Filmmaker Robert A. Emmons, Jr.
Thursday, September 23, at 7 p.m., at the Collingswood Public Library

Dr. Robert A. Emmons, Jr. (Collingswood High Class of 1993) will be showing his most recent film, "De Luxe: The Tale of the Blue Comet."

Emmons is a digital documentary filmmaker focusing on American popular culture. His film, Goodwill (2007) was part of the Smithsonian exhibition, Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement at the New Jersey Historical Society, and won "Best Homegrown Documentary Feature" at the 2008 Garden State Film Festival. In 2009 he received Mexico's Lindbergh-Carranza International Goodwill Award as a "Messenger of Peace" for his work on Goodwill. Emmons teaches film, new media, and comics history at Rutgers University-Camden where he is also the Associate Director of the Honors College.