ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Series presents Short Attention Span Short Films Fest at Fearrington Barn on May 29

Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 09:24:29 -0400
From: “Linda Booker”
Subject: Next Tuesday! ChathamArts Short Short Films Fest at Fearrington

Next Tuesday May 29th, 7:30 pm
ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Series presents Short Attention Span Short Films Fest!
Fearrington Village Barn, Admission $5 at door

Join us for an evening of short films produced by local North Carolina Filmmakers!  We’re thrilled to welcome back some of our Sustainable Cinema filmmaker alumni. Where else can you see films (some award-winning) about DOGS, DONKEYS, ARTISTS, GRANDPAS, LITTLE GIRLS, COFFEE, FRACKING, SLUGS & MORE on the big screen all on one night?

Bridging Rails to Trails: New Hope Valley Railway by Carol Thompson
Café Sense by Vittles
Grandpa Gives You the Bird  by Marc Maximov
A Message From The Marcellus by Todd Tinkham
Meinrad Craighead Praying with Images by Minnow Media, RCWMS, Amy Kellum
Pettsboro by Mark Barroso
Straight and Steady by Kim Best
Timed Romance by Rob Underhill
When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl by Jim Haverkamp
Wiggle Room by Joey Shanks

SHOW US YOUR SHORTS!  Wear your funniest or most favorite shorts and get
entered into a drawing for door prizes! More info:
www.chathamarts.org/sustainablecinema

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Coming Soon: Tuesday June 19th – 7:00 pm:
Special Event with Twitch and Shout’s Lowell Handler Presenting His New
Photography/E-Book Crazy and Proud

Special guest Lowell Handler, is the star, narrator, guide, and associate
producer of the Emmy-nominated PBS television documentary Twitch & Shout.
The film set the stage for his 1998 memoir, Twitch & Shout: A Touretter’s
Tale, published by Penguin. A segment of the the documentary which has
been described as “wonderful, compassionate, funny, instructive, inspiring
and flat-out brilliant documentary” will be shown.

Handler’s latest project Crazy and Proud is a first-person narrative that
chronicles what happened when the Lowell, a photographer with Tourette
syndrome, began work at a New York City shelter for mentally-ill women. He
wasn’t sure what he’d signed on for. The year that followed taught Lowell
to keep a sense of humor, and to not pre-judge anyone. The women learned
photography and took some great pictures. Many are in the new eBook, along
with the text, which Handler will read from, photographs he will project,
and a short video that features one of the women, which will be screened.

Lowell is a former Black Star contract photographer-journalist whose
pictures have appeared in Life, Newsweek, Elle, U.S. News & World Report,
The (London) Sunday Times Magazine, Hippocrates, The New York Review of
Books, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and the Southern Poverty Law
Center’s Intelligence Report and Teaching Tolerance, as well as many
international journals from Brazil to Japan. His parents Murray and Enid
Handler reside in Pittsboro.

ChathamArts’ Sustainable Cinema is a film series featuring documentaries,
narrative and independent films involving producers, directors, subjects
and/or locations in North Carolina. Screenings take place Feb-June and
Sept-Nov at the Fearrington Barn in Fearrington Village, Pittsboro.
Admission at the door is $5 except for special events.

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. Join us for cinematic treasures,
learn about the art of filmmaking and enjoy engaging discussion
afterwards!

Learn more about ChathamArts at www.chathamarts.org, 919-542-0394