Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law professor Michael Wong, Penn Law student Gretchen Berland, Yale Medical School professor Carol Jacobsen, University of Michigan professor Margie Smith, Think Tank Films
WHAT: “Building Video Bridges”
WHEN: Oct. 17, 2008
WHERE:
University of Pennsylvania Law School 34th and Chestnut streets
Law students, professors and lawyers in public interest and entertainment will join information-technology specialists and documentary filmmakers to discuss law-genre documentaries and effective ways to use video in practicing law.
The conference will include the premiere showing of the documentary of Shmul Kaplan, an 80-year old disabled Jewish survivor of the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine, whose complicated journey through the U.S. immigration system is told in the film.
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