Filmmakers

Mike Hazard, also known as “Media Mike,” is a filmmaker, photographer, poet, and teaching artist whose work reflects a commitment to community life and social justice. He founded the nonprofit Center for International Education in 1975 and has taught people of all ages to express themselves through photography and video. His first film portrayed poet Robert Bly. Hazard produced Jim Northrup: With Reservations (1996), working with cinematographer and editor Mike Rivard to document the Anishinaabe writer’s humor, poetry, activism, and traditional life in northern Minnesota.