Coordinated Community Response

Next Brown Bag Lunch meeting:  Monday, July 26^th

 Gateway on Southside – 1401 20^th Street South, Birmingham

Noon until 1 p.m.

June Mack - UAB Professor, Producer/Director of:  Voices of Youth Violence

"June Mack's films have garnered 22 international awards in film festivals around the world including the Student Academy Awards, The International Television Movie Festival, The Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival, and the Canadian International Film Festival. Her work has been seen on national television as well as festival screenings in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Slovenia and across the U.S. Mack is currently a professor of television and film at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with previous teaching posts at Ohio University, Florida State University Graduate Film Conservatory, and Ringling School of Art and Design.

Mack has worked professionally in music composition, theater directing, dance and choreography, playwriting, screenwriting, film producing and directing. Areas of special interest include film as experiential education and community arts. Mack has worked on more than 50 theater productions and 70 films over the span of her prolific career.

In the film Voices of Youth Violence, [produced and directed by Mack], we hear directly from incarcerated teens, gang members, parents and teachers, and psychologists describing their experiences and concerns about the safety of youth at school, at home and in the streets. The true stories expressed in this film form the basis for the film Youth Violence: Inside the Skin."