2012-2013 Independent Film Series
The Arts Council and Gainesville State College proudly present the 2012-2013 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers.
THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2012-2013 SEASON!
small, beautifully MOVING PARTS Tickets: $15 Adults; When technophile Sarah Sparks becomes pregnant, her uncertainties about motherhood trigger an impulsive road trip to the source of her anxiety: her long-estranged mother, living far away and off-the-grid. Roger Ebert says Small, Beautifully Moving Parts…“a small film [that] knows exactly how to be a small film.”
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OTIS UNDER SKY Filmmaker Q&A Reception - Tickets: $7 Adults; In Otis Under Sky, Otis spends his days in front of a computer posting articles and self-created web-art on his multiple web sites. Everything changes for Otis when his camera lens comes across Ursula, who is bored and pining for her lover, but intrigued by Otis’ creepiness. When Ursula’s lover returns, Otis must find a way to overcome his love and loss, and continue his artistic endeavors. |
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Filmmaker Q&A Reception - Tickets: $7 Adults; In the documentary Smokin’ Fish, Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau, Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family’s traditional fish camp. Through circumstances tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, Smokin’ Fish tells the story of one man’s attempts to navigate the messy collision between the modern world and an ancient culture.
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girl model Filmmaker Q&A and Reception - Tickets: $7 Adults; Told through the eyes of a 13-year-old Siberian girl and the American scout who discovered her, Girl Model follows a complex, global supply chain of young girls sent abroad to seek their fortunes in the unregulated and often murky world of the modeling industry.
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FREE CHINA: The Courage to Believe Filmmaker Q&A and Reception - Tickets: $7 Adults; Free China: The Courage to Believe examines widespread human rights violations in China through the stories of Jennifer Zeng, a mother and former Communist Party member; Dr. Charles Lee, a Chinese-American businessman; and hundreds of thousands of peaceful citizens who are impris-oned, tortured and subjected to slave labor for their spiritual beliefs.
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STRONG! Filmmaker Q&A and Reception - Tickets: $7 Adults; Cheryl Haworth is a young woman with a big dream: to be the strongest woman in the world. As the 300-pound U.S. Olympic weightlifter prepares for Beijing 2008, she struggles with injury, confi-dence, and her place in a world where larger women are not readily accepted.
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The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers 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.
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