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ONE EIGHTY18 0° appalachia A NEW PBS SERIESby theJAMES AGEE FILM PROJECT AppalachiaAPPA Post 8-08.indd 1 LACHIA8/15/08 3:29:42 PM A HISTORY of MOUNTAINS and PEOPLE NARRATED BY Sissy Spacek A four-part series for PBS exploring the intersection of natural history and human history in one of America's national treasures DIRECTED BY ROSS SPEARS • PRODUCED BY JAMIE ROSS TheA MotionPRODUCTION OF THE JAMES AGEE FILM PROJECT Picture FEATURING: Barbara Kingsolver, E.O. Wilson, Henry Louis Gates, Denise Giardina, Mary Lee Settle,Industry Wilma Dykeman, Ron Eller, Sharyn McCrumb, Gurney Norman, George Constantz ALSO FEATURING : Chris Bolgiano, Judy Bonds, Charles Hudson, Theda Perdue, Jerry Wolfe, Winter 2009 Winter Newsletter Freeman Owle, Laura Pennix, Loyal Jones, Helen Lewis, Bob Zahner, Harvard Ayers, Lamar Marshall www.ageefilms.org www.appalachiafilm.org DESIGN BY: FUNDING PROVIDED BY the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, as well as the Southern Humanities Media Fund, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the humanities councils of Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and North Carolina. Appalachia Post 8-08.indd 2 8/15/08 3:29:47 PM New HBO TV Film Festival ) who also is involved in know? And coming back to our home Contact NC Film Office Eastbound, was one year ahead of them. state, there are so many good things. I State of Motion series Eastbound But they all became like family, Best mean, we bring business to it, we get to Information Rocks at Sundance said. Most recently, Green directed be by the ocean,” Best said. McBride in the hit Pineapple Express, Staff and Down unites opposite Seth Rogen and James Franco. He’s been to Wilmington many times Aaron Syrett, Director The North Carolina Film Office old friends over the past 20 years and helped showcased North Carolina’s Southern A couple years ago, while sitting on the produce the pilot, which filmed in Hannah Whitley, hospitality and the ease of working in couch at his home in Charlotte, Best Wilmington the summer of 2007. But he Executive Assistant our state to Sundance Film Festival got a call from McBride. Will Ferrell had to wait until late 2008 to return for to the Director guests with a 10-by-3.5-foot rocking By Amy Hotz had seen Hill, Best and McBride’s the full series. director’s chair weighing more than independent movie The Footfist Way Sallie Hedrick, 1,000 pounds at the Salt Lake City Not long ago, UNCSA Alumni Ben (which was released theatrically in May “It was a little bit of a fight, but once Production Executive International Airport. Best, Danny McBride and pal Jody Hill 2008) and wanted to know if they had we got here, HBO immediately brought combined the money in their pockets anything else in the works. It turns out, another show here, (HBO’s) “Little Phone The oversized freestanding installation to buy a case of beer, which they sipping beer in kiddie pools was good Britain (USA),” and they love it. They 866.468.2273 toll free was on display until the end of January. consumed while sitting in a kiddie pool for the creative juices. One of the ideas love coming to Wilmington.” 919.733.9900 tel Egyptian Theatre, Sundance Film Festival The director’s chair with the filmNC behind Best’s house in Charlotte. They they threw around that day became 919.715.0151 fax logo rocked gently in the baggage claim Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. The chair rocked were each broke and dreaming. Eastbound and Down. Courtesy Star News area next to the Sundance Film Festival Physical Address continuously, thanks to a quiet motor shuttle. “It was a really nice day and we were Ferrell’s company, Gary Sanchez Eastbound and Down premieres February North Carolina Film Office and subtle lighting drawing attention to sitting there and we just started talking Productions, produced a six-episode 15 on HBO 301 N. Wilmington Street the installation. The chair is generated 0° “The rocking film director’s chair is a about ideas for TV shows because season for HBO this past winter in Raleigh, North Carolina USA intended buzz, with coverage in USA visual reminder to the film industry how David (Gordon) Green was hitting it Wilmington. McBride, who also writes For more information visit: www.hbo. 27601 TODAY and the Salt Lake Tribune, easy it is to film in North Carolina,” says among others. off so well,” Best said, referring to a for the show, stars as Kenny, a washed com/eastboundanddown Aaron Syrett, NC Film Office director. schoolmate who had found success in up professional baseball player. After Mailing Address “North Carolina’s infrastructure, Hollywood. “We were actually showing getting kicked off the team, the only North