Rogers-Stout Theater #1 - Appalachian Films Friday - October 12

5pm – Burgoo – 118 min.
The Kentucky Arts Commission Folklife Program recognized the extensive field work and prior video documentation of the Kentucky burgoo tradition by folklife and Southern culture documentary video producer, Stan Woodward, awarding a grant that enabled him to return to the Commonwealth to complete his documentary on Burgoo! The filmmaker travels from the southern Tennessee border through central Kentucky, visits the Catholic church parishes in western Kentucky and provides what one burgoo master in the film describes as "a full dipper" of burgoo-making and it’s mythology as a folk heritage foodway of Kentucky. Tracing historical roots back to early settlement of the American frontier, to the farm culture and "hunters stews", the documentary is full of stories about the rich heritage of family traditions, church traditions, horse racing, institutional, civic and commercial restaurant traditions that combine together in ways that uniquely identify burgoo with the people and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Kentucky Arts Commission will make this program available to KET for sharing with the citizens of Kentucky and all friends of burgoo.

7pm – The Heartland Series – 45 min
This is a hand chosen collection by Bill Landry. The Heartland Series is along running collection of vignettes depicting a wide variance of cultures, legends, and history in the Southern Appalachian region. Bill Landry will be on hand to speak on the eleven shorts.

"Ray Hicks' - "A Peck To the Hill"- The great storyteller recalls plowing the new ground in a lyric ode to farming.

"The Galax Gatherers" – Christmas story about the mountain folks who make a living gathering a plant and selling to the city folks and what a little girl learns on her first trip.

"Daylight Courtin" - What happens to a young boy when he tries to court his girl in the daytime, which is another thing entirely.

"Pool Checkers" - a very special game that is played around east tennessee by many african americans where you can move your kings not only up and back, but every which way.

"The Flint Mine" Archeological adventure story that takes the viewer deep into an ancient indian mine where arrowheads were made from flint.

"The Hanging of Mary the Elephant" - the tragic true tale of what happened to Mary, the star elephant in a circus that so enranged the town of Erwin that they hung her from a crane!

"A Heart's Space" - the song of the heartland series. A music video.

"Davy Crockett: Gamecock of the Wilderness" – Davy's adventure to find powder during a winter storm.

"Santa Claus Comes to Tater Fork" - A mountain fella comes back from town with the idea to make a sled pulled by deers and fly.

"Raid on Watauga" – IT IS BIG! THE REINACTMENT.

"Mr. Eastman, Meet East Tennessee" – True, little know story of how George Eastman and his plant was lured into coming to East Tennessee and staying.

8 pm – The Ralph Stanley Story – 115 min
Ralph Stanley's Story is a portrait of the Grammy award-winning bluegrass great and star of the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack. For over 50 years, Ralph Stanley’s banjo playing, haunting tenor voice and tradition-inspired repertoire have epitomized old time bluegrass music. This documentary explores Stanley’s musical roots in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia, the early days of The Stanley Brothers, and Ralph’s decision to continue on after the untimely death of brother Carter. Interviews with Ralph, former band members, and fellow musicians like Patty Loveless and Dwight Yoakum are intercut with live performances of such songs as "Rank Stranger," "Pretty Polly," and "Man of Constant Sorrow." Ralph also performs with Larry Sparks and Ricky Skaggs at his annual “Hills of Home Bluegrass Festival.”

10 pm – Whipping The Devil –
In 1925, Guy Roberts was an impressionable 15 year old working in the pool halls of Pound, Virginia, racking games and selling moonshine whiskey. During the 1930s he took to hauling moonshine over the mountain to Kentucky. After taking part in a robbery he was forced to flee across America on the lam. The video weaves together Guy's descriptions of his journey, family photographs, and the banjo music of Dock Boggs, including the song "Prodigal Son." Like the young man in the parable, Guy returned home, faced his punishment, and "lived a good life."

Rogers-Stout Theater #1 - Appalachian Films Saturday - October 13th

5pm - Southern Routes Volume 1 - 57. min
Another classic from Stan Woodard, follow Stan and his camera as he journeys through the back roads and byways of the South encountering folk artist and various food ways that make Southern culture so alluring.

6 pm - Morristown - 60 min
In this hour-long documentary, director Ann Lewis chronicles nearly a decade of change in Morristown, Tennessee, through interviews with displaced or low-wage Southern workers, Mexican immigrants, and workers and families impacted by globalization.The film shows how working-class people in Mexico and eastern Tennessee are caught in the throes of massive economic change, challenging their assumptions about work, family, nation and community."Morristown" is in Spanish and English with subtitles.

7 pm - Beyond Measure: Appalachian Culture and Economy - 58 min.
There is a constant tension between the forces of an ever changing economy and need to have stable communities. All communities must have an economic base, yet changes in economic conditions can devastate a community. As technologies change, workers can lose their jobs and whole communities can be left without a stable source of income. Beyond Measure looks at specific examples of people wrestling with these challenges, the people of the Appalachian Mountains, the people of the Appalachian coalfields. People in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains know how to survive hard times. Currently, thousands of coal miners are losing their jobs as a wave of newer and bigger machine moves through the coalfields. As jobs are lost, communities face an uncertain future. Beyond Measure places the present challenges in a larger historical context and document efforts of citizens to rebuild their communities. The beauty and challenges of living in the mountains are shown as the people describe their daily lives. Rather than a disembodied voice narrating the film, we hear the words, clarity, and depth, which come straight from their own experiences. They describe how the mutual aid and support of extended families and attachments to the land are more important than the things economists usually measure.

