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A Conversation with Paul Sorvino

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BIFF 2019 Pat Conroy Lifetime Achievement Award

Interview by Mark Shaffer��

Henry Hill (narrating): Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn�t have to move for anybody.�� Goodfellas, 1990

When Director Martin Scorsese was looking to cast the role of�caporegime�Paul �Paulie� Cicero in Goodfellas, he knew he needed an actor who could embody a sense of lethal�gravitas. The man had to inspire fear and loyalty just by walking into a room. He found that actor in Paul Sorvino. In GQ�s 2010 oral history of the film, Sorvino recalls, �I had a sense of elevation the entire time I was making it. I've never had that before or since, making a movie. Felt I was three feet in the air.��

A Bigger, Better BIFF

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The Beaufort International Film Festival at 13

As this issue of Lowcountry Weekly hits the streets the Beaufort International Film Festival prepares to celebrate its 13^thyear. Appropriately enough, BIFF�s put on some serious growth as it enters its teens. This year festival runners Ron and Rebecca Tucker added an extra day to the event, significantly expanding the slate of films (and Ron�s chronic fear that no one will show up). This year more than 80 filmmakers are scheduled to attend. The festival gets under way Tuesday the 19^thwith a gala at Tabby Place in downtown Beaufort.

BIFF Behind the Scenes

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Charleston�s Joyce Gilliard Recognized for Career Achievement

Story by Mark Shaffer
Photos courtesy Joyce Gilliard

Even over the phone, Joyce Gilliard comes across as a force of nature.�She has to be with a resume like this: 30 years as a professional hairstylist, author, activist, educator, motivational speaker, founder of the SC Hair & Makeup Network and creator of the non-profit�iSAFE! TV & FiLM, LLC. And somewhere in there she�s managed to have a family (3 kids), work toward her doctorate in cosmetology and start another book.�She�s genuinely flabbergasted at being honored with the Behind the Scenes Award at this year�s Beaufort International Film Festival. �I�m still trying to wrap my head around it,� she says. �It�s crazy.�

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The 13^th�Beaufort International Film Festival Runs February 19-24

By Mark Shaffer

As I write this, the Sundance Film Festival has once again flooded the notoriously uptight state of Utah with a crazed mob of the film industry�s hippest, designer-clad, indie auteurs. Past, present and future. Each year the sleepy little ski village of Park City transforms into Cannes in the Wasatch Mountains. Although there are undoubtedly fewer scantily clad starlets preening for the paparazzi in the cold and the beer is 3.2%. For a dozen days and nights this is schmooze central for the movie biz, where the term �bidding war� is practically blowing in the wind.

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�Beaufort in Films,� a special exhibit at Beaufort History Museum presented in partnership with Ron and Rebecca Tucker of the Beaufort Film Society, is currently open to the public.
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BIFF 2019 Finalists and Special Awards

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Thirteen will be a lucky number when the thirteenth annual Beaufort International Film Festival hosts thousands of film lovers from around the world from February 19 - February 24. Considered one of the fastest growing film festivals in the southeast and a top 100 best reviewed film festival in the world according to FilmFreeway, BIFF should see its biggest crowds yet this year.
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