The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of the Southern Arts Federation, a not-for-profit regional arts organization making a positive difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. Southern Arts Federation is supported by funding and programming partnerships with the National Endowment for the Arts and the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. For more information on the Southern Arts Federation and its programs visit www.southarts.org.
All films are FREE and do not require a ticket
Shame
by Mohammed Nagvi
Film Trailer
Friday, Sept. 5, 8pm
Room 309 Simons Center for the Arts
The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening.
In the summer of 2002, in a remote village of Pakistan, 30-year-old Mukhtaran Mai's life changed when the village tribal council sanctioned a punishment against her for a crime allegedly committed by her younger brother. Following the tribal custom of "honor for honor," Mai was gang-raped and then publicly paraded around as an example. Her family cowered in shame. The village shunned her. Normally, the only recourse for such a woman would be suicide. Instead, Mai set out to seek justice and shook the very core of Pakistan's decaying judicial system. Naqvi's compelling documentary beautifully portrays Mai's tragic journey and redemptive transformation into a human rights icon and a local leader for social change. "Shame" has received numerous awards, including a Television Academy Honor presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Naqvi was born in Montreal and grew up in Canada, the United States and Pakistan. His other notable films include "Terror's Children," which launched the Discovery-Times Channel, and "Big River," for which he served as producer, working with renowned Japanese director Takeshi Kitano. His work has been showcased in numerous film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and at additional venues such as the United Nations and the Museum of Modern Art. Just some of the awards Naqvi has received include an Overseas Press Club of America Award, Amnesty International Humanitarian Award, EBS International Documentary Festival Special Jury Prize, and a Full Frame Documentary Film Festival Award. He is also an AFI: Project 20/20 fellow, an initiative co-sponsored by the NEA, NEH, the U.S. State Department, and The President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Currently, Naqvi heads the programming at his production company, Tight Media, where he develops and produces programming for several networks including MTV, Current, CNN, and CBS-Paramount.
Beyond the Call
by Adrian Belic
Film Trailer
Friday, Oct. 10, 8pm
Room 309 Simons Center for the Arts
The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening.
Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman are three middle-aged men whose idea of adventure is taking desperately needed food and medicine into the world's most forbidding yet naturally beautiful places, often at the front lines of war.
Following the motto of "High Adventure and Service to Humanity," their specialty is going where death from landmines, bullets or bombs is as frequent as death from hunger, disease or the elements, helping out in places that other aid organizations deem too dangerous. One of the most honored documentaries in recent memory, "Beyond the Call" inspires as it entertains. The film has screened at more than 100 film festivals on five continents and has garnered 35 awards. Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, this compelling story has received the Washington DC International Film Festival Audience Award, the Telluride Mountain Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, the Palm Springs International Film Festival Best of Festival award, the Santa Fe Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and the Taos Film Festival Human Rights Award, among numerous other awards and honors.
About the Filmmaker:
"Beyond the Call" was created by Adrian and Roko Belic, the brothers who developed the Sundance Audience Award winner and Academy Award-nominated "Genghis Blues." Together they own and operate Wadi Rum Productions. Accompanying "Beyond the Call" on the Southern Circuit Tour, Adrian Belic is a member of the Film Arts Foundation and the International Documentary Association. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has served as director of an environmental information center in Los Angeles. Born in the U.S. and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he spent many summers during his childhood behind the "Iron Curtain" in Eastern Europe with his family from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
Tjúba Tén
(The Wet Season) and Other Experimental Ethnographies)
by Ben Russell
More Info
Friday, Nov. 7, 8pm
Room 309 Simons Center for the Arts
The filmmaker will be available for Q&A after the screening.
“Tjúba Tén” (“The Wet Season”)is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle
In addition to “Tjúba Tén” (“The Wet Season”), Russell’s screenings will feature three additional experimental ethnographies: “Daumë,” “The Red and the Blue Gods,” and “Black and White Trypps Number Three.”
About the Filmmaker:
Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator and experimental film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from 14th-century Belgian monasteries to 17th-century East India Trading Company buildings, from police station basements to outdoor punt squats, from Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art. Russell began the Magic Lantern screening seris in
