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• Special Film Event: PURPLE DREAMS

  • When
    22 Aug 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Hickory Community Theatre

  Special Film Event:  PURPLE DREAMS

  Winner of the 2017 Footcandle Film Festival's Audience Favorite Award

  Free and Open to the Public, Thursday, August 22nd, 7:00pm at the HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE

  With special guest Corey Mitchell, the musical theatre and theatre teacher featured in the film and currently in Hickory to work with the Hickory Community Theatre directing the upcoming production of Hair

  Hickory Community Theatre, the Footcandle Film Society and the United Arts Council of Catawba County are partnering to bring the inspiring documentary “Purple Dreams” to Hickory for a one night showing on Thursday, August 22 at 7:00pm.  

  Directed by Joanne Hock, “Purple Dreams” follows the talented and driven students of Charlotte’s Northwest School of the Arts, as black youth stereotypes are turned upside-down.  A three-year journey serves as an inspirational window into the lives of inner-city, at-risk students who succeed at their passion, while embracing the transformative power of their arts education as they audition, rehearse, and perform the first ever full-length high school production of The Color Purple, a Broadway musical based on Alice Walker’s award-winning novel. 

  Corey Mitchell, the musical theatre and theatre teacher at Charlotte’s Northwest School of Arts who oversaw the high school production, and is featured in the documentary, is currently in Hickory to work with the Hickory Community Theatre, directing the upcoming production of the landmark rock musical Hair, which begins performances on September 6. 

  The film screening is free and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30pm and the films starts at 7:00pm. Mitchell will be on hand to take questions from the audience following the film.

  "Purple Dreams" Trailer from GreyHawk Films on Vimeo.

  
  

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• Newton-Conover Film Screening: THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM

  • When
    26 Aug 2019
  •  
    7:00 PM
  • Location
    Newton-Conover Auditorium, 60 W 6th St, Newton NC

  August Newton-Conover Film Screening

  THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM

  Monday, August 26th

  Newton-Conover Auditorium, Newton

  7:00pm  •  $5.00 for all tickets
  

  The Footcandle Film Society will be screening the documentary film THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM on Monday, August 26th at the Newton-Conover Auditorium near Downtown Newton. The showtime is 7:00pm.

  This screening is part of a monthly film series at the Newton-Conover Auditorium hosted by the Footcandle Film Society.  An optional discussion of the film will take place in the auditorium immediately after the conclusion of the film.  There will be beer, wine, beverage and refreshments for sale before the film.  The screening is open to the public and all potential future film society members are welcome; no membership to the film society is required to attend the screening.

  About the film:  are followed through their successes and failures as they work to develop a sustainable farm on 200 acres outside of Los Angeles. Over the years, the desolate they purchase begins to thrive and its transformed.  This film was the winner of the Best Documentary awards at the Sedona International Film Festival and has been nominated or won awards at several other festivals in recent months.

  This film is rated PG for mild thematic elements.

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• 2019 Footcandle Film Festival

  • Start
    27 Sep 2019
  • End
    29 Sep 2019
  • Location
    Drendel Auditorium at the SALT Block

  Visit www.footcandlefilmfestival.com for information about this year's festival!

  The Footcandle Film Festival is designed to bring unique, challenging and entertaining films to Western North Carolina every September. The festival is being held by the founders and members of the Footcandle Film Society, a 650-member group dedicated to screening and discussing films on a monthly basis.  The society was formed in late 2007 by Alan Jackson & Chris Frye.  The inaugural film festival was held in September of 2015.
  

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