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| March 12, 2015 |
Time:
All Day Event
Location: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art invites contemporary filmmakers to meet with students and museum guests for special screenings of their films. This semester, filmmakers explore race and culture
against the backdrop of a new civil rights movement, a college campus, and a prison.
The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment
for the Arts.
Films begin at 5 p.m. with live jazz and café service to follow until 8 p.m.
MARCH 12: DANIELLE BEVERLY, DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/CAMERA SOUND
Old South
Documentary | 70 min.
When the Kappa Alpha (KA), an elite, white fraternity at the University of Georgia, buys and demolishes houses on one block in a historic African-American neighborhood, the black community becomes
agitated. For the black community, the KA organization symbolizes the old South—an annual antebellum parade, the flying of the Confederate flag, and loud parties with beer bottles littering the neighborhood. In many Southern towns, centuries of racism have
created a thorny co-existence between blacks and whites, poor and wealthy. Can change truly happen? Or do we simply keep our biases behind closed doors? Old South will open dialogue, revealing that there are often no easy solutions.
About the filmmaker
Danielle Beverly makes documentaries, often filming and recording sound as a solo filmmaker in the field. In 2014 she was awarded a Bay Area Video Coalition National Media Maker Fellowship for
Old South. Beverly was Field Producer for Rebirth over its ten-year production. Her first feature, Learning to Swallow, premiered at Silverdocs and toured with Southern Circuit in 2005. Beverly has received a Nohl Artists Fellowship, a Flaherty Seminar Fellowship
and has received grants from the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media, the Lucius & Eva Eastman Fund, New York State Council on the Arts and the Puffin Foundation. She also teaches documentary filmmaking (most recently at Marquette University and The University
of Notre Dame) and works as a documentary cameraperson.
For more information, visit the museum's website.
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