8 pm - Stranger With A Camera - 61 min
In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor visited the mountains of Central Appalachia to document poverty. A local landlord, who resented the presence of filmmakers on his property, shot and killed O'Connor, in part because of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation's War on Poverty. Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret, a native of Appalachia, uses O'Connor's death as a lens to explore the complex relationship between those who make films to promote social change and the people whose lives are represented in such media productions. Through first-person accounts of the killing and the perspective of three decades of reflection, Stranger With A Camera leads viewers on a quest for understanding - a quest that ultimately leads Barret to examine her own role as both a maker of media and a member of the Appalachian community she portrays.

9:15 pm Up the Ridge – 60 min
Up the Ridge is a one-hour television documentary produced by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby. In 1999 Szuberla and Kirby were volunteer DJ’s for the Appalachian region’s only hip-hop radio program in Whitesburg, KY when they received hundreds of letters from inmates transferred into nearby Wallens Ridge, the region’s newest prison built to prop up the shrinking coal economy. The letters described human rights violations and racial tension between staff and inmates. Filming began that year and, though the lens of Wallens Ridge State Prison, the program offers viewers an in-depth look at the United States prison industry and the social impact of moving hundreds of thousands of inner-city minority offenders to distant rural outposts. The film explores competing political agendas that align government policy with human rights violations, and political expediencies that bring communities into racial and cultural conflict with tragic consequences. Connections exist, in both practice and ideology, between human rights violations in Abu Ghraib and physical and sexual abuse recorded in American prisons.

Rogers-Stout Theater #1 - Appalachian Films Sunday - October 14th

1 pm - It’s Grits – 45 min -
As just about anyone who's traveled through the region could tell you, hominy grits are a staple of the Southern breakfast table. This documentary by Stan Woodward examines the history of this culinary treat, leaving no stone unturned as he travels the nation, grilling passersby for their knowledge and recipes. This video won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival.

2 pm - Carolina Hash: A Taste of South Carolina - 57 min
Finding that a stew called hash was what displaced Brunswick stew as the stew of choice in South Carolina, Stan, with the support of The Museum in Greenwood, SC, traveled the Palmetto state learning the story of the popularity and historical roots of this indigenous-to-South-Carolina-stew cooked in the black iron pots. This documentary won a CINE Golden Eagle. "Here is an example of a custom and a foodway that is so ingrained in the people and they are so closed to it that they would ask, 'Why are you doing a film about hash?' – Director, Stan Woodward

3 pm -The Morris Chronicle – 116 min
"In pursuit of documenting the old fashioned way of slow-cooking a Hog in a pit dug in the sand in Barnwell County as my ancestors once did, I ran across a gentleman named Morris Peeples. And is the case so often in my folk-life documentaries, this film became more than a film about a South Carolina folk heritage food-ways and traditional cooking by a folk food-ways artisan. I have often found that when I enter into the folk culture by way of documenting food traditions I find myself immersed in that culture and it's relationships in ways that tell a much larger story - but in ways that tell that story from the inside out. This is an intimate kind of filmmaking. It requires much trust between me as chronicler and my subject as storyteller. And as food is connected intimately to life, we end up being intimately connected to aspects of life within the folk culture that we didn't go looking for." - Stan Woodward, Producer/Director

5 pm - Southern Stew: A taste of the south - 57 min
Utilizing a team of humanities scholars and folklorists, Stan Woodward and Jay Williams made treks through Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Using his spontaneous first-person hand-held camera style, Stan takes the viewer on a journey into the stew culture and communities rarely seen but widely occuring throughout the South. This documentary was created as a companion to the Southern Stews millennial exhibition presented at McKissick Museum in 2000. The exhibition presented objects from the material culture of stew making in the South. It drew upon footage shot by Stan Woodward on his many treks throughout the South when making the Virginia Brunswick stew documentary, where the filmmaker came across stew making activities of various kinds in the black iron wash pots. This rare footage in The Woodward Studio folk life video archive was used to combine with fresh footage gathered for the documentary to make Southern Stews: A Taste of the South.

Rogers-Stout Theater #2 - International Films (Philipines) - Friday - October 12th

5pm - Rigodon -
RIGODON follows the spiritual journey's of three Filipino immigrants in New York City whose lives intertwine in the age of racial profiling and government crackdowns. Rigodon (originally a French folk dance) is a metaphor for the various colonial partnerships of the Philippines as well as the current “dance” of political spheres of influence, social groups, and individuals that immigrate to faraway lands in search of better lives who continue to go around in circles.

7pm - Edades -
The docudrama is meant to address "three levels of history: Edades' personal history; the country's political history, paralleling the growth of Filipino identity in art; and the evolution of art history, as modernism struggled to supplant classicism."Edades was proclaimed National Artist for Painting in 1976, for "changing the direction of Philippine painting decisively, ending the parochial isolation of Philippine art and placing it in the mainstream of international culture." The dramatization of his biography is contextualized and, in the process, explained by interviews with art historians and critics Alice Guillermo and Patrick Flores, artists Jaime de Guzman and Danny Dalena (Edades' former students in UST), and gallery owner Odette Alcantara.

