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W elcome, film lovers!

The 17th Annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest welcomes you to another heaping helping of

film art and artists. This year, the festival will once again pay homage to filmmakers

whose works tackle the rewards and challenges of life in rural America. Given the current

focus in the film industry on heightened representation of often marginalized people, it

seems like an especially fitting time to showcase works that authentically portray the

people, places, and practices that define small town life. We’re excited to engage in this

effort to broaden understanding of and appreciation for the non-urban lifestyle.

We’re also especially excited about the FilmFest kick-off event at Batesville’s historic

Melba Theater. On Thursday, April 19, we will present the 1925 silent film THE LOST

WORLD, the first feature length film to combine stop motion animation and live actors and

the first dinosaur-oriented film sensation. The movie will be presented with live music

accompaniment by the Lyon College Jazz Band performing an original score composed

for this screening!

OZARK FOOTHILLS FILMFEST, INC.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Debbie Harrison, President

Melissa Bernard, Vice-President

Cathy Drew, Secretary/Treasurer

Dustyn Bork

Hannah Keller Flanery

Chuck Jones

Sarah Jones

Kim Lindsey

Judy Pest, Co-Founder

Ben Stroud

Keith Sturch

EMERITUS

Jane Parker

Bob Pest, Co-Founder

Nancy Thomas

© 2018 Ozark Foothills FilmFest, Inc.

195 Peel Road, Locust Grove, AR 72550

(870) 251-1189

[email protected]

Graphic Design: Judy Pest

Cover Art: Mandy Maxwell

TICKETS

Admission for individual screenings ~

$5 Adults / $4 Adults Age 55+ and Students /

$3 Film Society Members

“Red Eye” All Movie Pass ~

$30 Adults / $25 Adults Age 55+ and Students /

$20 Film Society Members

THE LOST WORLD—Music Accompaniment

by the Lyon College Jazz Band!

$7 Adults / $6 Adults Age 55+ and Students /

$5 Film Society Members

VENUES

University of Arkansas Community College-

Batesville

Independence Hall

2005 White Drive

Melba Theater

115 West Main Street

Josie’s Steakhouse

50 Riverbank Road

A Foothills Film Society Membership

puts you FRONT AND CENTER at one of

a small number of film festivals that take

place in a truly rural community!

BASIC MEMBERSHIP ($25) BENEFITS:

—Discount on FilmFest screenings

—Complimentary Official FilmFest Poster

—Discount on Official FilmFest T-Shirt

—Admission to the Wrap Party Reception

—Knowing you made a difference in the

cultural vitality of rural America!

Membership forms are available at the

box office.

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All screenings take place in Independence Hall on the campus of the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville (UACCB). Other

locations are noted. Venue addresses can be found on Page 1. Three ticket prices are listed for each screening or event: Regular Adult / Adults Age 55+

and Students / Foothills Film Society members. Films are listed in the order in which they will screen.

Thurs, Apr 19, 7:00 PM Melba Theater $7 / $6 / $5

THE LOST WORLD (93 min)

Live Music Accompaniment by The Lyon College Jazz Band

Fri, Apr 20, 7:00 PM $5 $4 / $3

RIVER TO THE HEART (104 min)

Preceded by: FROM BOHEMIA’S WOODS AND FIELDS (28 min)

Eddy L. Harris Attending

Sat, Apr 21, 11:00 AM F R E E

PIECED TOGETHER (53 min)

Sat, Apr 21, 12:15 PM $5 / $4 / $3

Arkansas Shorts

INTO THE GREEN (14 min) VILOMAH (15 min) THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT (16 min) POLICY (5 min) THE UNDERSTUDY (26 min) ROADSIDE ATTORNEY (8 min)

Barry Cobbs, Donavon Thompson, Mary McDade Casteel Attending

Sat, Apr 21, 2:15 PM $5 / $4 / $3

Documentary Shorts

ALMOST CURED (30 min) WITH ALL MY HEART (20 min) BLACK SHEEP 21 min) SCOUTING FOR LIGHT (18 min)

Sat, Apr 21, 4:00 PM $5 / $4 / $3

DOWN AND YONDER (86 min)

Preceded by: NORTH AND NOWHERE (12 min)

