LCE Presents the 2008-2009 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers

Southern Circuit brings talented independent filmmakers and their groundbreaking films to communities throughout the South. The nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers, the program encourages audiences to engage filmmakers about their work through post-screening discussions and special events. The 2008-2009 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers features six films and their filmmakers, including both documentaries and narrative fiction works. A program of the Southern Arts Federation, the series is presented in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts and the host organizations in each community. Click here for a PDF version of the schedule!

All showings will be held in the University Center Theater at 7:00 p.m.

Tickets:
Free for WCU Students, Faculty, & Staff with ID
$4-General Public

September 4, 2008
Shame
Mohammed Naqvi, producer/director

In a remote village of Pakistan, Mukhtaran Mai’s life changed when she was punished for a crime allegedly committed by her brother. Mai set out to seek justice. Shame chronicles her journey from a simple peasant woman into a world human rights icon and a local leader for change.

October 6, 2008
Beyond the Call
Adrian Belic, producer/director

Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman are three middle-aged men whose idea of adventure is taking desperately needed food and medicine into the world’s most forbidding yet beautiful places on Earth, often at the front lines of war. Beyond the Call chronicles the global adventures of this heroic threesome.

November 6, 2008
TJÚBA TÉN (The Wet Season) and Other Experimental Ethnographies
Ben Russell, producer/director

Recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname, TJÚBA TÉN (The Wet Season) is composed of community-generated performances, reenactments, and extemporaneous recordings. The resulting record proposes questions to the viewers through long takes, materialist approaches, selective subtitling, and a focus on various forms of cultural labor.

February 5, 2009
Tru Loved
Antonio Brown, producer and Stewart Wade, director

A teenage daughter of lesbian mothers, Tru struggles as an outsider at her new high school until high school quarterback Lodell takes an interest in her. With surprise plot twists that challenge traditional norms social identities, Tru Loved explores the themes of love and acceptance that we all seek.

March 12, 2009
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled
Victor Zimet, producer/director and Stephanie Silber, producer/director

Poppa Neutrino is the patriarch of an innovative and creative family of vagabonds. He, his wife Betsy, and their five children travel from New York to Arizona, from Moscow to Mexico, playing Dixieland jazz and eking out a living on the streets and in their homemade ocean vessels. Random Lunacy chronicles one family’s journey that you won’t soon forget.

April 16, 2009
‘Bama Girl
Rachel Goslins, producer/director

‘Bama Girl follows one black woman’s quest to become Homecoming Queen at the University of Alabama. The Crimson Tide’s Homecoming has a rich history, tied into centuries of privilege, old money and racial exclusivity. This powerful and enlightening documentary follows Jessica Thomas and her campaign in competition with 15 other co-eds and a strictly segregated Greek system. Along the way, the film reveals surprises about black vs. white, Old South vs. New South, and the microcosm of electoral politics that mirrors the Presidential campaigns today.

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