Arts Council presents Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers

GAINESVILLE - The Arts Council presents The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers in conjunction with Gainesville State College and South Arts.

The tour is an interactive program that will bring six award-winning independent films and their filmmakers to Gainesville.

The last of six films is actually one feature and two short films presented by Linda Duvoisin; you don't know what i got, We Shall Not Be Moved: The Nashville Sit-ins and The Chattanooga Sit-ins. They will screen on April 12 at Gainesville State College, Academic Building IV. The movies will start at 7:30 followed by a 'Meet the Filmmaker' reception. Tickets: $7 Adults; $5 Student/Seniors (65+). Series and individual tickets may be ordered online at www.theartscouncil.net or by calling the Arts Council at 770-534-2787.

you don't know what i got

Life. Love. Passion. Five women lay their heart and soul on the line: singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco, activist/poet Linda Finney, police officer Julie Brunzell, artist/architect Myrtle Stedman and housekeeper Jimmie Woodruff. Through a tapestry of homespun stories, confessions, advice, music and poetry, a story evolves of a cross-section of American women with an extraordinary passion for life.

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Nashville Sit-ins

Over a period of several months in 1960, college students from Fisk University and other schools staged a non-violent protest at downtown lunch counters. The protests caught the city's white establishment off-guard and culminated in the mayor agreeing to end segregation of lunch counters while facing thousands of protestors gathered on the steps of City Hall and with the eyes of the nation watching. It was just the first step in ending segregation in all facets of life throughout the city and is credited with inspiring similar movements throughout the South.

We Shall Not Be Moved: The Chattanooga Sit-ins

In February of 1960, at the same time that the better-known Nashville lunch counter sit-ins were taking place, students in Chattanooga staged their own, similar protest. As there was no local college for black students at the time, the Chattanooga protests were organized and carried out by Howard High School students. Their first-hand accounts of the sit-ins bring to life the dangers and fears they endured to force change in their own community and our country.

Trailers for each film in the series may be viewed at the Arts Council's website www.theartscouncil.net.

The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers is a program of South Arts. Southern Circuit screenings are funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Special support for Southern Circuit was provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.