Event

Director and film critic Godfrey Cheshire will screen Moving Midway, the documentary he made about the effort to relocate his family's North Carolina plantation home and the ongoing historical relationship to slavery that effort reveals. A conversation with Cheshire and a reception will follow.

Godfrey Cheshire is an award-winning film critic, journalist, screenwriter and filmmaker based in New York City. His writings on film have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Variety, Newsweek, the Village Voice, Interview, Film Comment, Sight & Sound, and Cineaste; he currently writes for RogerEbert.com. His first film as writer-director, a documentary titled Moving Midway, was named one of 2008’s ten best films by the L.A. Weekly and New York magazine. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics and a former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle.