John Sayles received the prestigous life-time achievement award for directing at Savannah Film Festival this fall. At this time the film was screened, but if you missed it, here’s your chance. There will be a special free screening of Honeydripper on Tuesday, February 5 at 7:30 p.m. presented by the Lucas Theatre, Black Heritage Festival and the Savannah Film Society. This show is free and open to the public.
There will also be a special appearance by the film’s director (John Sayles) and producer (Maggie Renzi) immediately following the film.
SCAD Students Named Finalists for Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award
Filmmaking team one of only 10 in the nation to advance to competition finals
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Savannah College of Art and Design undergraduate students Colin Levy and Roque Smith-Nonini have been named finalists for the 2008 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award competition. Their team is one of only 10 in the nation to reach the final round of competition.
The annual Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker’s Award competition is by invitation only, and SCAD was one of just 13 colleges in the United States asked to participate, marking the college’s second consecutive invitation.
Documentary Gullah Film Fest – Hilton Head, South Carolina
Hosted by Dr. Emory S. Campbell – Double Feature Finale on Monday, February 18, 2008, 7 p.m.
Remnants of Mitchelville
This documentary film produced by Jimmy Henderson of Columbia, South Carolina, focuses on the history and legacy of Mitchelville. Henderson tells through a variety of visual formats film, video tape, newspapers, photographs, and memorabilia…†At its peak, Mitchelville, South Carolina, one of the first settlements for freed men in the United States, was a bustling, energetic beach township, boasting almost 1500 residents.
Documentary Gullah Film Fest – Hilton Head, South Carolina
Documentary Gullah Film Fest
Hosted by Dr. Emory S. Campbell
God’s Gonna Trouble the Water
Narrator Ruby Dee relates the little-known history of the ancestors of African-American slaves who settled in the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia. Scholars and locals recount the history of the Gullah people, and discuss the influences of praise houses, West African songs and dances, and the Gullah language on African-American customs and lifestyle. The history of the Gullah people — descendants of West African slaves who formed a culture distinctly their own in the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia. They continue to practice their dialect, diet, religion, music, arts and ethnicity today in Beaufort County.
Admission – Donation – Coligny Theater, Coligny Plaza. Monday, February 11, 7 p.m
For more information about the Gullah Celebration, please visit their website.
Gullah-Geechee Documentary – Hilton Head, South Carolina
The Will to Survive: The Story of the Gullah-Geechee Nation
Narrated by Harry Lennix, star of ABC’s “Commander in Chief,” the hour-long documentary of these slave descendants gives us a glimpse of what have been described as the most authentic African-American communities in the United States. The documentary was filmed on Sapelo Island, 16,000 acres of land located 60 miles off the coast of Savannah, Georgia and chronicles the struggles and triumphs of the Gullah and Geechee people, who were first brought from Africa to isolated islands near Georgia, U.S.A.