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Filmmaker�Chris White�talks storytelling, music, memory, and the�second coming of�Electric Jesus�to the Beaufort International Film Festival.

�By Margaret Evans, Editor

For Greenville filmmaker Chris White, appearing at the Beaufort International Film Festival � whether as an actor, screenwriter, director, or producer � has become something of an annual tradition.

�Except for that one year I was snubbed,� he cracks.

��We shall never speak of it,� I whisper.

Stars Align for 'Bama in Beaufort

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BIFF stars fell

Apart from a readily available and highly effective vaccine what the world in lockdown craves most right now is distraction. We wish to be removed from reality and transported to a place without care in a way not experienced since the Great Depression. As it turns out, the perfect prescription for pandemic escapism was filled right here in Beaufort and is currently being administered at will, often in multiple doses, via your preferred method of Video on Demand.�

Requiem for a (Movie) Heavyweight

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Danny Aiello�s final film premieres at BIFF

�Michael Corleone says hello.��

The scene is from Francis Ford Coppola�s classic The Godfather: Part II. Corleone family enforcer, Tony Rosato casually drops the line as he attempts to assassinate Frank Pantangeli in one of the film�s most harrowing and pivotal moments. It was Danny Aiello�s only line in the film. In hindsight it served as his �hello� as one of the great character actors of his time.

Against All Odds

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The 15^thAnnual Beaufort International Film Festival Goes Live

BIFFlogo By Mark Shaffer, Editor at Large

Around this time last year as the Beaufort International Film Festival was coming to the end of another record-breaking run, the term �COVID 19� was rapidly becoming part of the worldwide public lexicon. Ron and Rebecca Tucker � like most people � thought that whatever this thing was, it would certainly run its course by summer�s end. And then like the hackneyed plot of a Sci-Fi �B� movie, the world went into lockdown. The virus spread, and . . . well, we all know the rest. The Tuckers, who run the festival via the Beaufort Film Society, have parlayed BIFF into a destination event during a traditionally slow time for business in Beaufort. If at all possible, the Tuckers felt the show must go on.�

Sonic Truth

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Oscar Winning Sound Editor/Designer Eugene Gearty to Receive Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award at BIFF �

Story & Photos by Mark Shaffer, Editor at Large

There is a moment in Martin Scorsese�s period epic�Gangs of New York�where Daniel Day Lewis� Bill �The Butcher� Cutting is confronted by Jim Broadbent�s Boss Tweed for his very public murder of the local sheriff. The lord of the Five Points may be a homicidal maniac, but he is a man of principle who long ago cut out his own eye to prove his self-worth. He�s slicing up a steak with a very sharp knife, seething in rage. The tension is palpable as Tweed declares, �You don't know what you've done to yourself!� Bill glares up at him then slowly taps his glass eye with the point of his blade.�Tink, tink, tink, tink, tink...

BIFF 2020: Meet The Filmmakers

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By Mark Shaffer, Editor at Large

With each iteration, the Beaufort International Film Festival continues to grow and evolve as word spreads and buzz builds around the festival circuit. Once again we reached out to a cross section of attending filmmakers and asked them to participate in a short Q&A to get a sense of what to expect.

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