"Sustainable
Cinema Series" is a film series featuring documentaries, narrative
and independent films involving producers, directors, subjects and/or
locations in North Carolina. Regularly scheduled screenings take place
at the Fearrington Barn in Fearrington Village, Pittsboro, the last
Tuesday of the month. Admission at the door is $5 for adults and $3
for students. Cash beverage/bar available during films. Admissions
proceeds benefit ChathamArts and its arts & education programs.
Filmmakers are usually
in attendance for post-screening Q&A’s. Come enjoy local
cinematic treasures, learn about the art of filmmaking and enjoy engaging
discussion afterwards!
Coming UP next
Coming January 2010
SPECIAL
EVENT! Friday January 29, 2010, 7:00 p.m. • Looking
for Ms. Locklear • Tickets $10 each.
Rhett & Link, self proclaimed "Internetainers" have achieved fame for their hysterical songs, skits and local commercials that have received a gazillion hits on YouTube and their website rhettandlink.com. The Lillington, NC duo first met in first grade in Ms. Locklear's class after getting in trouble for writing nasty things on their desks. In 2006, they decided to search for her relying solely on face-to-face contact with people. Their film chronicles their search, which led them into the company of a host of characters and the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, prominently featured in the movie, much of which takes place in Pembroke, Robeson County. Rhett & Link will be in attendance for Q&A and performing a couple of their songs . The award-winning film's two shows at the Galaxy Theater in Cary last August were sold out, so get your $10 advance tickets now!
Rhett&Link have developed an international following through their collection of over 200 web videos. Their music videos, non-scripted reality videos, and sketches have been seen over 35 million times, and have been featured on CNN, BBC, Fox News, WGN, TV Guide, G4’s Attack of the Show, Channel 101’s the Fizz, and the homepages of Youtube, Revver, Veoh, iFilm, MSNvideo, the DailyReel, Crackle and other video sites. Rhett&Link have also created original video series for NBC Universal and TV Guide Broadband. They write, shoot, edit and produce almost all of their videos. Visit the filmmakers' website to view their unique brand of humorous songs, local commercials and skits. Listen to their interview with Frank Stasio on "The State of Things" http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0609abc09.mp3/view
Tuesday February 23, 2010, 7:00 p.m. • A New Kind of Listening The story of a visionary director, a one-of-a-kind theater group, and a young man who could not speak, yet found the voice he had been looking for all his life. Kenny Dalsheimer's documentary takes us inside the creative work of the Community Inclusive Theater Group, as director Richard Reho inspires cast members, some with disabilities, to be writers, actors and dancers in an original collaborative performance. Together they prove that a small community arts project has the power to transform lives. Admission at door: $5 adults/$3 for students. http://www.anewkindoflistening.com/index.html.
Tuesday March 30, 2010, 7:00 p.m. • NC College Student Showcase: The best in short student films from around the state. $5 adults/$3 for students.
Past Screenings
• Tuesday
November 24, 2009, 7:00 p.m. • Love
Lived on Death Row (84 minutes) Pittsboro filmmaker Linda
Booker's documentary chronicles the remarkable story of the Syriani sibling's
journey from hate and anger to love and forgiveness for their father who
murdered their mother in 1990. Special thanks to Anoushka Brod, Mary Beth Clark, Kerstin Lindgren, Pam Smith,
Jane Allen Wilson and Betty Wilson for their powerful performance of "For Strong Women"
Tuesday October 27, 7:00 PM • Show Us Your Spooky Shorts, a Halloween program of short films by North Carolina filmmakers, and “A Bite of Improv,” featuring an audience-engaging performance by Anoushka Brod of Transactor’s Improv. The short improv performance begins at 7:00 p.m. with films to follow. We promise a fun and suspenseful night of cinematic treats.... bring your boofriend or ghoulfriend if you have one!
• Alexa (9 min) by Todd Tinkham.
• Chain of Fools (8 min 16 sec) written and
directed by Stephen Roberts.
• Getting a Head in the Movie Biz (20 min) by
Christine Parker and The Adrenalin Group.
• Penitent Sweater (25 min 47 sec) directed
by Bill Harrelson, co-produced by Mark Duncan, based on a script by Jared Waters.
•
Also
screening the documentary The Vampire Beast of Bladenboro (9
min) by Laura Dunne.
Tuesday September 29th • The
Siamese Connection (74-minutes/may not be suitable for children). This
feature-length documentary explores the living history of Chang and
Eng Bunker. conjoined twins from Thailand, who became world famous
as part of P.T. Barnum's circus. The twins eventually settled in
the North Carolina foothills during the Antebellum South, married
two local sisters and raised 21 children. Using a collage of scenes
from Thailand to Mount Airy, NC, we discover that these men still
exist vividly in the contemporary imagination and have the power
to act as potent metaphors for basic human experiences in both life
and art. Producer/Director Josh Gibson is an independent filmmaker and the Associate
Director of the Duke University Film/Video/Digital Program. His work has spanned
the gamut from narrative, to documentary to experimental and has shown nationally
and internationally in film festivals and on television. Along with his wife,
he runs a production company called Hardlight Limited in Durham, NC.