Carolina Film Office As attendees departed the festival the diverse geography and competitive tax up at parties and there would be people place Kenny has to go is back home to 4324 Mail Service Center North Carolina Film Office’s new ad incentives are just a few reasons film there that were in the industry and so Shelby, N.C. Salt is thrown onto that Raleigh, North Carolina USA campaign featuring the rocking chair producers can sit back and relax while we figured we’d better start coming up ego-busting wound when the only job he 27699-4324 was displayed on 11 digital display filming in the state.” panels at the airport. with good ideas and have stuff ready in can find is as a P.E. teacher at a middle 8 case we were ever talking to someone.” school. www.ncfilm.com The chair took one month to create Watch the chair rock on YouTube: www. and two hours to install onsite on youtube.com/watch?v=DlHcjsMjEUo The three friends met in 1995 at the N.C. For Best, Wilmington has offered a School of the Arts. Green, who wrote comfortable and ideal place to film. and directed All The Real Girls (winner Ben Best and Danny McBride. of the 2003 Jury Prize at the Sundance “We just wanted to get ... out of L.A., you Photo Courtesy Fred Norris/HBO 1 UNCSA Alumni Receive Honors By Marla Carpenter the undergraduate competition – for Jeffrey S. Taylor, who is a UNCSA his work on the student film Asphyxia. college senior, was among four students Asphyxia also screened at the Ojai, awarded honorable mention in the Cucalorus and Asheville film festivals. competition for his work on the student film 1915, which also won the Directors “These students have demonstrated an Guild of America (DGA) Award. ability to create images for their films Two UNCSA film students have been that visually evoke the emotions of the Both Dunson and Taylor will receive honored by the American Society of story in a collaborative environment,” their awards as part of the 23rd Annual Cinematographers (ASC). says ASC President Daryn Okada. “The American Society of Cinematographers ASC designed this award to encourage Outstanding Achievement Awards Aaron Dunson, who graduated in 2008, talented student filmmakers to pursue ceremony in Los Angeles on February Front Cover: earned the ASC Burton Stone Heritage careers in cinematography. Several past 15. Award for outstanding achievement in winners are now working in the industry student filmmaking – the top prize in and following their dreams.” 180° Winter 2009 2 3 180° Winter 2009 Upcoming Bees is the NCFO on THE Events Mark It! People’s Choice Facebook That’s Not Mine! Film Festival APPALACHIA Slate Durham, NC The miniseries Appalachia, partly filmed A H I S T O R Y OF The North Carolina Film Office February 20 - 21, 2009 in Asheville, NC will premiere in April M O U N T A I N S The Secret Life of Bees took top honors The North Carolina Film Office made its www.tnmfilmfest.com 2009 on PBS. The four-part film tells AND PEOPLE of the 2008 People’s Choice Awards Facebook debut in early January. The would like to thank North Carolina’s BY in early January. The Secret Life of North Carolina Film Office Facebook the story of Appalachia through the birth NARRATED 6 regional film commissions for their Nevermore Film Festival of the mountains, its people and culture, SISSY SPACEK Bees won awards for Favorite Drama page features pictures, videos, event tremendous efforts and continued Durham, NC its wildlife, development and more, and Favorite Independent Movie. information and more! With a Facebook February 20 - 22, 2009 said producer Jamie Ross, a former Actresses Queen Latifah and Dakota account, become a “fan” of the North support for North Carolina’s Fanning accepted the awards during Carolina Film Office page and gain http://festivals.carolinatheatre. longtime Asheville resident. The $2.5 A FILM SERIES film industry. Together with the org/nevermore million high-definition film is narrated BY J A M I E R O S S the ceremony at the Shrine Auditorium exclusive access to the North Carolina AND ROSS SPEARS in Los Angeles. The Secret Life of Film Office. Creation of the Facebook Charlotte Regional Film Commission, by Oscar-winning actress Sissy Spacek Featuring: E.O. Wilson, Barbara Kingsolver, George Constantz, Funded by a major gr ant from Ron Eller, Wilma Dykeman, Mary Lee Settle, Nikki Giovanni, the National Science Foundation. Charles Hudson, Sharyn McCrumb, Denise Giardina, Judy Bonds, Additional funding provided by Bees filmed in the Wilmington area page is another progressive step taken Carolina Film and Video Festival and directed by Oscar nominee Ross Bo Taylor, Helen Lewis, Freeman Owle, Chris Bolgiano, the Arthur Vining Davis Foundatons, Durham Film Commission, Eastern Gurney Norman, and many more.