Rogers-Stout Theater #2 - International Films (INDIA) - Saturday - October 13th

5 pm Hanuman*: Animation – 120 min
Hanuman presents the first serious and truly professional Indian effort at animated movie making. Expecting Disney like finesse would be unjust for a beginner but the makers of Hanuman did an awesome job. Disney-esque in its style of animation, the story is something which every Indian kid grows up with, its the story of the monkey God Hanuman, son of God of wind Varun and Anjani, he is an incarnation of Lord Shiva. This animation is not just for kids, adults will find it very interestingas well. Hanuman’s childhood and how he helps the Lord Shri Ram defeat Ravana and rescued the Sita with his supernatural powers is included in the film.

7:15 pm - Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham*: Bollywood – 190 min
This film shines from start to finish, and runs the gamut of emotions. The cinematography, sets, and costumes are brilliant. The sparkling performances of six of India's leading actors alone makes the movie worth seeing. Hrithik Roshan is pure eye candy for women of all ages, somehow oozing sweetness and innocent sexuality at the same time. The catchy song, “You Are My Sonjya,” and dance number Roshan performs with the lovely Kareena Kapoor at their 'prom,' is what makes the “Bollywood” genre so endearing.The other musical numbers are very enjoyable, too, and never seem out of place or at odds with the flow of the film. Shahrukh Khan is adorable, as always, as the favorite son, and can hold his own in all his dance numbers. Kajol proves to be a natural comedian. And knowing that the 'parents,' Amitabh and Jaya are a married couple in 'real life' just makes their interactions in the film that much better.

Rogers-Stout Theater #2 - International Films (SWEDEN) - Sunday - October 14th

Ingmar Bergman Retrospective

1 pm - The Seventh Seal* – 96 min
A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

2:45 pm - Smiles of a Summer Night* – 108 min
A small town at the turn of the century. Lawyer Fredrik Egerman has an ingénue-wife, Anne, and a grown-up son, Henrik, from an earlier marriage. His wife is still untouched, and instead he meets his former mistress Desiree after her performance at the theatre. They leave the theatre together and Egerman falls in one of the puddles. Desiree takes him to her home and Egerman changes into a nightshirt, owned by count Malcolm, Desiree’s present lover. Suddenly the count comes for a visit and throws Egerman out.

3:45 pm - Fanny & Alexander* – 188 min
The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town early in the twentieth century. Their parents, Oscar and Emilie, are the director and the leading lady of the local theatre company. Oscar's mother and brother are its chief patrons. After Oscar's early death, his widow marries the bishop and moves with her children to his austere and forbidding chancery. The children are immediately miserable. The film dramatizes and resolves those conflicts. A sub-plot features Isak, a local Jewish merchant who is the grandmother's lover and whose odd household becomes the children's refuge.

Jonesborough Repertory Theatre - Environmental Film Festival - Friday - October 12th

5:15 pm - Kilowatt Ours – 60 min
What would you find if you traced the wires from your light switch to their energy source? Mountain Top removal, childhood asthma, global warming, or hope? Follow filmmaker Jeff Barrie from the coalmines of West Virginia to the solar panel fields of Florida as he discovers solutions to America’s energy related problems.

6:30 pm - Appalachian Treasures – 60 min
More than 470 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. Appalachian Treasures, a multimedia presentation that features photos that capture the beauty of Appalachia as well as the modern legacy of industrial strip mining: flattened mountains and flooded communities. The video features voice recordings of local people recounting the daily struggles of life in the coalfields as well as traditional music of Appalachia. Sandra Diaz, The Field Coordinator for Appalachian Voices will be present to speak on the issues concerning mountain top removal.

7:30 pm - Sludge – 60 min
Sludge is a documentary that investigates a recent Kentucky coal waste disaster and examines the role of federal regulatory agencies in the coalfields. Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge pond in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge down two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. The spill was 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez. Filmed over four years, the documentary chronicles the aftermath of the spill, the “whistleblower” case of Jack Spadaro, and the looming threat of coal sludge ponds throughout the Appalachian Mountains.

8:30 pm - Coal Bucket Outlaw – 30 min
The U.S. Department of Energy reports that coal produces over half of our nation’s electricity. Coal Bucket Outlaw is a digital documentary that asks Americans to look at where our energy comes from, and reveals the human and environmental price we pay for our national addiction to fossil fuels. Built around a day in the life of a Kentucky coal truck driver, Coal Bucket Outlaw brings viewers into the cab of the truck and into the lives of the people who live and work by coal haul roads. It is a wild ride. A veteran driver who owns his own truck, and a young family struggling to pay the bills guide the audience along one-lane roads, up tight hollows, onto strip mines, and around coal processing facilities. Discussion of coal’s role in providing our nation with electricity connects the lives of these truckers to the lives of the viewers.

9 pm – Black Diamonds – 90 min
Waitresses, coal miners, teachers, preachers, retirees, state officials, coal industry advocates, and legal experts detail the critical issues and unfolding story of how the demolition of mountain vistas has become commonplace in West Virginia.

