Austin Founder Lions Club

Canine Soldiers-the Militarization of Love

  • 08 Nov 2018
  • 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
  • TSBVI, 1100 W 45th Street, Building 603, Austin TX 78756

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Canine Soldiers,
the Militarization of Love


 Nancy Schiesari 
Producer/Director/Cinematographer
Introduced by Lion Mac Ragsdale


Our program will be to celebrate veterans in recognition of Veterans Day coming up on Nov. 11th. In the documentary film Canine Soldiers, Producer/Director/ Cinematographer Nancy Schiesari features these unsung heroes of the battlefield and their handlers.

About our speaker: 

Nancy is an experienced director, producer and cinematographer on both broadcast documentaries and award winning independent films.  Her latest full-length documentary, Canine Soldiers, the Militarization of Love, premiered at the Austin Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS over Memorial Day weekend, 2017. She also directed and produced feature length documentaries, Cactus Jack, Lone Star on Capitol Hill, PBS, Tattooed Under Fire, PBS, Hansel Mieth-Vagabond Photographer (Independent Lens) and History Man, a half hour profile on Martin Scorsese for BBC 4, London.

Nancy comes with twenty years’ experience as a Director of Photography on over 30 documentaries and feature films broadcast for England’s Channel 4, BBC, ABC, National Geographic, and PBS.  She has filmed in Europe, the US, Africa, India, Pakistan, Iceland, and Latin America. She was nominated for a Television Emmy for outstanding cinematography on The Human Face, (producer John Cleese). Among her work as cinematographer is Barbara Sonneborn’s Oscar nominated Regret to Inform, winner best documentary at Sundance, and Pratibha Parmar and Alice Walker’s Warrior Marks, Channel Four, London. Nancy graduated with an MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, and is a professor in production in the Radio –Television and Film Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She raised two wonderful children in Austin, Eleanor Cheetham and Felix Turton.


Featured Lunch Meal $12:

Chicken Fried Chicken

Mashed Potatoes

Carrots

Apple Cobbler


Optional Lunch Meal $12:
Chef Salad

Meals provided by Manny Sifuentes, manager at Cafe del Rio, a business staffed by the Texas Commission for the Blind.
    
Please register by 5 p.m. on Tuesday

We order meals based on your reservations and must pay for them even if you do not show up.
If you need to change or cancel your reservation, please call 512-441-1555.

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