PRESS RELEASE
Tour Returns To Capri Theatre September 8 | |
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The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts in Atlanta which brings independent filmmakers and their films to venues throughout the South. This year's tour presents six filmmakers and their films who will appear from September to April.
This year's tour features documentaries, narrative fiction and animation. Each filmmaker will present their film at the Capri Theatre followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience. All showings are Thursday at 7:30pm and are open to the public.
Thursday, September 8 · 7:30 Surviving Hitler: A Love Story
The tour kicks off on Thursday, September 8 with Surviving Hitler: A Love Story, a documentary with director John Keith Wasson.
Surviving Hitler: A Love Story is the story of Jutta, a teenager in Nazi Germany who is shocked to discover she is Jewish. She joins the German resistance and meets Helmuth, an injured soldier. The two become sweethearts and coconspirators in the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler. Surviving Hitler: A Love Story is a harrowing tale of war, resistance and survival. At the center of the documentary is a love story for the ages, original 8mm footage (shot by Helmuth) and, miraculously, a happy ending.
Thursday, October 13 · 7:30 Mars
This will be followed on Thursday, October 13 with the animated feature Mars presented by Director, Producer, Writer Geoff Marslett.
Mars concerns a new space race between NASA and the ESA where Charlie Brownsville, Hank Morrison, and Dr. Casey Cook compete against an artificially intelligent robot to find out what's up there on the red planet. MARS follows these three astronauts on the first manned mission to our galactic neighbor. On the way they experience life threatening accidents, self doubts, obnoxious reporters, and the boredom of extended space travel.
This romantic comedy is told in the playful style of a graphic novel- using a unique animation process that director Geoff Marslett developed specifically for the film. Underneath the silliness Mars is also an exploration of exploration. Why do we want to know what is out there? How do we react to what we find? Is it really that important? And where does love fit into the whole thing?
Thursday, November 10 · 7:30 World's Largest
The third film of the Fall tour will feature the documentary World's Largest presented by co-director Amy Elliot on Thursday, November 10.
World's Largest is a cross country visit to small towns desperate for tourism, which claim "world's largest" things, from 15-foot fiberglass strawberries to 40-foot concrete pheasants. World's Largest visits 58 such sites (including Clanton's Peach and Enterprise's Boll Weevil ) and profiles Soap Lake, Washington's five-year struggle to build the World's Largest Lava Lamp. By documenting these roadside attractions, World's Largest captures the changing, perhaps even vanishing, culture of small-town America.
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