CHARLESTON — Filmmaker Ellen Bruno has spent the last 25 years focusing her attention on human rights issues around the world.
The award-winning director and relief worker will discuss her work and show clips of her films at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Eastern Illinois University’s Tarble Arts Center Atrium.
Bruno’s first documentary film, “Samsara,” was her master’s thesis from Stanford University and documents Cambodian life in the aftermath of Pol Pot’s killing fields.
“Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy” is based on the experience of young Tibetan Buddhist nuns who have been imprisoned and tortured for their nonviolence protests of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The final film of her Asian trilogy is “Sacrifice.” All three films premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Bruno serves on the board of directors of the Buddhist Film Festival, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, The San Francisco Film Society, Ethical Traveler, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
In addition to her extensive film work, Bruno has been an active relief worker, serving in Mexico and southeast Asia. She has worked in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, as field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee and she served for four years as director of the Cambodian Women’s Project for the American Friends Service Committee.
Bruno has been a hospice worker for the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, providing bedside assistance for people dying of AIDS and cancer.
The recipient of numerous national and international awards, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1997. She has been presented fellowships from the Western States Media Arts and a Shenkin Fellowship from Yale University School of Art.
Bruno’s visit to Charleston is sponsored by the English Department and the Tarble Arts Center in celebration of March as Women’s History and Awareness Month. The Table Arts Center is located on south Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue.
The program is presented free and the public is welcome to attend.
The award-winning director and relief worker will discuss her work and show clips of her films at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Eastern Illinois University’s Tarble Arts Center Atrium.
Bruno’s first documentary film, “Samsara,” was her master’s thesis from Stanford University and documents Cambodian life in the aftermath of Pol Pot’s killing fields.
“Satya: A Prayer for the Enemy” is based on the experience of young Tibetan Buddhist nuns who have been imprisoned and tortured for their nonviolence protests of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The final film of her Asian trilogy is “Sacrifice.” All three films premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Bruno serves on the board of directors of the Buddhist Film Festival, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, The San Francisco Film Society, Ethical Traveler, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
In addition to her extensive film work, Bruno has been an active relief worker, serving in Mexico and southeast Asia. She has worked in refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, as field coordinator for the International Rescue Committee and she served for four years as director of the Cambodian Women’s Project for the American Friends Service Committee.
Bruno has been a hospice worker for the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, providing bedside assistance for people dying of AIDS and cancer.
The recipient of numerous national and international awards, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1997. She has been presented fellowships from the Western States Media Arts and a Shenkin Fellowship from Yale University School of Art.
Bruno’s visit to Charleston is sponsored by the English Department and the Tarble Arts Center in celebration of March as Women’s History and Awareness Month. The Table Arts Center is located on south Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue.
The program is presented free and the public is welcome to attend.
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