Thursday, April 26, 2018

Love and Bananas: An Elephant Story at the Strand

Love and Bananas at the Strand
Saturday, April 28 at 7 PM

"You don't need a bull hook to control an elephant. You can guide an elephant with love... And bananas"
- Lek Chailert, Founder of Save Elephant Foundation

Elephant rescues in Thailand are rare, unpredictable and often life threatening. After waiting 2.5 years, actor/director Ashley Bell and a team of elephant rescuers led by world renowned Asian elephant conservationist and TIME Magazine's Hero of Asia, Lek Chailert, embark on a daring mission 480 miles across Thailand to rescue Noi Na, a 70-year old partially blind trekking elephant and bring her to freedom.

African elephants are slaughtered for their ivory, but sadly the plight of the Asian Elephant has been completely overlooked even though they are the elephant we are most familiar with in zoos, circuses and elephant rides. L&B exposes the cruel secret that every Asian elephant has had to endure to become a service animal; a process knows as Pajan, aka The Crush Box. LOVE & BANANAS aims to ignite a new way of thinking about this species and shows what can be done to prevent the extinction of Asian elephants.

Watch a special invitation from the director:: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5a2yshzomivmubr/AAD8WYfAAF8_JB2AFRjUrcm5a?dl=0&preview=Love+and+Bananas+-+Vicksburg.mov

$5 Discount Advance Tickerts available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse. At the door: $7

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Coming: Keep the Change - a different romantic comedy...

After two weekends with no programs, 
the Strand presents: 
Keep the Change
Saturday, April 21 at 7 PM

When aspiring filmmaker David (Brandon Polansky) is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing: he doesn’t belong there. But when he’s assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah (Samantha Elisofon), sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah’s romantic past, David’s judgmental mother (Jessica Walter), and their own pre-conceptions of what love is supposed to look like. 

Under the guise of an off-kilter New York romantic comedy, Keep the Change does something quite radical in casting actors with autism to play characters with autism, offering a refreshingly honest portrait of a community seldom depicted on the big screen. Rarely has a romcom felt so deep and poignant. Thoroughly charming and quite funny, the film's warmth and candor brings growth and transformation to the characters, and ultimately, to us.

Watch the trailer: 

Discount advance tickets available at Highway 61 Coffeehouse: $5. At the door: $7.