72° CLEAR, Fifteenth Cucalorus Film Festival opens today
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 11:53 p.m.
Dim the lights and cue the projector(s): The 15th Cucalorus Film Festival gets rolling today.
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The festival’s first event, a screening of the film “That Evening Sun,” starts at 7 p.m. in UNCW’s Lumina Theater. Through Sunday, it will be followed by 148 more features, documentaries and short films (26 of them locally produced), as well as workshops, a moderated “State of the State” discussion of the film industry in North Carolina, “Dance-a-lorus” (film mixed with dance), random weirdness and countless interesting conversations.
Dozens of filmmakers from all over the country with movies in Cucalorus have already begun to descend on the Port City, including Ti West, director of the well-reviewed suspense/horror film “House of the Devil.”
Highlights of this year’s festival, which will see screenings at six venues around town, include the Oprah-endorsed “Precious,” a film about a teenager trying to make something of herself despite suffering from horrific abuse.
StarNews staffers will be blogging from Cucalorus starting today, providing updates on festival buzz, posting pictures and passing along useful and interesting tidbits of information. Read posts at Compass.StarNewsOnline.com.
For complete festival coverage, check www.StarNewsOnline.com/Cucalorus. For the full festival schedule, go to the official festival Web site, www.Cucalorus.org.
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