“Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing” will be shown at Knight Auditorium on March 28th
Urbana, Ill. — A free screening of the documentary film by a Southern Illinois University Carbondale professor that retraces the battle over commercial logging within the Shawnee National Forest more than three decades ago will be shown next week in Champaign.
“Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing” by Cade Bursell, a professor in SIU Carbondale’s School of Media Arts, will be shown on Monday, March 28th, 6 pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum of World Cultures University of Illinois Campus 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana.
“The Illinois Community Media Project is excited to host filmmaker Cade Bursell and several activist to address the context of climate change in Illinois, what happens to land, and the power of people organize in response to these conditions”, says Angela Aguayo, Professor of Media and Cinema Studies At the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.” I’m looking forward to this important post-screening discussion,”
Bursell, along with local environmental activists who participated in the protests in the late 1980s and early 1990s and who remain active today will also be present for a panel discussion and Q&A after the film.
The film trailer is available for viewing. The film is free and open to the public
The film has been invited to screen at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale University on April 1 and the Athens International Film+Video Festival, April 2 and April 5.
Media Contact: Angela Aguayo ajaquayo@illinois.edu or Cade Bursell cbursell@siu.edu
or Steve Taylor steve@globaljusticeecology.org