Sat, Apr 21, 7:30 PM $5 / $4 / $3

Narrative Shorts 1

GORILLA (14 min) NIGHT CALL (18 min) FAVORITES (18 min) THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER (12 min) ONCE UPON A DREAM (14 min) HE COULD’VE GONE PRO (13 min) BIG AND TALL (15 min) LOOK AT ME (14 min)

Clint Till Attending

Fri, Apr 27, 6:30 PM $5 / $4 / $3

International Animation

TRUMPET MAN (14 min, China) 149TH & GRAND CONCOURSE (4 min, US) SOG (11 min, Germany) ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE (2 min,) PATRIOSKA (10 min, Portugal) COMPARTMENTS (15 min, Germany) OUR WONDERFUL NATURE—THE COMMON CHAMELEON (4 min, Germany) EDGE OF ALCHEMY (19 min, US) NIGGUN (13 min, Israel)

Fri, Apr 27, 8:30 PM $5 / $4 / $3

Narrative Shorts 2

FALLING SOUTH (39 min) GLORIA TALKS FUNNY (18 min) STRAYED (21 min) DISTRESS (18 min) PICKLE (22 min) SO IT GOES (13 min)

Sat, Apr 28, 10:30 AM F R E E

Filmmaker Panel: “Reel Rural: Rural America in Independent Film”

Panelists: Cheryl Nichols (CORTEZ) Arturo Perez Torres (THE DRAWER BOY) Jamie Sisley (FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL and STAY AWAKE) Nick Citton (MY GOOD MAN’S GONE)

Moderator: Zack Godshall

Sat, Apr 28, NOON $5 / $4 / $3

FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL (70 min)

Preceded by: STAY AWAKE (13 min)

Jamie Sisley Attending

Sat, Apr 28, 2:00 PM $5 / $4 / $3

THE DRAWER BOY (98 min))

Arturo Perez Torres Attending

Sat, Apr 28, 4:15 PM $5 / $4 / $3

MY GOOD MAN’S GONE (95 min)

Preceded by: HOME (13 min)

Nick Citton Attending

Sat, Apr 28, 7:45 PM $5 / $4 / $3

CORTEZ (99 min)

Cheryl Nichols and Arron Shiver Attending

Sat, Apr 28, 9:45 PM F R E E

2018 Ozark Foothills FilmFest Awards Presentation

Sat, Apr 22, 10:15 PM Josie’s Steakhouse $10 Film Society Members: FREE

Wrap Party Reception

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THE LOST WORLD

Thursday, April 19, 7:00 PM The Melba Theater

THE LOST WORLD with Music Accompani- ment by The Lyon College Jazz Band

RIVER TO THE HEART

RIVER TO THE HEART preceded by FROM BOHEMIA’S WOODS AND FIELDS

Friday, April 20, 7:00 PM UACCB

INTO THE GREEN

Saturday, April 21, 12:15 PM UACCB

Arkansas Shorts

FROM BOHEMIA’S WOODS AND FIELDS

Director: Ian Woodward | 2012 | 28 min

Uncovers the amazing story of Czech composer

Bedrich Smetana who wrote some of his most

beautiful music following deafness.

RIVER TO THE HEART

Director: Eddy L. Harris | 2017 | 104 min

Eddy L. Harris is the author of the lauded travel

book Mississippi Solo, which chronicled his

canoe trip down the length of the Mississippi

River, from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. In

RIVER TO THE HEART, Harris retraces that

journey as a 60-year-old, and the film explores

what he discovered about both the country that

was and the country that is. As he paddles the

long miles, Harris contemplates the meaning of

the river to the country and to the people who

populate it.

Eddy L. Harris Attending

Director: Harry O. Hoyt from the novella by Sir

Arthur Conan Doyle | Cast: Wallace Beery,

Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, | 1925 | 72 min

THE LOST WORLD is believed to be the first

feature length film to combine stop motion

animation and live actors to tell a story. It was

also the first dinosaur-oriented film sensation,

setting the stage for all the dinosaur movies to

follow, from King Kong to the Jurassic Park

trilogy.

The film follows Professor Challenger who

believes that prehistoric creatures are alive and

flourishing in the Amazon jungle. He declares his

intention to mount an expedition to prove his

point. Journalist Edward Malone volunteers to go

and convinces his newspaper to fund the

journey. Paula White hopes to find her father, a

missing explorer. They and others undertake the

voyage and witness dinosaurs and humanoids

doing battle in a magnificent landscape.