Jonesborough Repertory Theatre - Environmental Film Festival - Saturday - October 13th

5 pm - Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man & Buffalo Creek Revisited - 75 min
On February 26, 1972, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Company collapsed at the head of a crowded hollow in southern West Virginia. A wall of sludge, debris, and water tore through the valley below, leaving in its wake 125 dead and 4,000 homeless. Interviews with survivors, representatives of union and citizen’s groups, and officials of the Pittston Company are juxtaposed with actual footage of the flood and scenes of the ensuing devastation. As reasons for the disaster are sought out and examined, evidence mounts that company officials knew of the hazard in advance of the flood, and that the dam was in violation of state and federal regulations. The Pittston Company, however, continued to deny any wrongdoing, maintaining that the disaster was an ’an act of God.’ Filmed ten years after the flood, Buffalo Creek Revisited looks at the second disaster on Buffalo Creek, in which the survivors’ efforts to rebuild the communities shattered by the flood are thwarted by government insensitivity and a century-old pattern of corporate control of the region’s land and resources. Through the statements of survivors, planners, politicians, psychologists, and community activists, the film explores the psychology of disaster, the importance of community, and the paradox of a poor people living in a rich land.

6:30 Breaks of the Mountain – 30 min
Across America, communities are struggling with questions of development. From the urban sprawl of the Northeast, to the suburbs taking over farmlands in the Midwest, to battles over grazing and water rights in the Southwest and the struggle over clear cutting and wildlife habitat in the Northwest, communities are divided over how to use the limited land resources in our country. In the coalfields of central Appalachia, the struggle for sustainable development is intensified by a legacy of economic dependency on coal mining. The Breaks of the Mountain, Russell Fork Gorge is a half-hour video documentary about issues an Appalachian coalmining community faces while developing a tourist economy around a river gorge. The video focuses on the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River as it flows from Haysi, Virginia to Elkhorn City, Kentucky. The tape looks at the threats extractive industry present to this rare gorge, explores the promise of a sustainable ecotourism economy, and look at the threats too much tourism brings to the quality of life in a small town.

7 pm – Three Environmental Shorts from the Heartland Series – 106 min:

The Definition of Spring – 46 min.
First aried May 2007, with commercial breaks. It's the first airing of a high definition television program, shot and aired in east Tennessee. It features the unusual spring of 2007.We set out to define spring, but a hard and fast definition proves as elusive as the wind. The definition of spring remains personal, a feeling, a warming of the soul as the weather brightens and everything begins to burst forth from the insular nature of winter.

Downstream - From The Mountains To The Ocean – 30 min.
The story evolves around following a drop of water from the top of mount leconte in the Great Smoky Mountains national park, to the Gulf of Mexico. It explores a broad range of issues that occur in watersheds, lakes, streams, brooks. Segments focus on forest ecosystems at high elevations, air quality, pollution impacts, aquatic insects, coastal wetlands, and estuaries. Flowing water is the theme that lings off these diverse issures together. The theme: Nothing really goes away, it just goes downstream. Downstream was co-sponsored by the southern Appalachian man and the biosphere cooperative (samab).

Front Runner – 30 min.
This documentary was created by the folks that bring the Greater Knoxville Region the Heartland Series. Front Runner deals with the controversial issues of re-introduction of the red wolf back into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

9 pm – BLACK DIAMONDS

Numan’s - Animation Film Festival - Friday - October 12th

5pm - Ramayana -
The Legend of Prince Rama* 1992 (English)- A Japanese/Indian collaboration narrated by James Earl Jones this movie shows the journey of the life of the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The background drawings are hauntingly beautiful, and the pastel tones, lighting and composition of each animated cell makes this production a work of art. The film opens with bas-relief sculpture and narration of Rama's family background. This leads into a picturesque scene of Sage Vishvamitra and other rishis conducting a yagna fire ceremony in a forest. At that point, the animation takes over. We were immediately riveted to the screen by the realistic artwork, beautiful landscapes and exciting characters - ranging from Sita and Rama glorifying courage, goodness and dharma to Ravana and his giant asuric monsters reveling in adharmic blindness. Because the noble, underlying themes of this epic so affirm family values and virtues - such as keeping one's word and selflessly performing dharma – This film will be enjoyed by the whole family.

7 pm - Marya Morevna :28 min
An animated retelling of a classic Russian fairytale.

7:30 - 2007 Blue Plum Animation Film Festival Retrospective

Numan’s – Horror Film Festival - Satuday - October 13th

5 pm - Judy –
A tale of child abuse and revenge. This is a very disturbing short film, and not for the faint of heart.

5:30 – Budd
William Sampson Corbin, a high school English teacher, decided to simplify his name down to Budd. That’s with two Ds, but he doesn’t know why. Fired for etching punctuation marks on studends’ bodies with a black magic marker, he tries to regain some presence of mind and instill a future free of his anxiety, which has plagued him. It is an uproarious journey filled with wacky characters who pepper his existence with pathos and humor.

