Join filmmaker Craig Dudnick for a screening of Alice’s Ordinary People, a documentary about Alice Tregay, an unsung heroine of the Civil Rights Movement. Her remarkable story spans the historic marches of Dr. King through the election of Barack Obama, and her great contribution in the field of politics is the thread which connects the two. A talk and discussion led by the filmmaker, Craig Dudnick, will follow.

Craig Dudnick is a 1980 graduate of Northwestern University.  In 1982, he received a national award for his camerawork on the syndicated television program, PM Magazine.  The following year, he founded Imagine Video Productions®, eventually gaining clients from Europe, Japan, and at ABC News.  For the latter he covered the Democratic National Convention in 1996 (as news cinematographer).

While an undergraduate at Northwestern, Craig grew close to Mrs. Viola Hillsman and her husband Tinsley, with whom he worked in the kitchen of a campus fraternity.  His lifelong friendship with the couple was the subject of a feature on the NPR radio program, “The Story with Dick Gordon.”

After Mrs. Hillsman passed away at age 100, a number of her friends shared personal accounts of their struggles against racism in Evanston, Illinois, which became the basis of Craig’s documentary, Evanston’s Living History.

Fellow Evanstonian Alice Tregay liked the film and asked Craig to make a second documentary--this one about the Chicago Freedom Movement.  The result was Alice’s Ordinary People.

Alice’s Ordinary People and Evanston’s Living History have been acquired by hundreds of public and university libraries worldwide.