A worldwide sensation when it opened in 1925,

the film incorporated both the best available

paleontological information of the time and the

special effects wizardry of Willis O’Brien. The

film has been painstakingly restored from eight

original source prints digitally mastered to video.

The film will be presented with live music

accompaniment by the Lyon College Jazz

Band from an original score composed for

this screening. Performers: Montgomery Hill,

Taylor Hartwig, Charlie Fancyboy, Emily

Oldman, Briana Sanchez, Rebecca Farhat.

INTO THE GREEN

Director: Mary McDade Casteel | 2017 | 14 min

Eleanor, a high school principal in rural

Arkansas, is a queen in her kingdom of concrete

walls and vinyl floors. When a teacher goes

missing, she must decide how to carry on in the

absence of someone she loves.

VILOMAH

Director: Kameron Lunon | 2017 | 15 min

Roy struggles to accept his daughter’s death,

until her ghost comes back to warn that he might

be next.

THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT

Director: Johnnie Brannon | 2017 | 11 min

POLICY

Director: Donavon Thompson | 2017 | 5 min

A young boy buys a ticket to a movie theater and

gets the show of a lifetime.

THE UNDERSTUDY

Director: Caleb Silvey | 2017 | 26 min

A college theater student struggles to regain his

passion after repeated rejection and failure.

ROADSIDE ATTORNEY

Director: Barry Cobbs | 2017 | 8 min

Whether it’s divorce, personal injury, criminal

law, or parental emancipation, roadside attorney

James F.A. McGaugh, Esq. will win your case.

Barry Cobbs, Donavon Thompson, Mary

McDade Casteel Attending

PIECED TOGETHER

Saturday, April 2, 11:00 AM UACCB—F R E E

Director: Julianne Donofrio | 2016 | 53 min

A documentary on the quilt square trail

movement and a story of love between a mother

and daughter, survival, and pride in one’s

community. The film relates how quilt square

trails changed the American landscape and

saved one woman’s life after job loss and breast

cancer.

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ALMOST CURED

Saturday, April 21, 2:15 PM UACCB

Documentary Shorts DOWN AND YONDER preceded by NORTH AND NOWHERE

DOWN AND YONDER

Saturday, April 21, 4:00 PM UACCB

THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER

Saturday, April 21, 7:30 PM UACCB

Narrative Shorts 1

NORTH AND NOWHERE

Director: Scott Ballard | Cast: Erin McGarry,

Steve Ballard, Brian Koch, Kate Hanson, Sharae

Foxie, Jeffrey Arrington | 2012 | 12 min

A girl, a gun, and a last chance.

DOWN AND YONDER

Director: Christopher Flippo | Cast: Chris Schulz,

Geoff James, Emily Landham | 2017 | 86 min

The story of two friends having a belated coming

-of-age in their mid-twenties. When one of them

becomes convinced to move away, they both

begin to examine their futures. The film is about

a friendship that becomes tested by time and

distance, and it is ultimately a love letter to

growing up in a small Southern town.

“If David Gordon Greene and John Hughes

collaborated...it’s funny, it’s beautiful, it’s real.”

— Film Dispenser

ALMOST CURED

Director: Tom Dierolf | 2017 | 30 min

A personalized account about racial integration

on the high school football team of a small North

Carolina community during the thick of the Civil

Rights Movement in 1963.

WITH ALL MY HEART

Director: Mai Le | 2017 | 20 min

A young figure skater in Springdale, Arkansas

overcomes adversity as she is challenged with

an open-heart surgery.

BLACK SHEEP

Directors: Rachel Lattin, Tori Edgar, Emily Biehl,

Tom Schyuler | 2017 | 21 min

After the loss of his wife, Jerry Clark found

himself in a downward spiral. Now he has to

battle physical, emotional, and spiritual trials that

come from over a decade of homelessness.

SCOUTING FOR LIGHT

Director: Morand Coline | 2017 | 18 min | French

with English subtitles

Joel Dogue, a 60 year old member of

Electricians Without Borders, goes alone for the

first time on an emergency mission in Haiti. In

this portrait, viewers overcome the obstacles

with him and discover the solutions designed by

this handy-man who gives light to those who are

just emerging from darkness.

