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Landiss Lecture Series: Martin Doblmeier

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Shamblin Theatre

Martin Doblmeier

The Landiss Lecture Series will feature Emmy-winning film director Martin Doblmeier this year in a special crossover event with Lipscomb’s HumanDocs Film Series on Feb. 12 in the Shamblin Theatre. It is free and open to the public.

Presented by the Department of English and Modern Languages, the Landiss Lecture Series, which was established by Morris Landiss in 1984, has brought programs from outstanding writers to the Lipscomb campus in an effort to stimulate intellectual growth for the Lipscomb and greater Nashville community for nearly three decades. HumanDocs screens a series of social-justice documentaries at Lipscomb each semester.

The event will feature Doblmeier’s film “Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story” with a lecture by Doblmeier at 3:30 p.m. and a showing of the film followed by a talk-back with the director at 7 p.m.

Doblmeier has produced more than 30 award-winning films that have aired on PBS, ABC, NBC, the BBC and the History Channel. He has two Emmy Awards, and his films include the highly acclaimed “Bonhoeffer,” a documentary about German theologian and Nazi resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and “The Power of Forgiveness,” which included Elie Wiesel, Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh and others.

He is the founder and president of Journey Films, a film and television production company in Alexandria, Va., which he launched to produce major documentary films for national broadcast.

“Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story” profiles Dorothy Day, an American journalist, social activist and Catholic convert who stood for what she believed and helped start a movement in the early 1900s until her death in 1980. This extraordinary woman began the Catholic Worker Movement, which began as a newspaper to expose rampant injustices during the Great Depression and eventually expanded to become a network of houses of hospitality that is still going strong today.

For more information, contact Kenna Tomberlin in the Department of English and Modern Languages at kenna.tomberlin@lipscomb.edu.