Chatham Arts’ 100 Mile Film Series

ChathamArts
115 Hillsboro Street
Pittsboro NC 27312
919.542.0394
www.chathamarts.org

Chatham Arts’ 100 Mile Film Series presents “Pearl Diver” followed by a question and answer session with the filmmaker, Sidney Ryan King. January 27^th at 7 pm at the General Store Café in Pittsboro, NC.

The Sustainable Cinema series runs every fourth Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. The series screens documentaries and independent films involving producers, directors, subjects and/or locations within 100 miles of Pittsboro. We like to keep it local! Proceeds benefit ChathamArts, which promotes and presents the arts through monthly cultural programs & events, artists residencies in the schools and community, gallery exhibits, and other community building efforts.

Pearl Diver is the story of two sisters, how they are haunted by the twenty-year-old murder of their mother, and what happens when an accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night.

This film won BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE at the Winnipeg Int'l Film Festival and at the East Lansing Film Festival, the CRYSTAL HEART AWARD at the Heartland Film Festival, the GRAND JURY PRIZE at the Indianapolis Int'l Film Festival and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at Woods Hole Film Festival. It has also screened at the St. Louis Int'l, Asheville, Bethel, Temecula Valley, Kansas Int'l, Rhode Island, Gloria Int'l and Stony Brook Film Festivals. It has been selected to screen at the upcoming Global Peace Film Festival, Malibu Celebration of Films and the Vermont Int'l Film Festival.

Admission is $5 and $3 for students for films at The General Store Café. The General Store Café provides a buffet dinner for $10 and also offers a cash bar. It is located at 39 West Street, just off the courthouse circle in historic downtown Pittsboro. More Information about the film series can be found at http://www.chathamarts.org/news/sustainablecinema9-08.html. For additional information contact ChathamArts, 919-542-0394, www.chathamarts.org.