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A Summer’s Day

Posted April 10, 2018April 11, 2018 Sally

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2021 Official Selection film: Anne Ward and Chip W 2021 Official Selection film: Anne Ward and Chip Williams Fog Likely Farm: An Appalachian Story .. After a difficult divorce, Susie Winters, a young mother with two small daughters, moves from the Piedmont of North Carolina to a run-down, Civil War-era farmhouse in the Appalachian Mountains. As she works to pursue her dreams and redefine herself in the years that follow, Susie meets a young woodworker named David Sengel. Together, they create a new life for themselves as artists and farmers and transform the farmhouse and land into a place of exquisite contentment and beauty called Fog Likely Farm. This is an Appalachian story of heartache, resilience, beauty and love. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #AnAppalachianStory #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Samantha Nolte Fair 2021 Official Selection film: Samantha Nolte Fair Haven .. After 11 years, a burned-out hardcore band vocalist returns to his small New Jersey hometown after his father’s death during the holidays. .. Filming started with snow, and, when it melted during filming with no snow in the forecast, the crew was worried about continuity. Then, the night before exterior scenes had to be shot, a freak snowfall re-covered the ground. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #fairhaven #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Joey Moore Europa . 2021 Official Selection film: Joey Moore Europa .. If she has any hope of having a normal relationship with her boyfriend, Amelia, an adolescent vampire in the 1950s, must attempt to suppress her thirst for blood. .. Director Joey Moore and his team are 2020 graduates from the School of Filmmaking, UNC School of the Arts, in Winston-Salem, where they also found one of the locations featured in their film: Reynolda House and gardens. Moore notes that this Europa is not only a genre film; it “allows us to gain a new frame of reference on the struggles we face, to learn something more about ourselves. Europa is about growing up, leaving innocence behind, accepting who you are…it just also happens to be about blood, the full moon, and creatures of the night.” .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #Europa #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Rebecca Walters éch 2021 Official Selection film: Rebecca Walters échappé .. When faced with the opportunity to perform solo, an aging dancer must question whether her moral compass and personal integrity are important enough to stand up to a choreographer’s unwanted sexual advances. .. Becca Walters and her team are 2020 graduates of the School of Filmmaking, UNC School of the Arts. Becca’s second-year film, Tanglefoot, made with the same lead dancer/actress, was also previously screened at Longleaf. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #échappé #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Walter Haussner Dulc 2021 Official Selection film: Walter Haussner Dulce et Decorum Est .. This performance of World War I poet Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” is from the perspective of a grandfather and World War I veteran whose grandson is serving in Vietnam, ca. 1967. “What a wonderful rendering of Dulce. I think that is the best I have ever heard,” said Elizabeth Owen (president of the Wilfred Owen Association and widow of Peter Owen, nephew of Wilfred Owen) about actor Steven Oliver’s performance. “I feel that Steven must have experienced dreadful things—I hope I am wrong and that he is just an amazing actor, but the way it comes from him is from his heart and soul. He is not just reciting it.” .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #DulceetDecorumEst #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Lizzie Bankowski Dea 2021 Official Selection film: Lizzie Bankowski Dead in the Water .. If we are to mitigate environmental damage, we need to start with the monster in our own backyard: unsustainable industrial farms. .. This film was made by five students at University of North Carolina–Wilmington, as their senior thesis project, and it carried them through four semesters of work, from research and preproduction through postproduction. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #DeadintheWater #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Victoria Cruell Cycl 2021 Official Selection film: Victoria Cruell Cycling .. A young woman recounts her difficulty in coping with painful inner emotions by reliving a series of memories in which her feelings are represented by different forms of water. .. This animated film was written and directed by Victoria Cruell, a 2020 graduate of the School of Filmmaking, UNC School of the Arts. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #Cycling #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Jordan Ellis Crossin 2021 Official Selection film: Jordan Ellis Crossing Over the Dark .. A withered old man metaphysically recalls the deepest memories of his late lover. Made in two days, with a crew of about ten people, this film was shot at an abandoned hospital in Yadkinville (Yadkin County) and features Ted Johnson—who has played parts in productions that included Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (2012) and Watchmen (HBO, 2019)—and Dana McBride, a developing actress with several credits to her name. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #CrossingOvertheDark #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Justin Meckes Comic 2021 Official Selection film: Justin Meckes Comic Book Hero: A Procrastinator’s Guide .. This mini documentary explores the work of amateur comic book writer Lee Stutts as he finishes the first draft of a new comic book—while battling procrastination. COVID-19 also led to some rather unexpected scenes and reshaped the end of this film after one or two more planned shoots were cancelled. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #ComicBookHero #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Alex Maness and Jim 2021 Official Selection film: Alex Maness and Jim Haverkamp Bury the Light .. This dance/music film about mourning rituals, lost souls, and how to deal with the living was shot, in part, at the tallest living sand dune on the East Coast. It’s right here in North Carolina: Jockey’s Ridge State Park, the Outer Banks. The music featured is performed by the Bipeds, a Durham-based dance-music-theater ensemble. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #BuryTheLight #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Abi Cole Between the 2021 Official Selection film: Abi Cole Between the Lines: Liz at Large .. Liz Montague, the first Black female cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, discusses her process and how cartoons can be critical vehicles for social commentary. .. This short film was shot shortly before COVID-19 lockdowns—all in one day with a one-person crew, and the filmmaker connected with the subject by cold emailing her—and wishing for the best! .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #lizatlarge #BetweentheLines #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Lily Newton Bait & T 2021 Official Selection film: Lily Newton Bait & Tackle .. Fourteen-year-old Kimmy meets a woman dressed like a mermaid in the motel parking lot! .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #Bait&Tackle #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Caitlin Donnelly Art 2021 Official Selection film: Caitlin Donnelly Artificial .. When gifted with an A.I. child meant to replace her recently deceased daughter, a grieving mother must learn to love the robotic intruder that is so clearly not what she thought it would be. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #Artificial #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Andrew Huggins And 2021 Official Selection film: Andrew Huggins And Then the Darkness .. A pharmacist seeks revenge against the man who took everything from him. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #AndThenTheDarkness #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Thomas Parrish V and 2021 Official Selection film: Thomas Parrish V and Zachary Parrish 75° West .. Civilization has fallen and two brothers now wander through a post-pandemic world, trying to survive as they travel across the US countryside. Their destination: 75° West, surviving as best they can on what they find while trying to avoid human dangers along the way. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #75°West #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Margaret Tower 2,190 2021 Official Selection film: Margaret Tower 2,190 Miles .. A young couple, Mark and Katie, thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. Mark is planning to propose to Katie at some point on the 2,190-mile journey, but he panics about finding the perfect moment to pop the question. .. This film was shot in August 2020 following very strict COVID-19 protocols to keep students safe: students and cast never gathered or met indoors during the entirety of principal photography, and a majority of the film was shot in Mill Mountain Park in Roanoke, Virginia, rather than on the actual Appalachian Trail. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #2190Miles #virtual #LongleafFilmFestival
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