Marguerite Moritz, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder, recently returned from the Sundance Film Festival where she was part of a production team that won two top awards.
Moritz, the writer on "Scout's Honor," was co-winner of the audience award for Best Documentary and co-winner of the Freedom of Expression Award.
"Tom Shepard, the producer and director, assembled a great team for this project. Several of us were in Park City for the screenings and it was particularly gratifying to get such a positive response from the audience in the state of Utah. Some students got up and asked if the film could be shown in their high schools," Moritz said.
"Scout's Honor" tells the story of a 12-year old scout who launched a nationwide challenge to the anti-gay policies of the Boy Scouts of America.
The film will be screened on the Boulder campus on March 21 at 7 p.m. in Humanities 150. Shepard will be a Hearst Professional-in-Residence at the school at that time.
Moritz was a news and documentary producer before joining the CU-Boulder faculty. She currently teaches a course in Television Documentary at the School of Journalism.
Her documentary "Covering Columbine" premiered on the CU-Boulder campus last month.