WILMINGTON, N.C., Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The wildly
reimagined Cucalorus Film Festival is proud to announce its first
round of cinematic selections that range from insane and confusing
to uplifting and hilarious. The festival comes to you this year
through a series of Drive-in experiences at the Curbside Cinema at
UNCW combined with a hefty schedule of online screenings and
late-night performances. Passes go on sale today and include an
all-access online pass for only $50.
Click here to get a pass today!
Headlining the bold group of early selections is Mo Scarpelli's mesmerizing documentary "El
Father Plays Himself." Scarpelli skillfully upends traditional doc
format as she follows a young filmmaker making a feature about his
boozy father's tumultuous life in the Venezualan Amazon. As the
title suggests, the filmmaker casts his father to play his
father.
SXSW selection "Best Summer Ever" is a delightfully original
take on a teen musical with eight original songs and a fully
integrated cast and crew with and without disabilities, including
Wilmington's own Jeremy Vest as the high school mascot. Local
filmmakers Hannah Black and
Megan Petersen come back home after
an impressive festival run, despite the pandemic, with their loving
family drama "Drought," about an autistic teen who steals the
family ice-cream truck with his sisters to chase the storm of the
year.
Following up on the festival's equity commitments, out of the 35
early selections 23 of the films are directed by people of
color and there are 19 female directors, 14 male directors, 2
non-binary, 2 two-spirit, 1 trans-woman, and 1 trans-man. Standout
shorts include Stephanie Diane
Ford's magical film "Black Baptism" and Danielle Deadwyler's hauntingly emotional dance
film "CHOR(E)S."
Additional films will be announced next week along with the full
schedule of Drive-ins and virtual events including live
performances, community conversations, and get-togethers.
Early Selections for Cucalorus 26 Include:
Narrative Feature Films
Best Summer Ever directed
by Michael Parks Randa &
Lauren Smitelli
Drought directed by Hannah
Black & Megan
Petersen
Freeland directed by
Kate McLean, Mario Furloni
Inspector Ike directed by Graham Mason
Documentary Feature Films
Belly of the Beast
directed by Erika Cohn
El Father Plays Himself directed by Mo Scarpelli
Stories I Didn't Know directed by Melody Gilbert, Rita
Davern
The Chasing of a Great Movie directed by Jennifer Sharp
Short Films
A Syrian Woman directed by
Khawla Al Hammouri, Louis Karim Sayad DeCaprio
Assholes directed by Jonny
Look
Augustus directed by Jon
Alston
Beneath the Earth directed by Joseph Rucker II
Brother directed by Ya'Ke
Chor(e)s directed by Danielle
Deadwyler
Don't Be a Sucka directed by A.J. Riggins
Fitness! Or a story about Sweat directed by Kana Hatakeyama
Future Ancestor directed by Josue Rivas
Heart Tick Kaboom directed by Grace Kim & Ty Lance
West
I'm Free Now, You Are Free directed by Ash Goh Hua
Kapaemahu directed by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer & Joe
WIlson
Kindred Kings directed by Trey
Gray
Liminal directed by Daniel
Abramovici
Little Chief directed by Erica
Tremblay
Must Love Pie directed by Patrick
Clement
Pink, White & Blue directed by Ash Malone
Schroon Lake directed by Eryka
Dellenbach
Second Seed directed by Baye & Asa
Sin Cielo directed by Jianna
Maarten
Tamales y Tunas directed by LucĂa Archila Escobar
Tbh: u cute directed by Bailey
James
The Black Baptism directed by Stephanie Diane Ford
The Rougarou directed by Lorraine
Caffery
Tides directed by Andre
Silva
Trudie's Goose directed by C. Lily
Ericsson, Cheri Gaulke,
Samara Hutman, Liran Kapel
Two Little Boys directed by Farbod Khoshtinat
Weekend directed by Ario Motevaghe
When the Waters Get Deep directed by Kelly Whalen
Click here for a sneak peak at the festival poster and find all
festival information at cucalorus.org.
The Cucalorus Film Festival is sponsored by the City of Wilmington, New Hanover County, University of North Carolina at Wilmington,
National Endowment for the Arts, and North Carolina Arts
Council.
Media Contact: Dan Brawley
dan@cucalorus.org / 910.599.0476
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