Covey Film Festival – Entertain. Educate. Engage.

The Covey Film Festival acknowledges that film is now recognized as a major cultural art form just as much as visual arts, dancing, theatre, and fine art. The Festival is a vehicle to educate audiences while also entertaining and engaging them through the screening of over twenty-plus films during Covey’s sixth season this coming October. Thomasville is unique in its early history of involvement in film production as well as the number of area residents, whether full time or seasonal, with ties here currently active in the film world.

Covey 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 go back for the sole use of TCRC for services to 500 children and their parents in ten sites in Thomas, Mitchell, and Grady Counties. Learn more about TCRC by clicking the logo below.

Celeste

A young man journeys to discover how to move on after his wife’s untimely death. When the line between reality and memory starts to haunt him, he must work with two unexpected women with mysterious abilities to help him close the door between this world and the world of his

Eagle Huntress

Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle huntress.

Finding Dory

The friendly but forgetful blue tang fish, Dory, begins a search for her long-lost parents, and everyone learns a few things about the real meaning of family along the way.

Good Fortune

GOOD FORTUNE is the rags to riches tale of conscious capitalism pioneer John Paul DeJoria. Born with nothing, at times homeless on the streets of LA, “JP” spent his early adulthood in and out of motorcycle gangs only to wheel and deal his way to the top of a vast

Harry & Snowman

Harry & Snowman

The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.

Hidden Figures

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

I Am Not Your Negro

I Am Not Your Negro

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Writer James Baldwin

Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue

Janis Joplin: Little Girl Blue

Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin’s evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.

Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings

A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.

LaLa Land

Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each

Filmmaker ‘excited’ for local premiere

Filmmaker ‘excited’ for local premiere

THOMASVILLE — Michael Carney came to Thomasville looking for East St. Louis. Instead, he’s found a new home.
Carney, a filmmaker, will have the regional premiere of his movie “Same Kind of Different As Me” on Oct. 26 at Gateway Cinemas.
“I’m very excited,” Carney said of the film’s local

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Workshop weighs local pluses, minuses for film industry

Workshop weighs local pluses, minuses for film industry

THOMASVILLE — While Thomasville may not become Hollywood South overnight, the curtain could be rising on the area’s chances on becoming a film mecca.
As part of the ongoing Covey Film Festival, a workshop earlier this week explored what it would take for Thomasville and Thomas County to be home

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Covey continues with Sunday TU event

Covey continues with Sunday TU event

By Jordan Barela jordan.barela@gaflnews.com
October 20, 2017
Florida State University film students will get the chance to screen their work to the Thomasville community Sunday.
As part of the ongoing Covey Film Festival, seven FSU film students will present short films at Thomas University.
FSU film professor Paul Cohen, also

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