Rory Kennedy, co-founder and president of Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc., will speak about her 1999 award-winning film, “American Hollow,” at Shawnee State University (SSU) on Thursday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in the Flohr Lecture Hall of the SSU Clark Memorial Library.

            The film, which chronicles one year with an eastern Kentucky family caught between century-old tradition and the demands of the modern world, will be shown free to the public the week preceding Kennedy’s appearance on April 12, at noon; April 14, at 4 p.m; and April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Flohr Lecture Hall.

            This event, free and open to the public, is made possible by the Leslie Williams Symposium for the Advancement of Women, the SSU Women’s Forum and the Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture series.

            For more information call (740) 351-3300.