Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer 鈥揻eaturing Chanelle Lajoie (Filmmaker & McGill BCL/JD student)
Organized in collaboration with the Sciences Po Law School, 鈥楨ating Popcorn like a Lawyer鈥� is a seminar series that seeks to establish a continuous dialogue between the fields of law and film.聽
For our fall session, we have invited Chanelle Lajoie (Filmmaker & McGill BCL/JD student) for a special screening and discussion of their short films Metis Femme Bodies (2019), Grand Mother Tongue (2020), and Land (Ab)use (2022), accompanied by Kevin Lee Burton鈥檚 short film, Nikamowin (song) (2007).聽聽
Chanelle Lajoie is a Queer Red River Me虂tis and Swampy Cree Feminist and Futurist from Treaty 1 Territory. They are a guest on鈥疶iohti:a虂ke Territory while鈥痯ursuing legal studies at 香蕉视频.鈥疢oving-image invites balance in their life by honoring and engaging with the communities to which they belong. Their ties to community are explored in their films, which invite reflection and discussion on Spirit, gender, sexuality, femininity, Indigeneity, language, community, the Anthropocene, and trust building.聽聽
Free event/No registration. Open to all! Come as you are! Popcorn and Bepsi will be served!聽
The Law and Film team:鈥�
Edward van Daalen (McGill Faculty of Law)鈥�
Mathilde Baril-Jannard (McGill Faculty of Law)聽
eatingpopcornlikealawyer [at] gmail.com鈥�
