By Margaret Evans, Editor

So, there’s a discussion thread on my Facebook page that, as of this moment, has been alive and kicking for seven days. The subject? Clint Eastwood’s controversial, Oscar-nominated film American Sniper. The pro-Sniper folks are hanging tough, while the anti-Sniper contingent is also holding its own. I bowed out of the conversation days ago, and frankly, I’m starting to wish the others would “take it outside.” But what’s a gracious hostess to do? I started it. I invited them in, so it seems impolite to kick them out. Still, seven days?

This documentary about sex, race and murder in the South is getting big BIFF buzz.

When three friends set out to find the truth behind a “true crime” tale set in 1950s Jim Crow Florida, they had no idea how difficult their task would prove . . . or how long it would take. Billed as a story of “Sex, Race and Murder in the South,” You Belong to Me is finally finished, and it’s getting big BIFF buzz.

“Go to your bosom; knock there, and ask what your heart doth know.” – William Shakespeare

I don’t know about y’all, but I love to read a great love story.  Real, imagined, immortalized, tragic, you name it, and I will immerse myself in one at any given time, especially if it involves a warm bath and a good pinot. 

The 9th Beaufort International Film Festival Raises the Bar. 

By Mark Shaffer

“We have filmmakers every year who tell us that they’re going to go home and make another movie just so they can come back to Beaufort. You can’t beat that.”

    - Ron Tucker, Executive Director, Beaufort International Film Festival