Screening and discussion of Suzanne’s Wasserman’s Award-Winning Film
"Thunder in Guyana
Thursday
March 15, 2007
4-5:30 pm
Lown 203
Thunder in Guyana is a documentary film about Janet Rosenberg Jagan, who was elected President of Guyana, South America on December 15th, 1997. She is the first American-born woman to lead a nation. In Guyana, she and husband Cheddi Jagan fought the British and sparked a revolution. Janet, a white Jewish woman from Chicago, is considered the mother of the nation.
“My film tells the story of this extraordinary woman and her adopted homeland by interweaving the threads of my family's history, Janet's incredible life story and the complex history of the little understood country of Guyana. This is accomplished through my unique perspective as an historian and as a relative.”
Suzanne Wasserman
Director,
Film Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
The Martin Weiner Fund for American Studies
The Dean of Arts and Sciences