GORILLA

Director: Tibo Pinsard | Cast: Stephane Coulon,

Flore Bonaventura | 2016 | 14 min

In 1952 Hollywood, Henry Corso, a costumed

gorilla in horror movies, must terrorize the

leading actress lost in a fake jungle.

NIGHT CALL

Director: Amanda Renee Knox | Cast: Marlyne

Barrett, Rachael Holmes, Delaney Williams,

Matthieu Jean-Pierre | 2017 | 18 min

When a black female cop living and patrolling in

Inglewood gets called to a disturbance on a

routine patrol, she is forced to make an

unprecedented life altering decision.

FAVORITES

Director: Tracy Facelli | Cast: Jeff Boyet, Nettie

Kraft, Brandon Person, Chrisla Key, Georgetta

Buggs | 2017 | 18 min

Steve and Natalie are pretty happy together,

until it all comes crashing down when Natalie

dies suddenly and unexpectedly. After the

funeral, Steve is having some trouble processing

until he finds that the last thing Natalie did before

she died was to make his favorite dessert.

THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER

Director: Jackson Smith | Cast: Lilith Max,

Connie Smith, James Giusti | 2017 | 12 min

In Germany in 1945, the war has left a slew of

devastated families in its wake. Little Maria

makes an unlikely friend—an American soldier

who teaches Maria and her family a powerful

lesson about compassion.

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BIG AND TALL

Saturday, April 21, 7:30 PM UACCB

Narrative Shorts 1 (continued) International Animation

SOG

Friday, April 27, 6:30 PM UACCB

COMPARTMENTS

Friday, April 27, 6:30 PM UACCB

TRUMPET MAN

Director: Emily Wong | 2016 | 14 min | China

Seeds of passion breed conflict among five men,

eventually leading one to a deeper

understanding of life.

149TH AND GRAND CONCOURSE

Directors: Andy and Carolyn London | 2016 | 4

min | U.S.

Captures the diverse voices of the South Bronx

against a backdrop of rapidly changing streets.

SOG

Director: Jonatan Schwenk | 2017 | 11 min |

Germany

After a flood, some fish got stuck in old trees. In

danger of drying-out they scream sharply.

Woken by the noise, nearby cave dwellers don’t

appreciate the unintended gathering.

ALL THE WORLD IS A STAGE

Director: Hannes Rall | 2016 | 2 min | Singapore

An animated adaptation of the Shakespeare

passage “all the world’s a stage,” narrated by the

renowned actor and director Samuel West of the

Royal Shakespeare Company.

PATRIOSKA

Director: Tiago Araujo | 2016 | 10 min | Portugal

Five deities of power gather in an underground

secret society to discuss major themes about

world domination.

(continued next column)

ONCE UPON A DREAM

Director: Anthony Nion | Cast: Sarah Brunel,

Thomas Jeand’heur | 2016 | 14 min | French with

English subtitles

When Valentin meets Ludivine, he is convinced

she’s the girl he has been dreaming of for

weeks...Literally, the girl of his dreams! Only

Ludivine has a feeling this boy meets girl

scenario will take a nightmarish turn.

HE COULD’VE GONE PRO

Director: McGhee Monteith | Cast: Cecilia

Wingate, McGhee Monteith, Stephen Garrett |

2016 | 13 min

Debbie returns home for an obligatory Christmas

dinner with her steel magnolia mother, but

simmering resentment explodes to expose a long

-held family secret, leaving the holiday—and the

family—shattered.

BIG AND TALL

Director: Clint Till | Cast: Emi Otsuki, Devin

McCracklin, Ryan Mesler, Joy Murphy, Damian

Stuchko | 2017 | 15 min

A young girl and her best friend set off into the

woods to find proof of a mythological creature.

LOOK AT ME

Director: Andres Gil | Cast: Greg Lucey, Peggy

Glenn, Michael Berckart | 2016 | 14 min

Everett, a lonely man who is aware of being in

the last years of his life finds the ultimate social

experience when he comes upon a newspaper

ad to pose as a nude model in a college art class.

Clint Till Attending

International Animation (continued)

COMPARTMENTS

Directors: Daniella Koffler, Uli Seis | 2017 | 15

min | Germany

Netta, a young Israeli woman wishes to

immigrate to Berlin, Her father, the son of

Holocaust survivors, is horrified by her decision

to live in the land that killed her ancestors. The

first German-Israeli animated co-production

exploring collective memories of the Holocaust.

