Bringing King to China (and MIT) -- a film screening
Kevin McKiernan and Caitrin McKiernan
Fri Jan 13, 06-08:00pm, 66-110
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
"Bringing King to China" is a father's "love letter" to his adult daughter, a young American woman struggling to bring Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream of nonviolence to China, & then back to the US. Her life is thrown into turmoil when she learns, mistakenly, that her father, a journalist covering the war in Iraq, has been killed by a suicide bomber. The filmmaker is Kevin McKiernan. Cinematographers include Oscar-winner Haskell Wexler (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Bound for Glory).
Kevin McKiernan's career as a journalist & filmmaker has taken him to some of the world's most troubled regions, from Nicaragua to Iraq to West Africa; his work has been published by Time, Newsweek and New York Times, and appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. He wrote and co-produced The Spirit of Crazy Horse (PBS Frontline) and wrote, directed and produced Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (PBS Independent Lens).
Cáitrín McKiernan first went to China at age 16 for a study-abroad program. She taught in Beijing after attending Stanford, where she majored in Chinese History and also studied with preeminent King scholar Clay Carson. She is a 2011 graduate of Berkeley Law, University of California.
Web: http://www.bringingkingtochina.com/index.php
Contact: Rebecca Ochoa, rochoa@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for International Studies
Latest update: 20-Dec-2011
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