Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 16:16:35 -0400
From: Linda Booker
Subject: May Moonshine Movies & Music with ChathamArts
ChathamArts Sustainable Cinema Presents
MAY MOONSHINE MOVIES & MUSIC! Special Event – Tuesday May 24th – 7:30 PM
Fearrington Village Barn, Admission $10 adults/$5 students, Cash Bar & Concessions
THE LAST ONE by Neal Hutcheson: Legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton makes his final run in this 2009 Emmy Award Winning documentary
“A cult classic!” – The Newport Plain Talk. Deep in the wilds of
Southern Appalachia, lifelong moonshiner Popcorn Sutton runs one last
batch of true moonshine whiskey. Through the exhausting work of
clearing the site, building a rock and clay furnace, brewing corn
mash and producing high-proof moonshine, Sutton reveals the craft of
traditional distillation, the character of his Scots-Irish ancestors,
and a lifetime of memories in the trade. The affable Sutton dominates
the film, weaving explanations of points of craft with stories of a
lifetime of experiences in the moonshine trade, while interviews with
Appalachian folklorists, storytellers, and noted authors explore the
role of moonshine in Appalachian history and identity. NEAL
HUTCHESON is an Emmy-award winning filmmaker and video producer and
founder of Sucker Punch Pictures. Hutcheson is best known for his
collaborations with the linguist Walt Wolfram at NC State University,
including the popular documentary Mountain Talk, which laid the
groundwork for several further documentaries including the PBS
release The Queen Family, The Last One, and a dramatic film, Gary
Carden’s The Prince of Dark Corners. Three of his films were honored
in a special showing in Berlin, Germany in 2006, and he received the
Bill Arnold North Carolina Film Award in 2008 for “The Outlaw Lewis
Redmond.”
Plus MOONSHINE MUSIC & SONGS! with Tommy Edwards, lead singer and
guitarist and Stan Brown banjo player of The Bluegrass Experience,
one of the Southeast’s most respected traditional music groups.
Edwards was twice named World Champion Bluegrass Guitarist and has
recorded or performed live with an array of bluegrass greats,
including Jimmy Martin, Bobby Hicks, Peter Rowan, Jimmy Mills, Dan
Crary, Jack Lawrence, and Mike Cross. Edwards is also host of Life
103.1’s “Bluegrass Saturday Night”
also screening short film: PERCY’S RUN by D.L. Anderson: Mr. Joshua
Percy Flowers is second only to Ava Gardner in notoriety anywhere
near Johnston County, North Carolina. The Saturday Evening Post
declared Flowers “King of the Moonshiners” in 1958, when it is
estimated he was earning one million dollars annually in untaxed
revenue from the sale of white liquor up and down the East Coast. He
was also one “helluva fox hunter.” This film attempts to cover the
ground between the two pursuits and reveal a picture of the man apart
from the legends. D.L. Anderson is a photographer and filmmaker
raised in Galva, Illinois (population 2,700). Though quite eager to
leave Galva when it came time, he still prefers dirt roads to traffic
jams and late-night catfishing to being anywhere else at all. He also
loves hearing and sharing stories that matter to the people he’s
fortunate to meet along the way. Anderson works mostly for The
Independent Weekly. You can also view his work online anytime at
dlanderson.com
http://www.chathamarts.org/sustainablecinema
Come see why the Independent Weekly calls the ChathamArts Sustainable
Cinema Series “One of the best film-festival ideas to emerge around
here.”
Thanks to our 2011 Sustainable Cinema Series Sponsors! Life 103.1
and Fearrington Village
ChathamArts
www.chathamarts.org
919-542-0394
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