2011-2012 Film Screening Schedule:
A Bird of the Air
Sept 15, 2011
Includes Dinner, served at 6:30 PM
Film Screening at 7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center
Lyman (Jackson Hurst) is a loner whose job patrolling highways at night, aiding stranded motorists keeps him at a distance from other people. When a rare, highly talkative parrot flies into his home one day, Lyman needs to figure out where the bird comes from and tries to decode its often cryptic utterances. Enlisting the aid of Fiona (Rachel Nichols), an unconventional librarian who is as interested in Lymanʼs secrets as she is in the bird’s, the pair set off on a search that doesn’t always lead them where they think they’re going, but gradually leads them to one another.
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Louder Than a Bomb
Oct 20, 2011
7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Gainesville State College: Academic Building IV, Room 3110 (on Mathis Drive)
“Louder Than a Bomb” is a film about passion, competition, teamwork, and trust. It’s about the joy of being young and the pain of growing up. It’s about speaking out, making noise, and finding your voice…it also just happens to be about poetry.
Every year, more than six hundred teenagers from over sixty Chicago-area schools gather for the world’s largest youth poetry slam, a competition known as “Louder Than a Bomb”. To succeed, teams have to create an environment of mutual trust and support. For many kids, being a part of such an environment—in an academic context—is life-changing.
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Ahead of Time
Nov 10, 2011
7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center
Born in Brooklyn in 1911, Ruth Gruber defied tradition from the moment she became the world’s youngest PhD at the age of 20 in 1931. She went on to become the eyes and conscience of the world as a journalist, photo-journalist and member of the Roosevelt administration. The first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, Ruth traveled to Alaska for the U.S. Dept of Interior in 1942, and was chosen to escort 1000 Holocaust refugees to America in 1944. Ruth turns 100 years old in October 2011 and the film reveals that her trail-blazing spirit and moxie are still inspiring to this day. click for more information
Barbershop Punk
Feb 9, 2012
7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Gainesville State College: Academic Building IV, Room 3110 (on Mathis Drive)
In a privatized American Internet, is big business “Big Brother” or does the free markets protect and serve the needs of the average citizen with its invisible hand? With the simple act of swapping files, barbershop quartet baritone Robb Topolski finds himself at ground zero of a landmark case whose outcome will affect the rights of every American citizen. Following one man’s personal quest to defend what he believes to be his inalienable rights; Barbershop Punk examines the critical issues surrounding the future of the Internet and what it truly means to be “punk.”
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A Gift for the Village
Mar 23, 2012
7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center
In June of 2007, seven friends traveled from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to the village of Jomsom in the Himalayas of Nepal to deliver a painting by American artist Jane Lillian Vance. The painting depicts Tsampa Ngawang, a Tibetan Amchi, or doctor and mind healer.
The film is narrated by Public Radio’s Lisa Mullins. The cross-cultural project has received the blessing of his Holiness the Dalai Lama, and examines the connections between an American community reeling in the face of the killings at Virginia Tech, and a remote Himalayan region fighting to preserve its way of life in the face of encroaching modernization.
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You Don't Know What I've Got
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Nashville Sit-ins
We Shall Not Be Moved: The Chattanooga Sit-ins
Apr 12, 2012
7:30 PM
Meet the Filmmaker Q&A and Reception
Gainesville State College: Academic Building IV, Room 3110 (on Mathis Drive)
Linda Duvoisin presents three great short films that will peak interest and encourage conversation.
The 2011-2012 Southern Circuit is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and local partner organizations. Special support for Southern Circuit was provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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