7:15 pm - Dark Remains –
Directed by Kingsport native Brian Avenet-Bradley, this film is his fifth horror film, which was also produced by his wife, Laurence Avenet-Bradley. The film follows their daughter's brutal murder, Julie and Allen escape the city to find solace and grieve in a solitary cabin on a remote mountain. Allen's intentions are good, he wants his wife to get out of her depression by resuming her photography. Julie stumbles across an ancient prison and sees the perfect creepy, decaying setting for her photography. But when the photos are developed they are full of dead people--and Allen quickly discovers the tragic history of suicide in their new mountain. Then it gets really scary.

9pm - Lender’s Morgan –
Colliding forces of repression and sexual curiosity in a small Southern Ohio town foster the disappearance of a young girl, Taylor Feazel. Swept away on a whirlwind of mania, she is thrust back home, everything changed yet still the same. Where is Taylor Feazel?

Brown Hall - Theater #1 –Feature Films - Friday - October 12th

5pm – Mr. Bones 112 min.
Mr. Bones is a heartwarming drama/comedy about three African American Children. The Children are thrown into a lifelong friendship as survivors of a church bus crash that killed either one or both of their parents. Carving through dark paths of three best friends, this film will leave the audience with a sense of heroism, loyalty, self-love, healing and spiritual resolve.

7pm - Welcome to Tolono –
After his release from prison on drug charges, Dean Sanders returns to his hometown of Tolono, a tiny Midwestern farming community in central Illinois. While struggling to find work, he organizes an AA meeting in the basement of the Baptist church, a meeting that attracts an odd mix of people, with varying backgrounds and addictions. Among them are Joyce Woodcock, a fifty-year-old self-described drunk, who's contemplating suicide, after a humiliating end to her thirty year marriage; Red Merrel a long-haul truck driver, who has an out-of-control sexual addiction; and Natalie Darnell a young stripper from an abusive background. Welcome To Tolono shows the struggles of real people with real problems, trying to help themselves in a small town where anonymity is impossible, and the hypocrisy of organized religion is unforgivable. As their lives intersect, friendships and alliances are formed, and tragedy is the glue that ultimately bonds them.

9pm – Sophisticated Romance –
A worldly film examines the "possibilities" in the lives of 2 couples as they explore the depths of their perplexing relationships and an attraction they now share for one other. But--What is attraction? What is commitment? What is truly possible when these two individuals meet? Filled with poetry, jazz, and mature characters, this 'slice of life' drama puts a spin on the mystery of romance and relationships from a male perspective.

Brown Hall - Theater #1 –Feature Films - Saturday - October 13th

5pm - Greetings From the Shore –
Still reeling from the death of her father, a young girl spends one last summer at the Jersey Shore before heading off to college. But when her plans fall apart, the girl stumbles into a mysterious world of Russian sailors, high stakes gambling, and unexpected love.

7pm Freedom –
In the midst of a war being fought to define political freedom, two men struggle with the truths of individual freedom and the courage that it takes to face what it really means to be free. The date was November 6, 1863. For over two-and-a-half years nearly three million Union and Confederate forces had been fighting the American Civil War. Battles both large and small had occured in thousands of places across North America. In northeast Tennessee on that cold day in November Confederate forces under the command of Gen W.E. "Grumble" Jones routed outmanned Union forces and took over 800 prisoners on a forced march to Bristol, where they would be loaded onto trains and sent to prison camps in Richmond and Andersonville. Among the prisoners were two injured men from the Seventh Ohio Cavalry: Captain Theodore Allen and Lieutenant A.A. Carr. With help from Union sympathizers and some generous but unwitting Confederates, the two men escape and make their way across the countryside. Along the way they meet Daniel Adams, a free black man who serves as a mountain pilot on the Underground Railroad, their guide to safety across the rugged mountains of east Tennessee. Before the journey ends, both men discover that freedom is something all men possess, but living that freedom can have costs they never imagined.

9 pm -Thong Girl 2 & 3 –
Thong Girl is Nashville, Tennessee's first authentic crime fighting superhero. She is the product of the warped imagination of writer/director Glen Weiss. While shopping at a lingerie store one day, Lana Layonme, an assistant district attorney, discovered a very special thong with magical powers. She found that by donning this unique red thong, she had the ability to fly. She also possessed superhuman strength and, much to her surprise (and initial shock) discovered that she was able to fire laser beams from her ass! Appealing to her inherent do-gooder nature as a crusader for legal justice, she assumed the awesome responsibility of keeping Music City , USA safe from unlawfulness and corruption in the guise of THONG GIRL! Together with her superhero sidekick BoxerBrief Boy (aka Andy Andrews, hairdresser to the country stars) Thong Girl polices the skies of Music City with an iron fist and a fiery butt, making sure the city is safe for law-abiding citizens and hat-wearing country stars alike.

Brown Hall - Theater #1 –Documentary Films - Sunday - October 14th

1 pm - Living ON – 60 min – Sponsored by the Reece Museum
The one-hour documentary by NPT Producer Will Pedigo presents the powerful testimony of Tennessee's survivors and liberators as they remember the tragedy, loss and shock of the Holocaust. Many of the featured Holocaust liberators are native Tennesseans who had experienced little outside their rural homes before confronting the beaches of Normandy and the death camps in Dachau. Holocaust survivors, who came to the state to find a new home, rebuilt their lives entirely. This documentary preserves an important part of history by capturing the first hand experiences of these incredible individuals while celebrating their lives today.

