Run Granny Run: Calendar : Political Science : UMass Lowell

Film director Marlo Poras will present her HBO documentary film, Run Granny Run (2006), which recently won the Audience Award at the 2007 South by Southwest Film Festival. Meet Doris "Granny D" Haddock, the nation's oldest political newcomer. In 2004, five years after walking across America to support campaign finance reform, the 94-year-old Democrat made fresh headlines - by running for U.S. Senate in her home state of New Hampshire. With just four months until Election Day, Granny D and her staff crafted a feisty, exhausting campaign that personified her ideals of a government of, by and for the people. A tale of doggedness vs. dollars, grit vs. greenbacks, Run Granny Run is a portrait of a remarkable woman - and an exploration of our fragile democracy in the corporate age.