Four local musicians gathered to share songs and stories for the second installment of Music On The Porch, hosted by the Center for the Study of the American South in Chapel Hill last Friday. A small crowd lined the lawn of the historic Love House and Hutchins Forum. Automobiles whisked by on Franklin Street, the […]
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The Full Frame interviews: Steve James
Watch an interview with Hoop Dreams Director Steve James at the 2009 Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC, where James curated a sidebar of documentary films entitled The Sporting Life. Hoop Dreams was revolutionary both in terms of scope and due to its immense popularity. In fact, when the film failed to gain a […]
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The Full Frame interviews: Joel Salatin from Food, Inc.
Watch an interview with farmer and prominent food advocate Joel Salatin at the 2009 Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, N.C., where Robert Kenner’s documentary, Food, Inc., was screened and featured Salatin’s sustainable practices at his Ployface Farm in Virginia. Ultimately, how a society raises and distributes its food is the clearest manifestation of that […]
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The Full Frame interviews: Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick
Watch a short interview with hippie icon and ice cream flavor Wavy Gravy and Michelle Esrick, director of Saint Misbehavin’ The Wavy Gravy Movie, following the film’s screening at the 2009 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, N.C. Satirist Paul Krasner describes Wavy as the “illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother Theresa, conceived […]