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The filmmaker receives the inaugural Santini Patriot Spirit Award at the 2011 BIFF for the “portrayal of the American military, veterans, or their families in a feature film, documentary, or short [that] reflects the highest standards of service and sacrifice for the good of others.”
On paper, Mike Hudson and Gibbes McDowell are an odd pairing. McDowell is an expert guide and outdoorsman while Hudson spends a good bit of his time blowing things up as a Special Effects Coordinator for film and television, with a resume that includes both Forrest Gump and the current Army Wives. About six years ago, the two discovered a mutual interest in history and archaeology when McDowell told Hudson about evidence of ancient Native Americans he’d discovered at his fish camp near Hunting Island.
This year’s edition of the Beaufort International Film Festival kicks off February 16th with a gala opening at Beaufort’s historic and (very cinematic) Arsenal. Once again filmmakers from around the nation and the world will gather in the Lowcountry to celebrate their art, do a little schmoozing and make connections. Each entry, from student projects and animated shorts to documentaries and full-length features, marks an exclusive South Carolina premier. The festival’s also attracted a good bit of repeat business, according to Executive Director Ron Tucker.
Synopsis: Scottie Ballantyne, a rock and roll singer, inherits a run-down bar in the salt marshes of South Carolina. In order to make 'Kokonuts' a success, she and her brother must battle against raging motorcycle clubs, gun toting gang bangers, a devilish loan shark and a deadly neighbor hell bent on sabotaging their efforts.
When she’s not wearing her filmmaker’s hat, Maria Cuomo-Cole serves as the Executive Chairman of HELP USA, one of the nation’s leading non-profits for the homeless. She is the daughter of former New York governor Mario Cuomo and the wife of fashion designer Kenneth Cole. And she’s coming to Beaufort!
”It would be hard—very hard—to find better chamber music playing than at the cellist Edward Arron’s enterprising series.” This high praise appeared in a recent New Yorker magazine, and although the reference was to Mr. Arron’s chamber music series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it could just as easily be said of the USCB Festival Series that Mr. Arron brings to the Lowcountry five times each year.
For the past three years around Valentine’s Day, the Red Piano Too Art Gallery on St. Helena Island has hosted an art show with the theme of “Love” always in mind. This year the Red Piano Too will feature the art of St. Helena Island native Victoria Smalls, in its annual “Celebration of Love.” The collection will primarily showcase paintings in the artist’s favorite medium - soft pastels. The artist has combined her signature series of “Contemplation Faces” in varying hues and flesh tones and images of couples embracing, walking along the seaside, reflecting and celebrating their love for one another.
Living for 32 is the inspirational story of Colin Goddard, a survivor of the massacre at Virginia Tech that rocked the nation in April of 2007. Recent events have cast new attention on that terrible day, as Americans struggle to heal, once again, in the aftermath of last month’s tragic shootings in Tucson.
Synopsis: A cruise ship dancer who can't even figure out that sandbags don't work without sand is accused of molesting his teenage daughter. But when he's listed on the Internet Sex Offender Registry, Zack isn't the only one forced to wear the modern-day Scarlet Letter - his wife and children suffer just as much. On the eve of a hurricane, Zack protects his family first, then makes a suicidal run for freedom - finding redemption in anonymity.
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