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UNCSA dominates BIFF Student Film Category

By Mark Shaffer

This year�s Beaufort International Film Festival comes with what Vegas odds makers would call a mortal lock: the Student Film trophy will go back to Winston-Salem. All eight finalists hail from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Film

The 8th Annual Beaufort International Film Festival Returns February 12-15

BIFF-RonRebecca By Mark Shaffer

For most of a decade now Ron and Rebecca Tucker have done something a lot of people around here would consider nuts. Each February, in the absolute dead of winter, in the lowest slump of the off-season in the Lowcountry, they put on a film festival. Crazier still, they expect people to show up for it, buy tickets, book hotel rooms and spend their money in the local shops, restaurants and bars. And here's the really crazy part: it's worked. Hell, it's boomed.

Renee Fleming in 'Rusalka'

Theater/Dance
Soprano Renee Fleming returns to Metropolitan Opera in the role that has become one of her signatures in the last 15 years, that of the title character in the Met's revival of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's Rusalka when USCB Center for the Arts presents The Met:Live in HD on Saturday, Feb. 8.
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Schumann's Piano Quartet to Anchor Concert

Music
USCB's Festival Series continues on Sunday, February 9, at 5:00pm at the Center for the Arts. Artistic Director Edward Arron has planned a rich, varied program of some of the finest chamber music featuring works by Mozart, Brahms, Turina, and Schumann and is bringing in extraordinary artists for the performance.
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Everyday Moments

Art
The Society of Bluffton Artists presents "Everyday Moments," a collection of original pastel and oil paintings by local artist Shirley Good Bacher, on display from February 3 through March 1.
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Remembering 'Forrest Gump'

Film

On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, locals look back at the Oscar-sweeping cinematic sensation whose Lowcountry roots run deep.

By Margaret Evans, Editor

Who'd have imagined moving from metropolitan Atlanta to an obscure barrier island off the South Carolina coast could drastically broaden a girl's horizons?

� It was the summer of 1993. I had lived on Fripp Island only a short time, but already my life had taken a decided turn for the glamorous. I'd met my literary hero Pat Conroy, who turned out to be a neighbor . . . and now, a movie was being filmed right down the street from my house!