If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.
Stanley Kubrick
ENTERTAIN. EDUCATE. ENGAGE.
Covey Film Festival 2019
October 16-26
But First...Two Spring Tuesday Pop Ups!
May 7
May 7, 7PM; Reception at 6PM
Thomasville History Center
725 N Dawson, Thomasville.
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or carry on the fight against incredible odds.
Darkest Hour received eight 2018 Academy Award nominations including two winners: Best Actor, (Gary Oldman) and Best MakeUp.
Join us at 6PM for a tour of a real bomb shelter, an exciting WWII exhibit, and period cocktails and bites.
St Thomas Episcopal Church
216 W Remington, Thomasville
Directed and produced by award-winning documentarian Susan Lacy, Jane Fonda in Five Acts is described as an intimate look at Fonda’s singular journey. It draws on 21 hours of interviews with Fonda, who speaks candidly and frankly about her life and her missteps. She explores the pain of her mother’s suicide, her father’s emotional unavailability, 30 years of an eating disorder and three marriages to highly visible, yet diametrically opposed, men. The docu also includes interviews with family and friends, including Robert Redford, Lily Tomlin, producer Paula Weinstein and former spouses Tom Hayden and Ted Turner, among others, as well as rare home movies and verité footage of the 81-year-old Fonda’s busy life today at, as she puts it, “the beginning of my last act.”
Jane will Skype in from LA to talk to the audience and answer questions.
The Covey Film Festival is not just an opportunity to sit down and eat popcorn while watching the big screen. It acknowledges that film is now recognized as a major cultural visual art form in the same league as dance, theatre, and fine art. Thomasville is unique in the film industry due to its involvement in film production as well as the number of people with ties to the area currently active in the film world. The Festival itself is a vehicle to entertain, educate and engage audiences through the screening of over twenty acclaimed films—in addidtion to special events and pop-ups—during Covey’s sixth season in October.
The Festival is also the signature fundraising event for the Thomasville Community Resource Center which for twenty years has provided services to children, their families, and the community. All net proceeds return to TCRC for services (like the STEAM—science, technology, engineering, arts, math—program) for 500 children and their parents in ten sites in Thomas, Mitchell, and Grady Counties. To learn more about TCRC, click the logo below.
We deeply regret that all 2018 scheduled films could not be shown due to preparations for Hurricane Michael and its impact on the community which extended beyond our control.
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