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2021 Official Selection film: Lily Frame Lightforc 2021 Official Selection film: Lily Frame Lightforce, Loveforce, Lifeforce .. A personal essay film documenting the struggles of a budding artist with ADHD. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #lightforce #loveforce #lifeforce #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Justin Zimmerman Jac 2021 Official Selection film: Justin Zimmerman Jack the Radio: “Creatures” .. Jack confronts creatures, both real and imaginary, on an animated visual roller coaster of art, created with some of the comic world’s finest artists. Jack emerges triumphant, reborn—and as lead singer of the best band around. The art from Jack the Radio’s album Creatures comes from more than 20 of the best comic creators in the world, each handling their own piece in their own style. That art was then animated and edited into the final music video as individual shots. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #jacktheradiocreatures #LongleafFilmFestival
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2021 Official Selection film: Kemari Bryant Inspac 2021 Official Selection film: Kemari Bryant Inspace .. An unconventional narrative, this film follows the filmmaker’s experience growing up in a predominantly White school and how that has shaped who he is today—and ways he has overcome that to find joy. The film was made possible through a grant provided by Visionary Justice StoryLab, a film collective based in Atlanta that innovates at the intersection of story, culture, and media by bringing together writers, artists, media makers, and cultural workers to evolve narratives rooted in imagination and liberation. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #Inspace #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Jeffrey Paul Whelan 2021 Official Selection film: Jeffrey Paul Whelan and Clarence Goss In the Face of Adversity: The Service and Legacy of African American Veterans of World War II .. These interviews with African American veterans from World War II share the struggles and triumphs of serving in the US military, in wartime, during the era of segregation and Jim Crow—the triumphs leading to an eventual transformation of the military toward integration of all armed forces. The project features veterans who reside in the state of North Carolina and was a cooperative effort between the North Carolina Museum of History, faculty and students at Elizabeth City State University, and the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs with support from the North Carolina Humanities Council. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #worldwar2 #veterans #africanamerican #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Echo Wilson In Our N 2021 Official Selection film: Echo Wilson In Our Nature .. This animated documentary explores humanity’s relationship with nature through a world of interviewed “animals.” .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #inournature #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: AhDream Smith Happy 2021 Official Selection film: AhDream Smith Happy Anniversary .. A story about unfulfilled expectations, conceived from an original monologue written out of frustration due to how higher-level institutions were not showing up for their students, especially at the graduate level. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #happyanniversary #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Todd Tinkham Gunpowd 2021 Official Selection film: Todd Tinkham Gunpowder and Paperboy .. A teenage pyromaniac falls in love with a classmate dressed in paper. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #GunpowderandPaperboy #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Anita Clark-Anderson 2021 Official Selection film: Anita Clark-Anderson girl with the red backpack .. Get off your phone. Pay attention! You never know what you might see. Follow the girl (Sophie Anderson) with the red backpack as she makes a discovery. .. Filmed as a one-shot film—the camera might pan to the sky and come back down to another scene, or the camera might follow the actor. The challenge is to make it appear as if it has been filmed in one long take by a single camera. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #girlwiththeredbackpack #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Josh Swope From Here 2021 Official Selection film: Josh Swope From Here .. An adoptive father attempts to bond with his withdrawn daughter by taking her on a hunt for the first time. .. According to the filmmaker, this film is loosely based on a true story from his wife’s childhood. He started writing it when they were dating, and they shot the film six months after they were married. .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #FromHere #LongleafFilmFestival
2021 Official Selection film: Sterling Hurst Fred’s Dead .. An easily spooked girlfriend discovers her dead boyfriend’s spirit has taken up residence in a wall-mounted deer head in the living room! .. Watch LIVE, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 7 p.m., when we announce our 2021 Longleaf award and prize winners! #LFF2021 #filmfestival #virtual #FredsDead #LongleafFilmFestival
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
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