Framingham State University Communication Arts Professor Audrey Kali's documentary film Farm and Red Moon will be screened on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at Tufts University followed by a keynote discussion with world-renowned author Dr. Temple Grandin.

Farm and Red Moon follows Professor Audrey Kali as she visits farms and slaughterhouses and meets with experts to reveal the ambiguous moral underbelly of humane animal slaughter. But what starts out as a concern for animals becomes a story about people. What she once saw as senseless acts of violence, she understands as a complicated agricultural system, pursued by decent people fully cognizant of the contradictions and complexity of their actions.

The film features Grandin, a world-renowned author and prominent spokesperson for the humane treatment of livestock and for the neurodiversity movement. She is currently a professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. In addition to authoring numerous scientific papers on animal behavior, she has published several books related to the understanding of autism. Time magazine honored her as one the most influential people in 2010 and in 2017 she was named to the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

The screening and keynote talk will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 6 p.m. in the Jaharis Auditorium, 150 Harrison Avenue Boston, MA. This event is free and open to the community but you must register in advance.

This screening is sponsored by Tufts University, Framingham State University, and Northeastern University.