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Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers
Overview
Connecting independent filmmakers with communities throughout the South for film screenings with conversations around stories, important topics, and the art of filmmaking.
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Apply now to host the Southern Circuit in your community for the 2023-2024 Season. Joint applications from multiple organizations welcome!
Learn moreDetailed Program Description
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The Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers connects independent filmmakers with communities throughout the South for screenings with conversations around stories, important topics, and the art of filmmaking. Since Southern Circuit’s inception in 1975, hundreds of filmmakers from around the country have toured, sharing their work and perspectives with over one hundred Screening Partner communities across the South.
Southern Circuit Screening Partner organizations host touring filmmakers and present screenings with Q&As and other engagements such as class visits, meet-and-greets, and workshops. Screening Partners include universities, community arts centers, municipalities, historic cinemas, places of worship, and more, serving diverse audiences of all ages.
Southern Circuit prioritizes featuring Southern filmmakers and stories. We are committed to presenting films by filmmakers of color, LGBTQ+ filmmakers, and filmmakers with disabilities. Filmmakers must have an ethical relationship with the topics and individuals/communities featured in their work. We are invested in including emerging and first-time filmmakers.
Southern Circuit is made possible through a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.
The 2022-2023 Southern Circuit Season
Films & Filmmakers
Refuge - September 2022
Erin Bernhardt and Din Blankenship (Director/Producers), Joseph East (Director of Photography), Chris Buckley and Arno Michaelis (Film Protagonists)
Stay Prayed Up - October 2022
D.L. Anderson and Matt Durning (Directors), Mother Perry and family (Film Protagonists), Phil Cook (Producer)
Outta the Muck - November 2022
Ira Mckinley (Director, Producer, Writer), Bhawin Suchak (Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor)
Home From School: The Children of Carlisle – February 2023
Geoffrey O'Gara (Director, Producer, Writer), Sophie Barksdale (Co-Producer), Jordan Dresser (Associate Producer, Chairman of the Northern Arapaho Business Council)
Mama Bears – March 2023
Daresha Kyi (Director)
Hazing - April 2023
Byron Hurt (Director), Natalie Bullock Brown (Producer)
Blurring the Color Line - March 2023
Crystal Kwok (Director, Producer)
Screening Partners
- Birmingham, AL – Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema
- Miami, FL – O Cinema
- Sarasota, FL – WSLR
- Atlanta, GA – Spelman College
- Hapeville, GA – City of Hapeville
- Lexington, KY – Living Arts and Science Center
- Pikeville, KY – University of Pikeville
- Cleveland, MS – Bologna Performing Arts Center, Delta State University
- Wilmington, NC – University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Cucalorus Film Festival, Working Films, and WHQR Public Media
- Winston-Salem, NC – a/perture cinema
- Clemson, SC – The Arts Center of Clemson & Clemson University World Cinema Studies Department
- Nashville, TN – Global Education Center & Fisk University
Views from the Southern Circuit
As filmmakers, we want our films to reach as broad and diverse an audience as possible. The Southern Circuit Tour makes that possible.
Pam Tom, Director, TyrusQuestions?
For questions about Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, contact Jordan Young.
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