ANN ARBOR—Laurie Kahn-Leavitt, screenwriter and producer of the 1997 documentary film, “A Midwife’s Tale,” will attend a free public screening of her movie at 7 p.m., March 17 at the University of Michigan’s Modern Languages Building, auditorium 3.

Kahn-Leavitt, who will take questions from the audience after the movie, is on campus as part of the Michigan Initiative for Women’s Health speaker series titled, “Women’s Health: Historical Perspectives and Policy Dilemmas.”

The movie is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, who explores the life of midwife Martha Ballard through Ballard’s diary. The diary reveals Ballard’s struggle to survive in a period of social change, religious conflict and economic boom and bust.

Before starting her own independent production company, Blueberry Hill Productions, Kahn-Leavitt contributed to other historical documentary films including “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954 – 1965,” and “Frontline’s Crisis in Central America.”

The Michigan Initiative for Women’s Health is part of U-M’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

For further information, contact Alisha Faciane Fenty, (734) 764-9537, [email protected]

Institute for Research on Women and Gender[email protected]