Director, writer and producer Peter Frumkin will appear at Carleton College on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum. The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow at Carleton for the week of Oct. 20, Frumkin will speak on the state of documentary filmmaking. This event is free and open to the public.
Peter Frumkin has been a director, writer, and producer of documentaries and non-fiction media for over 30 years. His works have been broadcast on PBS, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and Courtroom Television. His documentary subjects have included history, culture, science and engineering, health care policy, environmental policy, and medical ethics.
His recent work includes AboutFace, a website about and for American military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder; Tobacco Roads, an investigation into tobacco smuggling in the Balkans; and Caring for Your Parents, which follows five Rhode Island families as they face the challenges of caring for ailing elderly parents. Frumkin’s accomplishments include the award winning film, Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home for the PBS American Masters series; and his nomination for a national Emmy for his producing work on Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
Frumkin is also an accomplished proposal writer as well as an educator, who has led workshops on video-journalism in developing democracies and teaching university classes. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and is president of Peter Frumkin Productions, LLC in Boston, Massachusetts. More at www.frumkinpro.net.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of English. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4322. The Gould Library is accessible via Highway 19 in Northfield.
