Please join us for a moderated discussion with award winning documentary filmmaker Tracey Deer (Mohawk Girls, Club Native) on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 12:30 in Arts W 120, who will be discussing the importance of contemporary documentary practices for issues of social justice, first nations identity and politics and contemporary culture. Please see the attached flyer for more details. This event is part two of a three part series, "Here Now: Contemporary First Nations Culture and Media"; part three will feature filmmakers Norman Cohn and Marie-Helene Cousineau of Isuma Productions (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner and Before Tomorrow) on Nov. 25. For more information, please contact Professor Alanna Thain (Alanna.Thain [at] mcgill.ca). This event is made possible by the generous support of the Departments of English and Art History and Communications, Media@McGill, the Institute for Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.