Coming Attractions
September 4, 2010
78 minutes
Time: 7pm
Cost: $2 members, $5 nonmembers
STILL BILL is an intimate portrait of soul legend Bill Withers, best known for his classics “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” “Lovely Day,” “Grandma’s Hands,” and “Just the Two of Us.” With his soulful delivery and warm, heartfelt sincerity, Withers has written the songs that have – and always will – resonate deeply within the fabric of our times.
Filmmakers Damani Baker and Alex Vlack follow Withers and offer a unique and rare look inside the world of this fascinating man. Through concert footage, journeys to his birthplace, interviews with music legends, his family and closest friends, STILL BILL presents the story of an artist who has written some of the most beloved songs in our time and who truly understands the heart and soul of a man.
"Much of the biographical documentary Still Bill, about the singer Bill Withers, is pleasant and even moving."
-NEW YORK TIMES
September 11, 2010
130 minutes
Time: 7pm
Cost: $2 members, $5 nonmembers
Joe Peterson is a burned-out kids book writer who’s approaching his mid-life crisis. With his career at a standstill and his relationship in shambles, he leaves town with his best buddy to do the Polar Bear Plunge in the dead of winter in northern Wisconsin in an attempt to reignite his fire.
FEED THE FISH is still making rounds on the film festival circuit (it just won Best Cinematography at the Woods Hole Film Festival) and this will be the SC premiere showing of the film.
September 18, 2010
94 minutes
Time: 7pm
Cost: $2 members, $5 nonmembers
From Netflix:
In this Greek drama, siblings who grow up cut off from the world -- homeschooled and dependent on one another for entertainment -- develop their own blissful alternative universe. That universe is shattered when their father lets in an outsider. Sex enters the picture when dad begins bringing home a female security officer to satisfy his son's sexual needs. Suddenly, nothing is quite the same within this highly idiosyncratic family unit.
"The most original, challenging, and perverse film of the year so far, Giorgos Lanthimos's artfully rigorous treatise on human conditioning can be viewed as absurdist horror or the cruelest of comedies."
-VILLAGE VOICE
"Dogtooth is like a car crash. You cannot look away."
-CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
September 25, 2010
90 minutes
Time: 7pm
Cost: $10 donation
Lights. Camera. Help. is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to encouraging other nonprofit and cause-driven organizations to use film and video to tell their stories. This special event will feature jury prize winners from this year’s recently held Lights. Camera. Help. Film Festival, which focused exclusively on nonprofit and cause-driven films
- GIRLS OF DARAJA, submitted by the Daraja Academy and director Barbara Rick, won best short film for its portrayal of the Daraja Academy's work to improve education opportunities for girls in Kenya.
- Director Spencer Stoner won best PSA for his film ECOVIVA: AN INTRODUCTION, which promotes nonprofit EcoViva's efforts to help community organizations in El Salvador.
- INCLUDING SAMUEL was submitted by the Institute on Disability and filmmaker Dan Habib. The film documents one family’s efforts to include a child with cerebral palsy in every facet of their lives.
You will also get a chance to see some locally-produced cause-driven films and hear from a nonprofit leader behind the cause.
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