University of Notre Dame FTT Talks presents -The Storytellers: Documenting Reality

Featuring -Tom Bettag, Executive Producer of Nightline, The Koppel Group, and Discovery Networks – ND Class of 1965;

Gita Pullapilly, Documentary Film Producer, Dungby Productions – ND Class of 1999

Friday, October 31, 2008, at 7:30 pm
Browning Cinema, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center

This presentation is an inside look of how expert storytelling shapes reality for TV and film. Tom Bettag shares behind the scenes insight from his longtime, award-winning partnership with Ted Koppel at ABC and Discovery. Gita Pullapilly presents a rough-cut screening of the documentary The Way We Get By. Inside a small airport in central Maine, a group of senior citizens are using handshakes and hugs to play a critical role in the Iraq war. The Way We Get By is an inspirational story about how these handshakes can change a person’s life.

This is a FREE but ticketed event. Call the Ticket Office at 574.631.2800 to reserve tickets.

Sponsored by – iNDustry Alliance: Presented by Notre Dame’s Media and Entertainment Alumni, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre and DeBartolo Performing Arts Center performingarts.nd.edu ftt.nd.edu