Sunday November 15, 2009
Mississippi Damned (Cucalorus)
Wanting to escape was the easy part. Taking place in 1986 and 1998 and based on a true story, three poor, Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence. They independently struggle to escape their circumstances and must decide whether to confront what's plagued their family for generations or succumb to the same crippling fate, forever damned in Mississippi. Bitterly honest and profoundly subtle, writer/director Tina Mabry successfully captures growing up in a world where possibilities and opportunities seem to die in the face of the suffocating reality of physical and sexual abuse, obsession, and a myriad of destructive compulsions.
Mississippi Damned won the Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2009 Urbanworld Film Festival, the Grand Jurty Award for Narrative Features at the 2009 American Black Film Festival, the Jury Award for Best American Independent Film at the 2009 Philadelphia Film Festival and the Special Jury Award for Narrative Breakthrough at the 2009 Atlanta Film Festival.
Director: Tina Mabry
Cinematographer: Bradford Young
Producer: Morgan R. Stiff, Lee V. Stiff
Format: 35mm
Runtime: 2 hours
ACE Films partners with Cucalorous Film Festival to host screenings in UNCW's Lumina Theater.
Info on the festival can be found at: Cucalorus.org
Tickets will be available at Sharky's Box Office on the first floor of the Fisher Student Center, next to the entrance for Lumina Theater. Tickets may also be purchased at www.etix.com.
Lumina Theater. 1 p.m. Advance Tickets Recommended or carry a Cucalorus Pass. Presented by the Cucalorus Film Festival.
Parking: On Thursday and Friday before 5 p.m., Cucalorus guests my park at one of the 25 hooded meters on Riegel Road, utelize the Greene Track parking lot or the Visitors Parking lot. After 5 p.m. parking lot E will also be available. During the weekend, Cucalorus guests may park in any lot. Please refer to the interactive campus map: http://www.uncw.edu/ba/campus_map/index.htm
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