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The Springs • September 2020 • 19 SUBJECT TO CHANGE! THE SPRINGS MAGAZINEH 10 FOR DAILY UPDATES, PLEASE VISIT www.HSDFI.org • 2020 HSDFF SCHEDULE • THE CATE BROTHERS AND DIRECTOR BENJAMIN MEADE Sun | Oct 11 | 4:00-5:00PM Free for VIP Passholders $15/Ticket THE CATE BROTHERS Arkansas-based Earl and Ernie Cate were prolific songwriters and singers who blended the blues with elements of rock & roll, country and rockabilly. Pianist/vocalist Ernie and guitarist/vocalist Earl signed to Asylum Records in 1975; their self-titled debut, issued shortly after, included appearances by Donald “Duck” Dunn, Steve Cropper, former Band drummer Levon Helm, and former Eagle and Poco member Timothy B. Schmidt. They followed up their debut in 1976 with “In One Eye and Out the Other,” trailed in 1977 by “The Cate Brothers Band.” Spurred by the success of the single “Union Man,” 1979’s “Fire on the Tracks” reached number 24 on the album rock charts in 1976. Despite a dearth of recordings through the 1980s, the band remained a popular touring act in Tennessee, Arkansas and other strongholds of country AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR, SAM rock and blues around the South. In the early ‘80s, Earl and Ernie joined Helm and others to form a reconstructed version of the Band, which by that point POLLARD WITH THE FILM MLK/FBI had lost guitarist Robbie Robertson; aside from touring with Helm, they also Sat | Oct 17 | 4:00-5:00PM collaborated with blues singer Maria Muldaur. The Cate Brothers continued Free for VIP Passholders recording into the 1990s; in 1995, they issued “Radioland,” a unique hybrid $15/Ticket of pop-oriented blues-rock, Stax-era soul-blues and country-rock on which they were joined by former John Mayall blues guitar phenom Coco Montoya. A new album, “Play by the Rules,” was released in 2004. ABOUT THE FILM: BENJAMIN MEADE, DIRECTOR OF CATE BROTHERS: MLK/FBI is the first film to uncover the extent of the FBI’s surveillance ARKANSAS ROCK & SOUL ROYALTY and harassment of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on newly discovered and declassified files, utilizing a trove of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and unsealed by the National Archives, as well Benjamin Meade attended the Music as revelatory restored footage, the documentary explores the government’s Conservatory in Kansas City studying six history of targeting Black activists, and the contested meaning behind some years with the piano, guitar, and several of our most cherished ideals. Featuring interviews with key cultural figures woodwind instruments. After graduating including former FBI Director James Comey and directed by Emmy® Award- in 1977, he met and worked with Stan winner and Oscar®-nominee Sam Pollard, MLK/FBI tells this astonishing and Brakhage in Boulder, Colorado for several tragic story with searing relevance to our current moment. months learning experimental film technique and aesthetic. Stan Brakhage worked with him in the development of DIRECTOR: SAM POLLARD many short experimental films. While teaching in Hungary, he met filmmaker Sam Pollard is an Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated director Andras Suranyi and made the controversial and producer. His films for HBO, PBS, and the Discovery Channel include but touching film Vakvagany (2002) in the documentaries Four Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four 2001 (acquired by the Sundance Channel). He completed Das Bus in 2003 Acts, Slavery by Another Name, Sammy Davis, Jr.: I Gotta Be Me, ACORN and the (acquired by the Sundance Channel), and in 2004 co-produced Confederate Firestorm, Why We Hate, and Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children. States of America, directed by Kevin Willmott which played at The Sundance Pollard also directed two episodes of the groundbreaking series Eyes on the Film Festival and was released by IFC Films. He is the owner of Cosmic Cowboy Prize II. Studio and Records LLC in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a record label dedicated to showcasing marginalized musicians and new talent as well as re-issuing out of Since 1994 Pollard has served on the faculty of New York University’s print material in demand. Tisch School of the Arts. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives in New York City..