2 pm - A Profession and a Passion: Nursing in Tennessee – 60 min
This documentary has won the 'media award of the year' with the Tennessee Nurses Association. Shot in part here in Johnson City, this documentary explores nursing throughout the State of Tennessee and its impact on its citizens. Included in this film are interviews with Dean of East Tennessee State Universtiy College of Nursing, Patricia L. Smith, EdD, RN.

3 pm - Secret City – 120 min
The film provides a “virtual” visit to Y-12. The film features Y-12 as a majorpart of the Manhattan Project. The National Nuclear Security Administration and BWXT Y-12 are major sponsors of the documentary.

5 pm - Ground Truth-
This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle, and overjoyed returning faces, reunited with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario that can include illness, amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most, The Ground Truth makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its characters simply as war statistics. The film gives us glimpses into a Marine Corps boot camp that allows us to comprehend how a man or woman can kill as part of their job. We get hit with more understanding of our soldiers' dehumanization by seeing Iraq combat footage that shows routine indiscriminate killing. Their jobs over, the confusion, guilt and shame that comes home with these "killers" is the tip of the iceberg. Left with few resources and families that cannot understand what they have seen or done, their anguish only intensifies. Foulkrod's graphic footage and still-photographs of the ground conflict in Iraq, should forever shatter the sanitized images found on the nightly news and provide a much needed wake-up call for all of us.

Brown Hall - Theater #2 –African American Films Friday - October 12th Guest speaker Anthony Curtis White

5 pm - This Side of the River: 52 min
Self-determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America tells the tale of the Princeville, North Carolina, a town formed by freed slaves in the shadow of a Union army camp. This film reveals the proud history of freed slaves and their descendents who turned low-lying swamp land into a productive community governed by African-Americans. The town survived Reconstruction and Jim Crowe and is still standing tall despite a devastating direct hit by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Directed by Drew Grimes and Ryan Rowe.

6 pm -Pendemonium – 30 min
Darcy Sinclair is the new hotshot writer on the scene. His social commentary and essays have garnered him fame. He prepares to write his first book; funny thing is he’s come down with a serious case of writer’s block. The electric high takes the edge off of things. Darcy soon finds himself writing again. Unfortunately, his small habit has become a monumental addiction. It is here Darcy witnesses firsthand the whirlwind affects of substance abuse. Through this obsession, he pens his first novel “Writer’s Block, a Love Story.” It’s the story of love and discipline. Darcy’s reality has become skewed-addiction is love and cocaine takes on the form of a black woman (TEMPTATION) He’s not only writing the story but living it. She soon becomes his muse and distraction and he wonders if he can write without her. It is here they both embark on a journey through art, seduction, and torment. Unbeknownst to Darcy Sinclair he is about to write his greatest work—his life.

6:30 Baba King - :15 –
Three Kilos. Two Brothers. One Decision. After a career-ending injury cuts short his dreams of playing college basketball, eighteen-year-old Baba King must make a decision. Forced to walk his little brother to the bus stop with a backpack full of cocaine, Baba’s decision will ultimately impact both their lives.

6:45 Blind Tom: The Last Legal Slave in America - :45 –
Blind Tom was born in 1849. His dazzling skills at the piano enthralled audiences worldwide. “Blind Tom” mesmerized even President Buchanan and a crowd of luminaries at a command performance at the White House. Few remember, however, that “Blind Tom” remained a slave – the last legal slave – until 1908.

7:30 Timeout 20 min
This story is about a single young mom (Daniela Mendez) trying to balance life in today's society. She finds it very difficult to juggle between work, her Seven year old son (Anthony Mendez) and her love life. Daniela finds herself in a bad situation when Anthony ran away from home because she refuse to spend time with him.

8 pm DK-24: 10 min.
Directed by Shimon Starfury, the story of "DK-24" is about a professor of this normal time who found a way of making Dark Matter. Dark Matter, according to scientist makes up 80% of the universe but can never be seen because the matter itself does not reflect light. It is also now proven by NASA scientist that Dark Matter was part of the "Big Bang" which created the universe. The professor, while discovering this great achievement, did not know he was being watch by GI-Joe's enemy Cobra which live inside a Dark Matter Universe 500 years in the future. The Cobra Leader "Silo" was sent back in time to the professor lab to retrieve the Dark Matter. And soon follow the GI-Joe soldiers to rescue him.

8:15 pm I'M THROUGH WITH WHITE GIRLS (The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks) Run time: 89 min.
Jay Brooks is that Black guy who digs indie rock,graphic novels, and dates white chicks. After a slew of break-ups, Jay goes on a mission: “Operation Brown Sugar”. But Jay doesn’t fit the “brotha” stereotype and he fails miserably with the “sistahs.” Then he meets Catherine, a misunderstood “Half-Afri-Canadian”, who’s as righteously quirky as he is. Jay struggles as he realizes commitment is a bigger issue than race.I'M THROUGH WITH WHITE GIRLS, written by Courtney Lilly (Arrested Development, Everybody Hates Chris),is a quirky romantic-comedy addressing race, class, and cultural identity in America.

9:45 Man up 20 min
A returning Gulf War veteran deals with fatherhood and divorce.

