Mississippi Film Showcase at the Strand - Sat. Feb. 25 all day

On Feb. 25th, Running Wild Films and The Strand Theatre will present a showcase of films made in Mississippi and by Mississippi filmmakers, including a special screening of Running Wild film's new feature film Don't Come Around Here. 

The event will include a reception with attending film makers.

Here is the final schedule and lineup of films: 

12:15 pm - Introduction with director Travis Mills and theater programmer Daniel Boone

12:30 pm - Running Wild Films in Mississippi (Featuring shorts and documentaries filmed in Mississippi)

1:30 pm - Mississippi Short Films
Featuring:
The Farmer - Tonia Lee
Hello - Konnor Megginson
Kindness of Strangers - Curtis Everitt
Perfect - Lynn Forney
Lowest Bidders (Web Series Episode) - Will Black

2:30 pm - Socializing/Networking Break

3:00 pm - Mississippi School of the Arts Student Films

4:00 pm - Panel Discussions with Mississippi Actors & Filmmakers

5:00pm - Documentaries
Featuring:
The Well Driller - Matt McCoy
Slow Buttery Death - Neil Brimelow

6:00 pm - Happy Hour with Complimentary Appetizers & Cash Bar

7:00 pm - OzLand Feature Film by Michael Williams

9:30 pm - Don't Come Around Here Feature Film by Navid Sanati. (read article from Daily Leader)

Please join us for this celebration of Mississippi film.

Whole Day Passes are available from Brown Paper Tickets and at Highway 61 Coffeehouse for $25. Tickets for individual programs will be available at the door on the day.

All in one weekend: Oscar nominee & an Opera

Saturday, February 18 at 7 PM: Life, Animated

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Directed by: Roger Ross Williams
A Release from The Orchard

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Synopsis

The Strand opens our 2017 film series with this 2017 Oscar Nominee: LIFE, ANIMATED. It is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn’t speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood. The family was forced to become animated characters, communicating with him in Disney dialogue and song. Until they all emerge, together, revealing how, in darkness, we all literally need stories to survive. Incredible story well told.

Watch the trailer

$5 advance discount tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse / $7 at the door

Sunday, February 19 at 2 PM: La Cenerentola

Our first onscreen opera of the season: La Cenerentola

(based on the Cinderella story)

Opera in 2 acts (1817) 

Music by Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) 

Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti (1784-1852) 

Capturing all the vocal sparks and dazzle generated by the charismatic Juan Diego Flórez and stunning Joyce DiDonato, this "may just be the definitive performance of Rossini's enchanting rags­to­riches fairy­tale," (Opera Today). With his airy, effortless high notes and perfect command of rapid­fire Rossinian parlando, Flórez once again proves that he was born to sing Rossini. American mezzo Joyce DiDonato is not only a beautiful Angelina, but also a prodigiously gifted artist who moves with ease and grace from the most delicate pianissimi to the most heartrending outbursts of passion. Conducting the Orchestra of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Patrick Summers leads “an effervescent reading” (Opera Today) that is fully supported by the rest of the top­notch cast. Director Joan Font and his designer Joan Guillén keep the audience busy with many lovingly crafted details, including dancing mice, cheerily colorful costumes and imaginative lighting effects, courtesy of Albert Faura. Light and bubbly, this is Rossini at his finest..

$15 advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse

$18 at the door

Upcoming:

Mississippi Film Showcase 
Sat. Feb 25 / Noon to 11 P
concludes with
Don't Come Around Here
(Meet film makers)
All day pass - $25

Film
The Salesman - Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film
From Iran by the director of
A Separation
Sat. March 4 at 7 PM
$7* 

Film - Free!
Alfred Hitchcock's
Shadow of a Doubt 
Sat. March 11 at 7 PM
Hitch called it his favorite film. Free while seats remain.

Shakespeare Onscreen
Fantastic production of
The Tempest 

by The Royal Shakespeare Company from Stratford-upon-Avon. Amazing special effects bring Ariel to life.
Sunday, March 12 at 2 PM - $12*

Film
My Life as a Zucchini 
Saturday, March 18 at 7 PM. Oscar nominated animated film from Switzerland about a
young boy who is sent to a group home and his search for the family he never really had.
$7* 

*discount tickets available in advance at Highway 61 Coffeehouse

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