News 2008

 


"100-Mile Film Series: Sustainable Cinema" a film series featuring documentaries and narrative films involving producers, directors, subjects and/or locations within 100 miles of Pittsboro, NC. All screenings take place at The General Store Café in downtown Pittsboro two Tuesdays a month. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students. Proceeds benefit ChathamArts and our arts & education programs. We advise coming early for a good seat and enjoying dinner before or during the screenings!


JULY 8th • 7:30 PM
"Anytown, NC: Pittsboro" Directors/Producers: Students from Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

JULY 22nd • 7:30 PM
"Monster Road" Director/Producer Brett Ingram. Greensboro

AUGUST 12th • 7:30 PM
"Willow Garden" with selected shorts by Director/Producer Jim Haverkamp, Durham

AUGUST 26th • 7:30 PM
"A Shoe for Your Foot: A Performance by Paperhand Puppet Intervention"
Director/Producer Mark Barroso, Pittsboro

SEPTEMBER 16th • 7:30 PM
"Grassroots Stages" Director/Producer Mike O'Connell, Haw River Films, Pittsboro
A unique musicalmentary exploring the sites and sounds of the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance. Musical styles range from Americana Roots Rock, Old time, Zydeco, Gospel and World Music. The film includes performances by Donna The Buffalo, Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band, John Specker, The Horse Flies, The Jennie Stearns Band, Samite of Uganda and The Flying Clouds. Live musical performances and interviews with festival organizers and volunteers explore this organizations musical interpretation of the American Dream. Q&A with filmmaker Mike O'Connell, and festival organizer Jordan Puryear.


"Alan & Suja"

"Boy with a Wet Thumb"

"Bars and Tones"




SEPTEMBER 23rd • 7:30 PM
"Show Us Your Shorts"
An eclectic and thought provoking array of short films
submitted by local talent featuring:

• BOY WITH A WET THUMB by Nic Beery
• GEMINI WORLD by Erika Simon
• ALAN & SUJA and SADIE TURNS SEVEN by Todd Tinkham
• BARS & TONES EXPERIMENT by Nicole Triche and
• SIFT by Sally Van Gorder

OCTOBER 14th • 7:30 PM
"Wild Caught: The Life and Struggles of an American Fishing Town" Director/Producer Matthew Barr, Greensboro. A feature-length documentary that explores the lives of small-scale commercial fishermen living in Snead’s Ferry, North Carolina. For over 300 years the fishermen have made a precarious living catching shrimp, clams and fin-fish; now, the forces of globalization, imports, rising fuel prices and explosive coastal growth are threatening this hard-fought and deeply ingrained way of life. They don’t do it for the money—they fish because they have to, because they love the freedom. They are some of the last true independent spirits left in America, and their struggles to keep afloat in Snead’s Ferry is symbolic of what is going on around the country, and around the planet. Q&A with filmmaker Matthew Barr. www.unheardvoicesproject.org .

OCTOBER 28th • 7:30 PM
Suspenseful, Scary, Silly & Spooky Short FIlms from local talent.

a brush with murderA BRUSH WITH MURDER- Deception can be deadly when a detective and his wife get caught up in a blackmail scheme after the death of a local artist. Filmed in Apex, NC by BackFocus Films, this 28-minute murder-mystery was shot in the classic B&W film noir style of the 30's.

What a Frock
WHAT THE FROCK is a short film about life, death, betrayal, and the search for the perfect dress. This Tinkhamtown Production's short filmed in Durham and Chapel Hill premiered at the 2007 Palm Springs International Shorts Festival. Jeffrey Moore, the star of this film, also wrote the script. Also from from Chapel Hill Producer Todd Tinkham -

and then there were nun!
AND THEN THERE WERE NUN! Here's a recipe for disaster: One slacker boy. One angry girl. A heavy dose of Catholic guilt. Shake well. Serve. Watch out!

BAPTISM This 7-minute film tells the story of a woman who travels back to her hometown to confront her past and fulfill her duty to religious ceremony. "Baptism" was a collaboration between Bynum community members and local film production crew and was made for the "48 Hour Film Festival", where teams are given a genre, character name, prop, and line of dialogue, then have 48 hours to write, shoot, edit and deliver the finished film. Produced and directed by Luke Barrow & John Winecker.

NOVEMBER 18th (note start time change 7:00 PM)
"The Guestworker" Co-Directors/Producers: Cynthia Hill, Durham; Charles Thompson, Chapel Hill. The Guestworker tells the story of Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno, a 66-year old Mexican farmer who has been coming to the U.S. since the 1960s as a farm laborer. He is some twenty to forty years older than all the thousands of Mexican men who work in today’s United States’ H2A Guest Worker program started in 1986. With revealing insight, filmmakers Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson embark on an intimate exploration of Cande during one particularly grueling season while delving into this little-known guest worker program now already twenty years in existence. A second free community outreach screening will be held at The NC Arts Incubator downtown Siler City, Friday November 14th at 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored with the Southern Documentary Fund. Post-Q&A with filmmakers and Ronald Garcia-Fogarty of the Hispanic Liaison of Chatham County. www.theguestworker.com.

NOVEMBER 25th • 7:00 PM
millworker the documentary"Millworker: The Documentary"
Director/Producer Linda Booker, Pittsboro. This 40-minute documentary chronicles the creation and year-long production of the play Millworker written by Ellen Bland and Drew Lasater and directed by Ellen Bland. This magical theatre production from Chatham County, featuring local talent and then CCCC theatre students, not only won the hearts of critics and audiences across the state but connected its actors and community to their past. Shown with "Leaving Tracks", a short documentary by Siler City native Ryan Andrews about the Bonlee & Western Railroad. www.bythebrookfilms.com/millworker.htm

DECEMBER 9th • 7:00 PM
"Gatewood: Facing the White Canvas" Co-Directors/Producers: David Kasper, Carlyle Poteat, Chapel Hill. In this revealing documentary, Maud Gatewood gives us insight into the determination and creative process that have led to her becoming one of the most admired painters to emerge from the American South. For over 50 years Maud Gatewood has been an inspired laborer, producing an extraordinary body of work. Honors have come to her as a painter, an advocate of the arts, and an active citizen. Post-Q&A with filmmakers. Shown with "Mary's Gone Wild" a short film by Blaire Johnson on visionary folk artist Mary Paulsen of Holden Beach, NC. www.empowermentproject.org/gatewood.html.