Brown Hall - Theater #2 –African American Films Saturday - October 13th

5 pm We There: Too Much Drama for Yo Mama…An’ Yo Daddy! : 33 min.
A directorial collaboration between Jonesborough local and drama therapist Janna Browning, San Francisco drama therapist Rena Marie Jones, and San Francisco filmmakers Maria Breaux and Amal Kouttab, this story brings to light the three-dimensionality of those living “on the front line.”We There: Too Much Drama 4 Yo Mama...An’ Yo Daddy! consists of nine African-American teens, all from Bayview/ Hunters Point. The group met for three hours each week all summer with group leaders, drama therapists Rena Marie Jones and Janna Browning. Together they shared, processed, and cataloged stories from their lives through drama therapy. In the end, the stories were organized, small details changed, characters created, and a new, collective story was created for the film. It can be said that tragedy breeds not only great pain, but great creativity. In March 2007, 17-year-old Antwanisha Morgan was shot and killed by a bullet meant for the friend standing next to her. After Antwanisha’s death, the focus dramatically shifted, and in just two weeks the group rewrote the performance they’d been working on for three months. Instead, they created a stage piece processing the death of their friend. The resulting show, performed at the Bayview Opera House, was dedicated to Antwanisha, and included skits of their memories of her, and monologues, raps, and dance performances expressing their grief. Based on real stories from the lives of the ensemble cast, We There explores what it’s like growing up in the Bayview Hunters Point district of San Francisco.

5:45 pm Drama Mamas! - :15 min –
This documentary celebrates the work of black women theatre directors. Although “Drama Mamas!” is still in post-production at the moment the film’s producers have an excellent short available. It has already been featured in the Reel Sisters Film Festival at Long Island University and the National Black Theater Festival in Winston - Salem NC. Drama Mamas! was also presented the Storyteller Award at the 1st Urban Theatre & Entertainment Awards at Florida Memorial University

6:00 pm Drawing Angel – 20 min.
Lonely and new to the city, Samantha befriends Levi, a nine year old boy displaced by Hurricane Katrina. This film introduces child actor Omar Wiseman and stars Michelle Graci, Steven Rishard (Law & Order, SVU) and the phenomenal singer and actor, Vanessa Williams

6: 25 The Life Project - :28 –
This film tells of the old cliché; never judge a book by its cover, or in this case, a person by his or her cover. This film also shows the life of a family whose mom and wife have just walked out on them and leaves a father to raise thirteen-year-old twins. His role in the family has always been to provide, but now he finds that his son is looking to him for much more. Everyone’s life changes when a homeless woman, who has been dealt a cold hand in life, is unknowingly chosen by the daughter to be the subject of her school project. The homeless woman helps them to pick up the pieces and move on with their life, and in return, her dream of going to college comes true when the father of the twins offers to pay her tuition. But this is done after the father discovers her criminal past. There are two sides to every story, and she has a touching story to tell. This film hopes to spread the message that each one can teach one, and that we all must be willing to learn from the people we encounter regardless of what package they come in. Color, gender, age, or social economic status should never be an issue whenever we are blessed with the opportunity to learn and listen to someone’s life or story. My Sister’s House has graciously extended their aid and support by allowing some of the filming to take place there. It is a film for families the world over. Directed/produced by: Zina Brown Written by: Sherita Bolden A project of Life’s Dreams Productions.

6:55 UTTERANCE! - :6 min
Fleeting moments and unrequited love collide in this tale of obsession and the power of love unsaid. A young man comes face to face with vivid memories of his lover in the wake of her disappearance.

7:05 Defining Moments 17 min
"Defining Moments" is the story of Charmagne, a young adult woman who has obeyed the rules of her strict religious upbringing all her life--especially since her own spiritual experience one year ago. But when it comes to her boyfriend, Jonathan, she finds that the rules of faith when it comes to sex and sexuality are not as simple as they sound. Stuck between the conformity of her mother and the naivete of her younger sister, Charmagne comes to discover her true er as a woman.

8:30 Zero Posterity 115 min.
A woman shows up at Jame's house with an eight year old boy, claiming that he, James, is the father. James doesn't know her. He is pressured into taking a paternity test and to his surprise, he is found to be the father. James is puzzled, but now he has to defend that which he doesn't understand.

10:30 Eye Was Blind 75 min
Eye Was Blind is a suspense thriller love story about a schoolteacher who allows herself to fall in love again after the tragic death of her husband. She becomes romantically involved with a charismatic businessman and unknowingly becomes entangled in his web of betrayal and deceit. This riveting movie explores family, religious, infidelity and interracial issues that exist in today's society.

Brown Hall - Theater #2 –GLBT Sunday - October 14th

1 pm Maurice* 140 min
Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.

3:30pm Room with a View* 117 min
Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return to England, Lucy must decide whether to follow through with her marriage to her stotic fiance, Cecil, or follow her heart and her growing attraction to George.

5:30pm To A Tee –
A Nashville Playwright falls for dark and handsome, yet troublesome (read: cheating) guy. Rinse and repeat. Playwright then steals best friend’s dark and handsome, yet troublesome boyfriend (all four brooding men are played sublimely by the same actor, driving home the point that one is sometimes stubbornly fixated on the wrong type of guy).

6:45 Music videos by new Gay recording artist.

