Coastal Companion

Your ultimate guide to the coast

Amelia Island Film Festival Screening – Fernandina, Florida

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2008 Inaugural Season Screenings of La Vie en Rose (2007), in French with English subtitles, at the Palace Saloon plus shorts films about Fernandina Beach’s Shrimping Industry and Shrimp Festival Boat Races. Tickets: $10. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Tickets go on sale beginning Friday January 4th, 2008 at UPS Store, Alexander’s, Susi and Last Flight Out, Chamber of Commerce. For more information please call 904.355.1110 or visit the website at www.ameliaislandfilmfestival.org.

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Film Screening of the documentary King Corn – Savannah, GA

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Reel Savannah and the Telfair Museum of Art present King Corn.
This new must-see documentary that just opened in New York City tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find is the horrifying reality of how we farm and what we eat and how it has been destroying America’s health and future. (92 minutes) Jepson Center for the Arts/Neises Auditorium

Hell on Wheels – Jacksonville, Florida

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2001: The birth of an all-girl roller derby revolution begins in Austin, Texas. Starting a revolution ain’t an easy affair. After overcoming countless hurdles to organize, recruit and train, the rowdy rollergirls known as Bad Girl, Good Woman (BGGW) enjoy a smashingly successful first year, only to find a rift forming among the ranks of the 80 women.

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Into Great Silence – Jacksonville, Florida

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Nestled deep in the postcard-perfect French Alps, the Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world’s most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back to him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks’ quarters for six months—filming their daily prayers, tasks, rituals and rare outdoor excursions. This transcendent, closely observed film seeks to embody a monastery, rather than simply depict one—it has no score, no voice over and no archival footage. What remains is stunningly elemental: time, space and light. One of the most mesmerizing and poetic chronicles of spirituality ever created, INTO GREAT SILENCE dissolves the border between screen and audience with a total immersion into the hush of monastic life. More meditation than documentary, it’s a rare, transformative theatrical experience for all.

For Into Great Silence website and trailer, click here.

Film FestSunday, December 9, 2007 at 1:00 PM. San Marco Theatre
Tickets: $5 for Friends of the Fest members, $7 Seniors, Students & Military,$8 General Public. (Note: REEL Peeps will be honored thru current membership expiration dates)Tickets (if available) will also be available at the door.
Click here to purchase Friends of the Fest membership.