FLORENCE-This is the 23rd Annual George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, a competitive, international festival highlighting the best of independent film. The festival begins at 10 AM on March 5 and concludes at 6:30 PM on March 7 at the The University of North Alabama 1 Harrison Plaza, Florence, AL 35630.
“Bringing Southern Hospitality to the Best in Independent Film! The George Lindsey UNA Film Festival is hosted each year by the University of North Alabama in Florence, one of the four cities comprising the culturally rich Shoals. The Shoals is an entertainment Mecca with long roots, which reach to the heart of rock and roll, southern rock, and the blues. It is the birthplace of “America’s First Lady of Courage” (Helen Keller), “The Father of the Blues” (W.C. Handy), and the legendary “Father of Rock and Roll” (Sam Phillips), who first recorded the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the list goes on.”
The festival will run from March 5 through the 7.
2020 SCREENING AND EVENT SCHEDULE
All screenings and events are free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 5
9:30am – Panel – “That’s a Rap: Hip Hop Performance, Persona, and Improvisation in the Acting Process” with Will Brittain, (George S. Lindsey Theater)
10 am Screenings (UNA Communications Building 124)
Byler Cheatham Roads: The Challenge 200 Years Ago (00:42:22)
Q&A
11am – Panel/Workshop – Young Actors –
11am Screenings (UNA Communications Building 131)
Life is Good (00:09:12)
15 Down (00:14:59)
Ella (00:15:00)
Q&A
11am Screenings (UNA Communications Building 124)
Fahrenheit 451: The Movie (00:36:33)
We are Human (00:21:03)
Q&A
12 pm Screening (UNA Communications Building 124)
Dark Necessities (00:13:53)
Mime (00:12:35)
The Dance (00:11:30)
The Deer (00:29:38)
Slave 2 (00:07:47)
Five Point Palm Exploding Heart (00:15:00)
Q&A
12pm Screening (UNA Communications Building 131)
The Strip: Tuscaloosa’s Most Colorful Quarter Mile (01:38:00)
2:00 Screenings A – (Florence Academy of Fine Arts films) (UNA Communications Building 131)
Missing (00:09:41)
A Companion of My Imagination (00:09:56)
Clueless (00:08:34)
Chad and Brody the Movie the Second (00:09:07)
Beezlebuddy (00:12:32)
(Florence Academy of Fine Arts 1 minutes films)
The Underdawg
Shut In
The Outlaw
The Pencil
You CAN Do it
If Sitcoms Were Real Life
Streaks
Q&A
3:00 Screenings (UNA Communications Building 131)
Contaminated and Forgotten (00:13:38)
Some Million Miles (00:12:25)
Sweet Sorghum (00:08:58)
Rebembering Elwood Higginbottom (00:06:52)
Q&A
4:00 pm Screenings (UNA Communications Building 131)
The Song You’ll Never Hear (00:43:01)
Q&A
Old Chums (00:01:56)
The Odyssey of Cleve Eaton (00:03:45)
Everything’s Fine, I’m Fine (00:04:19)
Q&A
Kick-Off Party – 6pm – 8pm, Drummond Gallery, McKinney Center, 205 S. Seminary Street
8:00pm Screening (The Mane Room, 310 N. Pine Street)
Karuna (00:13:39)
Think Tank (00:13:38)
Q&A
9:00pm Screening (The Mane Room, 310 N. Pine Street)
Dark Harbor (01:31:00)
Q&A
Friday, March 6 (ALL Friday screenings are at The Mane Room, 310 N. Pine Street)
10:00am – Panel – The Filmmaker Interview REDUX with Christopher Jason Bell and Theodore Collatos
Moderator: Michael Curtis Johnson
11:00am Screenings
Alice is Still Dead (01:36:30)
Q&A
1:00pm Screenings – UNA SPOTLIGHT
The Pursuit (00:01:30)
Hey…we need to talk (00:19:00)
The Girl in Question (00:00:21)
It Lives in Color (00:13:05)
The Artist’s Dilemma (00:08:16)
Fortune and Glory (00:07:27)
Diverged in a Bleak Wood (00:11:02)
Q&A
2:30pm Screenings
The Finger (00:08:38)
Every Grain of Rice (00:06:19)
Ready to Work (00:15:30)
You Can Go Now (00:14:26)
Q&A
4:00pm Screenings
Akinyi and Yvonne (00:08:15)
Fear in Sanity (00:12:42)
Creature Companion (00:30:00)
Q&A
5:00pm Screenings A
Black Dispatch (00:19:01)
Cherry (00:12:00)
You Didn’t Forget (00:13:40)
Q&A
6:00pm Screenings
Thunderbolt in Thine Eye (01:20:42)
Q&A
8:00 pm Screenings
Queen of Lapa (01:13:00)
Q&A
Saturday, March 7
10:00 am – Panel – When Women Make Movies, with Elizabeth Chatelain, Bianca Malcolm, and Mary Beth Stanfield
Moderator:
10:00 am Tour of UNA’s Collier Library Archives, including George Lindsey’s scripts and memorabilia, Ernest Borgnine’s script collection, and a number of other collections from film and stage writers and actors.
11:00 am Screening – (UNA Communications Building 131)
Colors Run (00:16:41)
Everywhere You Look: The Ballad of DJ Tanner (00:09:03)
Double Vida (00:02:00)
Q&A
11:45pm Screening (UNA Communications Building 131)
Pie in the Puss (00:09:27)
The Film Roll (00:01:00)
Pathways (00:11:53)
30 Days Notice (00:10:25)
Q&A
12:45pm Screening (UNA Communications Building 131)
Sanzaru (01:33:43)
Q&A
2:30 Screening (UNA Communications Building 131)
The Mayberry Effect (01:30:00)
Q&A
4:15 Screening (UNA Communications Building 124)
Man on Fire (00:54:00)
6:30 – 23rd Annual George Lindsey UNA Film Festival Awards Show – The Mane Room
