Coastal Companion

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The Art of Travel Film – Jacksonville, FL

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The screening of The Art of Travel is $8.00 at The New Jacksonville Landing Cinematheque
Corner Layne is on top of the world. Life seems to be going in the ideal direction until his marriage comes crumbling down at the alter. In the wake of a disastrous betrayal of his best friend and wife-to-be, Conner decides to take the honeymoon solo to Central America, the place of his mother’s birth (Maria Conchita Alonso). In Panama, he joins an expedition to travel through the Darien Gap: 125 miles of jungle in Central America. “The Art of Travel” is about the twists and turns in the jungle of life. Inside these moments are new friends and adventures, even in the wake of our darkest moments.

For more information visit our website at www.filmfestival.jacksonville.com

Dance of my heart film – Jacksonville, FL

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Ricardo Acosta’s “Dance of My Heart” is a sensitive, well documented portrait of the Cuban dancer/choreographer Alberto Alonso. The co-creator of the Cuban classical ballet style and the choreographer of Carmen Suite, Alonso, up until December 2007, lived his last years working every day at Santa Fe Community College in north Florida. He danced with some of the most important ballet dancers of the 21st century and taught his students how to dance with the same passion and professionalism he used his entire life. The film is not only an ode to the Nestor of classical Cuban dance, but also an ode to the power of art, the power of love and the power of beauty that will not succumb to the power of time. The sensuality that is the heartbeat of Cuban dance is beautifully reflected in Alonso’s timeless choreography and in the vibrant editing by Ricardo Acosta in his directorial debut. Dance of my heart is an inspiring documentary that makes you want to dance and swing on the powerful energy of love and life that cannot be destroyed by time and age.

For more information visit our website at www.filmfestival.jacksonville.com

Opening Night Latino Film Festival – Jacksonville, FL

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An Evening with Director Leon Ichaso

From 6 – 7:30 p.m. VIP Cocktail Reception at The Jacksonville Landing Cinematheque, sponsored by Bacardi and HavanaJax. From 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Tribute and Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation, this will include film retrospective and Q & A. From 8:30 – Midnight The Winn-Dixie Stage Presents – Opening Night Celebration in the Jacksonville Landing Courtyard – Live Bands, Dancers and Fun! Admission is $25 per person.

For more information visit our website at www.filmfestival.jacksonville.com

The Tuskegee Airmen – Charleston, SC

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Have house guests over the Thanksgiving weekend? Bring the crew down to the Museum for a visit to From Slave to Sharecropper: African Americans in the Low country after the Civil War, then watch The Tuskegee Airmen. This movie picks up at the end of our exhibit period and tells the remarkable World War II story of the U. S. Army Air Corps Fighting 99, the first squadron of African American combat fighter pilots. Did you know the Tuskegee Airmen had a Low country connection? Over 500 Tuskegee Airmen received advanced combat training at Walterboro Army Air Field from 1944-1945 before they were sent into action in the European theater. RATED PG-13.

FREE for Charleston Museum members and FREE with admission ($10/adults, $5/children, under 3 free) Call (843) 722-2996 for more information!