Ball Hall - Slocumb Gallery’s Artist in Film – Friday, October 12th

5 pm INSPIRED FOLK – Outsider Artist Of West Virginia 60 min.
This hour-long film examines the lifelong work often exceptional West Virginia artists- their motives, inspirations, obsessions and their world view- artist whose work is so unique that it makes us question all the ways we define art. To find answers the film takes the viewer deep into the artists’ creative spaces and their minds. The ten artists were found in such unlikely places as prisons, senior centers, remote West Virginia hollows, and the streets of Baltimore. The art includes the work of a "lifer" in prison, a paranoid schizophrenic, a reclusive chair maker, expressive wood carvers, an obsessive-compulsive collector, a race-car driver/artist, a junk sculptor, a believer in faith-healing and more. A nationally recognized authority on the subject helps put the work into the context of folk art in general and specifically outsider art. The resulting film is a fascinating glimpse into motivations unlike any in the generally accepted genres of artistic expression.

6pm All Rendered Truth: Raw Visions from the American South 60 min.
All Rendered Truth: Raw Visions from the American South is a fascinating documentary that allows self-taught artists to talk about their art, their inspirations, and their lives. The film features celebrates the work of such well-known figures as Mose Tolliver, Jimmy Lee Sudduth and R.A. Miller. Produced by Patrick Long and Scott Blackwell.

7 pm Dancing Outlaw – 96 min
Nestled deep within the heart of the mountains of Boone County, West Virginia reigns a King. The King - Jesco White, The Dancing Outlaw. Jesco is a living legend. The last of the Mountain Dancers, his style is unique to the mountain culture. Resembling tap dancing, it's a tradition passed down from father to son - as were his dancing shoes. His dance floor? An 8 by 4 piece of plywood or the roof of his canine companion Duke's doghouse. His venue? The front yard, the den of Jesco's and Norma Jean's trailer, or any place the spirit moves.

8:45 pm Wild Wheels
Wild Wheels celebrates eccentric Americans and their love of art cars. The filmmaker, proud owner of an art car himself, discovers he is not alone and he travels the country documenting art cars and their equally colorful owners. Directed by Harrod Blank.

Ball Hall - Saturday - October 13th

5:00 pm - The Importance of Being Russell
Somewhere deep in the backwoods of America, nestled between the Hands-Free Taco Eating Machine and the Universal Smileriffic Fancy Camera, sits the greatest invention in the history of mankind. A device so powerful, so important, and so secret that the inventor himself, Russell Hawker, isn't even sure what it does. On the verge of his tenth wedding anniversary, Russell is mired in self-doubt. His inventions have yet to take off. Adding insult to injury, his wife Sissy buys similar items off of the Cranium Concepts Best Bargain Network. Backed into a corner, Russell's only way out is to find his 'importance' and prove his worth. With a cryptic voice from the TV urging him to build a new invention, Russell solves the paradoxes of time travel and long distance telecommunications without roaming fees. His creation, the Time Machine Telephone, will revolutionize....everything. But is it the answer he's searching for? As Russell and Sissy plan to renew their vows, dark forces gather to split them apart. Despite Sissy's pleas, Russell, Harlan, and Jamon take off for Big City. Will they survive the road, 'bumpin' it', the 'citified people', and their green needle s**t. Will Russell discover his 'importance'? Will Patricia Van de Meer and her minions 'citify' the world? Or will Sissy find her man and defy the forces of time to save their marriage?

Student Saturday Night Film Festival
Student films begin at 7 and run till 10. Come see what the future holds in the world of moving pictures, animation and sound. A wide variety of subjects and styles presented, you will be pleasantly surprised, possibly shocked.

Ball Hall - Silent Film Sunday - October 14th

1 pm Cat & the Canary 1927 –
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. This film is the first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle as being unstable.

2:30 pm Phantom of the Opera 1925 –
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What's his goal ? What's his secret ? Carl Lemmale, head of the new Universal Pictures in Hollywood, made the silent film version of The Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney in the lead. Leroux, the author of the novel, was impressed by this, but two years later he died. Since then, Phantom of the Opera has become so popular it has inspired five feature remakes, one in 1943, another in 1962, again in 1989. A television version in 1990 was also made and then recently remade in 1999. The novel was also made into a major London & stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Gaston Leroux will forever be remembered for The Phantom of the Opera.

4:00 Vampyr 1932 -
Directed by Carl Dreyer, The Village Voice, in their 250 best films of the 20th Century, ranked Vampyr at #202. Young traveler Allan Grey arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights (a man whose shadow has a life of its own, a mysterious scythe-bearing figure tolling a bell, a terrifying dream of his own burial). Things come to a head when one of the daughters of the lord of the castle succumbs to anemia - or is it something more sinister.

5:30 Haphazard Happenings – 60 min.
"Haphazard Happenings with Purdie and Friends"is a 21st Century Silent Film Trilogy in the tradition of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Laurel and Hardy! Filmed as modern day slapstick comedies, these films feature Purdie as he deals with such raging villains as: The Strawberry Stallion, Buddy Irk, Iza Boozehound, Officer Madalot, and C.W. Hardhat! With loads of love and laughter, Purdie struggles through the modern life with plenty of falls to the earth and bumps on the noggin!