OUR WONDERFUL NATURE—THE COMMON

CHAMELEON

Director: Tomer Eshed | 2016 | 4 min | Germany

The feeding habits of the common chameleon as

never seen before.

EDGE OF ALCHEMY

Director: Stacey Steers | 2017 | 19 min | U.S.

Silent-era actors Mary Pickford and Janet

Gaynor are seamlessly appropriated from their

early films and cast into a surreal epic with an

upending of the Frankenstein story and an under

current of hive collapse. Comprised of over

6,000 handmade collages.

NIGGUN

Director: Yoni Salmon | 2017 | 13 min | Israel

After a long journey through space the last two

believers are about to reach their destination.

The space archaeologist hopes to prove that

Earth is not a myth. The outcast rabbi is

searching for something subtler. He believes that

Jerusalem is not just a mystical idea, but an

actual place where he might find the feeling of

holiness missing in his life.

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STRAYED

Friday, April 27, 8:30 PM UACCB

“Reel Rural” Short: STAY AWAKE

Saturday, April 28, 10:30 AM UACCB—F R E E

FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL

Saturday, April 28, NOON UACCB

FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL preceded by STAY AWAKE

STAY AWAKE

Director: Jamie Sisley | Cast: Owen Campbell,

David Rysdahl, Rebecca Harris, Lori Brown-

Niang | 2015 | 13 min

Follows two teenage brothers through the

weekly routine of taking their mother to the

hospital to detox her from a prescription drug

addiction. When it becomes clear that their

mother may never change, they have to decide

whether to continue trying to help her, or move

on.

FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL

Directors: Jamie Sisley, Miguel Martinez | 2017 |

English and Spanish with English subtitles

The carnival is an enduring staple of the

American experience. However, the need for

reliable labor has prompted carnivals along with

numerous other industries to look for workers

abroad. Today, most carnival workers are

Mexican citizens who travel north legally for the

carnival season. Shot over the course of six

years, FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL explores

how the carnival industry fights to keep itself

alive by employing Mexican migrant workers

through the controversial H-2B guestworker visa.

Jamie Sisley Attending

Filmmaker Panel: “Reel Rural: Rural America in Independent Film”

A program showcasing the work of four

filmmakers whose films provide authentic

portrayals of life in rural America (and Canada).

The program begins with a filmmaker panel

discussion focusing on how independent films are

uniquely positioned, through the circumstances of

their production, to depict regional mores and

points of view, and the challenges in getting such

films to audiences in the regions they seek to

represent.

The filmmakers will discuss their films and their

experiences; screenings will follow throughout the

day at UACCB.

The panel will be moderated by Zack Godshall,

Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University.

PANELISTS:

Nick Citton, MY GOOD MAN’S GONE

Cheryl Nichols, CORTEZ

Arturo Perez Torres, THE DRAWER BOY

Jamie Sisley, FAREWELL FERRIS WHEEL and STAY AWAKE

Narrative Shorts 2

FALLING SOUTH

Directors: Lorraine Portman | 2017 | 15 min

Charlotte puts Rochester in the rear view as she

runs away from the life she has known.

GLORIA TALKS FUNNY

Director: Kendall Goldberg | 2017 | 18 min

When a struggling voice actress discovers her

agent failed to tell her her cartoon is being

remade, she reprises her role as the famous

BioBoy.

STRAYED

Director: Heather Edwards | 2017 | 21 min

A dark comedy set in the colorful 1980s where a

young girl faces life or death decisions involving

a stray cat and a narcissistic mother.

DISTRESS

Director: Lane Lyle | 2017 | 18 min

An impoverished orphan must overcome

starvation, troll roads, immigration reform, and

misogynist knights to save the Prince.

PICKLE

Director: Grant Moore | 2017 | 22 min

After accidentally freezing the family dog to

death, Oscar attempts to make good with his

soon-to-be stepson by driving the pet’s ashes

across the country.

SO IT GOES

Director: Andy Bosnak | 2017 | 13 min

Something isn’t right at the Dallin farm where

sickly teenage Oren has been in foster care for

four years.

