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Student work: Lily Cowles' senior thesis documentary

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By Lily Cowles on May 1, 2009, 1:07 p.m.
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Religion major Lily Cowles learned Portuguese and filmmaking in just one year to create her senior thesis documentary on the Mazione Church in Mozambique.

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