
is this year's first speaker in the College's "Compelling Conversations"
series, which is free and open to the public. Moore's visit to BHCC is also
part of a book tour for Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My life, which has
just been released.
Michael Moore became one of the youngest elected officials in Michigan when,
at the age of 18, he won a place on his local school board. When he was 22,
he co-founded and became the editor of the Flint Voice, a nationally recognized
muckraking, alternative newspaper. In 1989, Moore made his first film, the groundbreaking
documentary Roger and Me, which used humor and verve to criticize General Motors.
The film grossed nearly $7 million in the U.S., at that time an unprecedented
sum for a documentary.
Moore went on to direct and produce four of the highest-grossing documentaries
of all time: Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko and Capitalism: A
Love Story. In addition to winning an Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine
and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or for Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore earned
an Emmy for his series, TV Nation. Moore is also one of America's top-selling
authors. In addition to his latest autobiographical book, he also wrote: "Stupid
White Men," "Downsize This," and "Dude, Where's My Country?"
BHCC's "Compelling Conversations" speaker series has brought both
national and international intellectual celebrities to its campus. Past speakers
have included journalist and political commentator Juan Williams, best-selling
author Bob Woodward, and renowned women's rights activist Gloria Steinem.
Resources:
http://www.bhcc.mass.edu/
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