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THE DRAWER BOY

Saturday, April 28, 2:00 PM UACCB

THE DRAWER BOY MY GOOD MAN’S GONE

MY GOOD MAN’S GONE

Saturday, April 28, 4:15 PM UACCB

CORTEZ

Saturday, April 28, 7:45 PM UACCB

CORTEZ

Director: Nick Citton | Cast: Cheryl Nichols,

Robert Baker, Deanna Mustard, Miles Glanville,

Leslie Murphy, Lulu Brud | 2015 | 95 min

Joni and Wes have spent years looking over the

events that defined them as kids. But when

tragedy brings them to a rural town on its last

legs, they begin to understand the strength,

sacrifice and sweet, sweet freedom of a clean

slate. A comedy-drama about bucking tradition

and re-framing the stories of your life.

“The film is written and directed by Nick Citton,

his first turn in the director’s chair on a feature

film, and it’s a strong debut. He’s got a fine eye

for the Arkansas backdrops and a nuanced hand

with getting naturalistic performances out of his

cast. More so when you consider many of the

minor characters are played by non-actors.”

—Christopher Lloyd, The Film Yap

Nick Citton and Cheryl Nichols Attending

Director’s Statement:

My first experience with the town of Story came

as a research trip. I had decided I wanted to

make a contained, character-driven film that

tested the waters of working with non-actors. I

was hell-bent on taking myself out of my

geographic comfort zone of Los Angeles/

Vancouver/New York. And I wanted something

with a rich sense of place that would be warm to

the idea of a small crew coming into town and

setting up shop...I wasn’t entirely sure what I

would find in Arkansas, but I knew I was hungry

for something quiet. A location with enough aged

character that one needn’t force it onscreen.

Director: Arturo Perez Torres | Cast: Stuart

Hughes, Richard Clarkin, Jakob Ehman, Courtney

Ch’ng Lancaster, Sochi Fried, Heidi Lynch, Claire

Burns, Brendan McMurtry-Howlett | 2017 | 98 min

Miles, a young theater actor from Toronto, arrives

in Huron County at the home of Angus and

Morgan, two aging bachelor farmers. Miles stays

with the two farmers in order to gather stories

about rural life and make a play about it. All three

of their lives are irrevocably altered when art

attempts to imitate life and the line between truth

and fiction is crossed. Although the clash between

rural shrewdness and urban naivete initially

makes this film a comedy, the story ultimately

evolves into a compelling drama of loyal

friendship, lost love and abiding devotion.

“From the opening shots of a hippieish troupe of

actors cruising along the roads of Huron County

in a roadworn Grand Prix, Arturo Perez Torres’

THE DRAWER BOY is not what you expect it to

be, but it morphs into everything you want a film

to be. Meticulous in its construction, surprising in

its development, dramatic in its content, and

revelatory in its outcomes, the film evolves into a

probing portrait of two aging friends and the story

that binds them. Stuart Hughes and Richard

Clarkin are riveting in their portrayals of two men

trapped in their self-imposed isolation from

reality.” —Herbert Paine, broadwayworld.com

Arturo Perez Torres Attending

Director: Cheryl Nichols | Cast: Arron Shiver,

Cheryl Nichols, Drago Sumonja, Judith Ivey,

Jackson Shiver, Cassidy Freeman | 2016 | 99 min

After a canceled tour, flailing musician Jesse

Lirette seeks out an old flame in a small town in

northern New Mexico. When an arrogant attempt

at inserting himself into her family fails, he must

confront the mistakes of his past on his own.

“It’s not easy to find cinema that transports the

viewer to a place filled with people who

genuinely seem to have existed before the film

begins and long after it rolls credits.” —Teresa

Nieman, Screen Anarchy

Cheryl Nichols, Arron Shiver Attending

Wrap Party Reception

Meet the filmmakers! Enjoy stimulating

conversation, great ambience, and a fine repast

on the beautiful White River.

Saturday, April 28, 10:15 PM Josie’s Steakhouse

Saturday, April 28, 9:45 PM UACCB—F R E E

2018 Ozark Foothills FilmFest Winners Announced

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OZARK FOOTHILLS FILMFEST

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Page 16: elcome, film lovers! - ozarkfoothillsfilmfest.orgozarkfoothillsfilmfest.org/2018 Print Program.pdf · This year, the festival will once again pay homage to filmmakers whose works