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SUMMARY:Film Screening & Panel Discussion: SEIZED\, directed by UAlbany al
 um Sharon Liese
LOCATION:The Palace Theatre\, 19 Clinton Avenue\, Albany
DESCRIPTION:Screening and panel discussion with UAlbany alum and filmmaker
  Sharon Liese\, Marion County Record editor/publisher Eric Meyer\, and ad
 ditional panelist TBA.\n\nThe Palace Theatre\, 19 Clinton Avenue\, Albany
 \n\n[REGISTRATION REQUIRED]\n\nTo register\, visit: https://www.universe.
 com/events/seized-albany-premiere-tickets-CGBTQ1\n\n(2026\, 94 min.\, U.S
 .\, color). Directed by Sharon Liese.\n\nA 2023 police raid on the Marion
  County Record\, a small-town weekly newspaper\, ignites a fierce debate 
 about freedom of the press\, bringing national and international attentio
 n to the tiny rural community of Marion\, Kansas. Joan Meyer\, the 98-yea
 r-old co-owner of the paper with her son\, Eric Meyer\, died one day afte
 r experiencing the emotional trauma of the raid. The Sundance Institute c
 alled it\, “a must-see documentary about a small-town crisis.”\n\nSharon 
 Liese\, filmmaker and UAlbany alum (Class of 1981)\, is the director of S
 EIZED. Her previous film as co-director was the Emmy Award-winning short 
 documentary\, THE FLAGMAKERS (2022)\, featuring the stories of immigrant 
 and refugee employees at the largest American flag factory in the nation.
 \n\nEric Meyer\, publisher of the Marion County Record\, began working at
  the paper in the fifth grade\, and purchased it together with his parent
 s in 1998. A retired professor of Journalism at the University of Illinoi
 s at Urbana-Champaign\, he served formerly as associate dean of the unive
 rsity's College of Media.\n\nCosponsored by the Times Union\, University 
 at Albany Alumni As\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/fcea6886-1cfb-4b42-bb1
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