Next Film Society Screening:
NICKEL BOYS
screening at the Carolina Theater in Downtown Hickory
Wednesday, May 7th and Thursday, May 8th
at 7pm each night.
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, NICKEL BOYS tells the story of a powerful friendship that develops between two young African-American men as they navigate the harrowing trials of reform school together. The film received two Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving racism, some strong language including racial slurs, and violent content. Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes.
Watch trailer for NICKEL BOYS
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2025 Footcandle Filmmaker Grant Fund
The Footcandle Film Society, through the Filmmaker Grant Program, provides financial support to projects that help to further the use of film as a story-telling medium and have a majority of their production work take place in North Carolina. The grant money is intended to help a filmmaker move towards their goal of completing their project so that it can be submitted to national film festivals or secure a distribution arrangement.
The 2025 grant applications must be completed by June 30, 2025, and the award recipients will be notified no later than August 30 2025. The award(s) will be publicly presented at the 2025 Footcandle Film Festival during the weekend of September 26-28.
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WHAT IS FOOTCANDLE?
Footcandle Film Society was founded in 2008 and has provided the citizens of Catawba County with an opportunity to view and discuss films that have traditionally not been available or shown in theaters in the area. The film society has shown at least one film per month since its inception, with the films ranging from documentaries, foreign narratives, and award-nominated movies of all genres. The screenings all include moderated discussions of the films. In addition to the monthly film screenings, the film society also brings the annual Footcandle Film Festival and Children's International Film Festival events to Western North Carolina.