Filmmaker Beth Murphy will speak at Meredith College on Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. in Jones Auditorium. Her lecture is titled “Big Ideas, Small Choices.”

 

Murphy is a documentary producer, director, author and university faculty member. In 1999 she founded Principle Pictures, an independent film company committed to giving voice to the voiceless, raising awareness about important social issues, and inspiring education and action through entertainment. She has led production crews to all corners of the world, often in war-torn or developing countries in order to focus on human rights and international issues.

 

As an adjunct professor at Suffolk University and a visiting professor at American University Paris, she has taught courses in covering international crises, the business of international news, and media ethics. She earned a B.A. in History from the University of Connecticut, and an M.A. in International Relations and International Communications from Boston University. She studied French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, and studied documentary filmmaking at George Washington University’s Documentary Center.

 

Her film, “Beyond Belief,” tells the story of two courageous women whose lives were changed after their husbands were killed in the attacks of 9/11. The women decided to go to Afghanistan where the terrorists were trained. Their goal was to meet war widows there, to try to understand the lives of those women, and to try to understand why it happened. Visit www.principlepictures.com/beyondbelief/ to learn more about the film.

 

The lecture, which is sponsored by the Meredith College Convocation Committee and the Broder-Wallace Endowment Fund, is free and open to the public.

 

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Bequest of More Than $1 Million Establishes Scholarship Fund at Meredith
Class of 2013 and Chaplain's Office Unite to Support Orphanages in Africa
Filmmaker Beth Murphy to Speak at Meredith Oct. 18
It's Your Choice: How to Designate Your Annual Gift to Meredith
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