SOAPIFF film screenings began in the heart of Southern Appalachia at venues in downtown Johnson City, Tennessee and East Tennessee State University. Screenings continue through November 23 in Knoxville, Tennessee at Pellissippi State Technical Community College, the Knoxville Museum of Art and the East Tennessee History Center.
PSTCC
Films will screen at campus theatres of Pellissippi State Technical Community College from November 17 - 23.
Film screening times are posted in the schedule on this website.
- Karla Winfrey will screen her film Waiting in the Wings about black musicians and country music and take questions from audiences at 10:30am Friday at the Magnolia campus and at 1:30pm at the Hardin Valley campus in Goins Auditorium.
- Raeanne Rubenstein, celebrity photographer and publisher of DISHmag.com will speak at 4pm Friday at Hardin Valley in Goins Auditorium.
- At the SOAPIFF Awards Reception in the Bagwell Center at 5pm following her talk, Ms. Rubenstein will announce the DISHmag audience favorite film of the festival. Festival Director Mark Compton will present other awards.
- Following the reception, two films will screen in the Clayton Center for Performing Arts (La Vie en Rose at 6pm and Trouble Sleeping at 9pm).
The College, a Sponsoring Partner of the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival, is located in East Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, the gateway to the Smoky Mountains. Courses offered by the College include film studies and media production for video, photography, communication graphics and web. Contact PSTCC Media Technologies for further information about credit courses related to the Festival. The new Bagwell Center for Media and Art on the Pellissippi Hardin Valley campus concourse is hosting an exhibition of Celebrity photography by Raeanne Rubenstein in the Bagwell Gallery through November 26. Films will screen in Goins Auditorium and Clayton Performing Arts Center, and other campus locations. Please check the screening schedule here for the most recent update.
KMA
The Knoxville Museum of Art will screen films in collaboration with Pellissippi State on November 21 and 22. The Musuem is located in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, in the World Fair Park. Filmgoers will join the fun and enjoy the music of Live After Five, featuring bands presented each Friday by Bluegill Productions. The Museum is hosting an exhibition of American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Tradition in the Appalachian theme coinciding with the films. Contact Knoxville Museum of Art for further information about exhibitions and other events at the museum.
Friday, November 21 - 8:00pm : Freedom (2007) USA
Saturday, November 22 - 10:00am - 5:00pm : films
ETSU
East Tennessee State University, a Festival Co-sponsor of the Southern Appalachian International Film Festival, is located in Northeastern Tennessee in Johnson City, Tennessee, the heart of the Southern Appalachians. Festival screenings begin in campus theatres November 13. Courses offered by the University will include study of Festival films. Contact the ETSU Film Studies Program, The Department of Art and Design, ETSU Department of Sociology and Anthropology, ETSU Environmental Studies Minor and ETSU Initiative for Clean Energy and ETSU Women's Studies programs of the college that supported the film festival for further information about credit courses related to the festival films.
Environment
This year's films include a selection focused on the environment. Threats to the environment and natural habitats have motivated a new activism for the production of films about the danger to nature and communities that face the devastating consequences of ignoring damage to the environment.
Movies, Music and Mountains
Come! Join the festivities this November! Movies, Music and entertainment. Festival movie screenings are FREE TO THE PUBLIC at all theatres!
Check this site for announcements about events, films and more information as this year's Festival approaches.
SOAPIFF would like to thank Scottish Screen for assistance contacting outstanding filmmakers from the U.K. for the festival this year. There is generous emphasis on Scottish film in the lineup. Also featured is the Focus on Films in French which was enabled by the generous support of the French Cultural Services of the Consulat général de France à New York, Atlanta and FACE. In other news, Festival Executive Director Mark Compton taught film studies at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this summer as part of a study abroad program arranged by TnCIS (Tennessee Consortium for International Studies). The program included students from several colleges. Artistic Director Amelia Fry also attended EIFF and met with filmmakers there. One of the highlights of her visit was meeting Brian Cox who starred in Red. Representatives of SOAPIFF, Scottish Screen and the Film Archives of the National Library Library of Scotland met in Glasgow after the festival.
Smokies photo by Gay Bryant.
Appalachians photo by Chris Kinser.