Tuesday August 25th, 7:30 PM • Rocaterrania. Brett Ingram’s documentary explores the imaginary, European-styled nation of Rocaterrania, a secret world created by artist Renaldo Kuhler. In the last four decades, seventy-six-year-old Kuhler has created hundreds of plates for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, illustrating diverse flora and fauna for obscure scientific journals and reference books. Before the making of this documentary, no one knew that he is also a prolific visionary artist.
Rocaterrania unveils Kuhler's astounding imaginary nation to the world, complete with it’s own language, complex history and industries and reveals the powerful story of his life in the process. Among other themes, the film is about the insidious nature of conformity, the courage to be one’s true self, and the redemptive power of artistic creation. Featuring an eclectic original score by Merge Records recording artists Shark Quest.
Formerly a journalist, physics teacher, and electrical engineer on the Space Shuttle Main Engine Program, Brett Ingram teaches filmmaking in the Department of Broadcasting and Cinema at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ingram’s first documentary feature, Monster Road, about clay-animator Bruce Bickford, won sixteen awards (including “Best Documentary” at
the 2004 Slamdance Film Festival) and screened at more than ninety festivals
(including MFF 2004) before playing the Sundance Channel in 2005. http://www.brettingram.org.
Tuesday
July 28th, 7:00 PM • Sizzling
Summer Shorts Cinema & Song Fest. The Chatham County Arts Council celebrates the one year anniversary of
their 100-Mile Sustainable Cinema Series with an array of the Triangle’s
very best local short films ranging from quirky to dramatic tointriguingly
abstract. Teen rockers from Girls Rock Camp kick
off the celebration at 7 pm. Their motto is, “We put the amp in Camp.”
At 7:30 we roll out the reels with such short screen gems as: Ajit Anthony Prem’s Banana Bus, which won “Best North Carolina Short” at the All American Film Fest this spring. Nic Beery’s Frame, a story of distress, emptiness, love and happiness. "Frame" premiered at the "Cannes in a Van" festival. Todd Tinkham’s American Short, Stephen Robert's political mockumentary, Citizen Pratt and In the Garden by Elizabeth May. We are also excited to present the premieres of Norma Hawthorne and Eric Chavez Santiago’s Weaving a Curve and Robert & Lori Hensley's Untethered a documentary about the important work of Durham's Coalition to Unchain Dogs. We guarantee you're going to fall in love with its star Fluffy.
At 9 pm, filmmakers lead a Q&A discussion followed by a live concert by artists on the rise toward the big-time, Mandolin Orange http://www.myspace.com/mandolinorange. Local fans can’t get enough of Andrew and Emily Frantz’s riveting on-stage chemistry and the blending of their ethereal voices. So get out of the heat and get in the cool of the barn (at Fearrington Village) and celebrate sustainable cinema and song while helping us raise money for a future Youth Documentary Arts Program.
Tuesday
June 30th • Somay
Ku: A Uganda Tennis Story.
7:30 PM, Patrick Olobo, Uganda's top-ranked tennis player, was four when LRA
rebels decimated his family's quiet life in Northern Uganda, forcing
them to abandon their ancestral land. The film accompanies Patrick during
his last weeks in Uganda and first 2 years in the US, as his new life
unfolds in unforeseen ways. His tennis dream is threatened by the pressures
of his new life, contingent upon sponsors and their expectations, and
transformed by American culture. SOMAY KU was awarded Best Documentary at The Malibu Int'l Film Festival last
April. (105 minutes). Download
flyer (pdf).
Tuesday May 19th• With These Hands: The Story of an American Furniture Factory.
Greensboro
filmmaker Matthew Barr's documentary follows the last days of the Hooker
Furniture operation. Along the way, employees at the factory share their
perspectives on work, community, and survival in a country devastated by
deindustrialization and outsourcing. Read/Download flyer...
APRIL 28th • Bending Space:
George Rousse and the Durham Project, 7:00 PM. Producers/Penelope Maunsell and Kenny Dalsheimer. What happens
when a visionary French artist meets the creative spirit of a former
Tobacco Road town in the midst of downtown revitalization? A singular
grassroots arts project emerges that confounds expectations and takes
the city of Durham, North Carolina by storm as buildings from a past
incarnation of the city are transformed into temporary canvases for dramatic
public art.
http://www.rousseprojectdurham.com/main.htm
MARCH 31st • 7:00 PM. Special screening of The Folk Artist’s Foundation Documentary, All Rendered Truth (1 hour) by Immaculate Baking Company founder Scott Blackwell and filmmaker Patrick Long. Plus Fun and Folky Shorts featuring Key West Cock Tales (23 minutes) by Christa Carnell, Michelle Phillips & Craig Roberts and Linda Booker’s Clyde & Mikhail (7 minutes). http://www.keywestcocktales.com
RACE IN NC - Looking Back • Moving Forward
Documentary Film Forum
Saturday-Sunday MARCH 21-22
• Change Comes Knocking -
The Story of the NC Fund by Rebecca Cerese and Dr. Steven Channing.
Learn more about the NC Fund...
• FBI-KKK by Michael Frierson
(associate professor in Broadcasting- Cinema at UNC Greensboro.) Learn more...
• Family
Name by Macky
Alston. Learn more...
• We
Shall Not Be Moved by Chris Potter and Charles
Thompson