Millsaps College hosts the only Mississippi site for the Southern
Circuit Film Series.
Join us as innovative independent filmmakers screen and discuss
their films.
All films are free and show on Mondays at 7:00 pm in
Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex, room 215 on the Millsaps College
campus,
with a Q & A session to follow. For more information, contact Melissa Lea, 601-974-1755.
Also see the Millsaps Forums.
Read the great things filmmakers say about thier experiences
at Millsaps as they make the SCFS tour on the Southern Circuit Blog.
September 10, 2008
Shame with Mohammed Naqvi, producer/director
Shame tells the story of Mukhtaran Mai, a Pakistani woman who stood up to a tribal council and began an international human rights story. The documentary has been called stunning, remarkable and sensitive and has been shown at Film Festivals around the world. Variety called it “A powerfully written and directed essay in courage.”
October 15, 2008
Beyond the Call with Adrian Belic, producer/director
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Adrian Belic describes his film as “Mother Theresa meets Indiana Jones.” The film follows three middle-aged men as they travel the world delivering humanitarian aid. They go directly to people in areas that are too dangerous for conventional aid organizations.
November 12, 2008
Tjúba Tén (The Wet Season), and others, with Ben Russell, producer/director
Tjúba Tén is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. This film is composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings, and functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future. The filmmaker will also present other short ethnographic films made at different times and with different techniques as points of comparison and historical perspective.
February 11, 2009
TruLoved with Antonio Brown, producer and Stewart Wade, director
Tru Loved is a fictional film which deals with high school students and gay intolerance. It follows the story of a high school daughter of a lesbian couple as she deals with adjusting to gay intolerance at a new school.
March 9, 2009
Random Lunacy: Videos from the Road Less Traveled
with Victor Zimet, producer/director and Stephanie Silber, producer/director
This documentary chronicles the life and adventures of Poppa Neutrino and his family. From the streets of New York to a circus in Mexico to crossing the Atlantic on a homemade raft Random Lunacy follows this incredibly determined, resourceful, inventive and independent character and his family. It offers reflection on a life lived as a voluntary vagabond.
April 22, 2009
‘Bama Girl with Rachel Goslins, producer/director
‘Bama Girl follows a charismatic black woman at the University of Alabama as she runs for Homecoming Queen. She is going up against a century of ingrained racial segregation, internal black politics and a secret association of all-white fraternities called “The Machine” that has controlled student elections at the University for most of the past century.
