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May 16, 2008
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The First Annual Short Circuit Film Festival

Free admission, popcorn and drinks

The FCCJ Artist Series with the support of the Fernandina Beach News–Leader, the Nassau County Record, the Amelia Island Film Festival, and the Betty P. Cook Nassau Center, will present the Southern Arts Federation’s First Annual Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival (PDF) at the FCCJ Betty P. Cook Nassau Room, in Yulee, on Friday, May 30, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The program will conclude the 2007–2008 Courtyard Night’s Series. The festival is the first of its kind to exclusively spotlight short films created by filmmakers living and working in the Southeastern United States. Admission, popcorn and drinks are free.

The Short Circuit Film Festival is comprised of 12 short films selected for their artistic merit by a panel of esteemed media arts professionals. These engaging selections range from fiction and animation to experimental and documentary. This year, the festival features work by filmmakers from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Over the past year, the Short Circuit has traveled throughout the Southeast as a self–contained, 2.5 hour film festival that may be enjoyed in a single evening.

Spotlighted films in the 2007–2008 Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival include An Abstraction on the Chronology of Will, the fictional account a young, apathetic Special–Op soldier who rediscovers his will to live after being faced with a firing squad in the desert, and Bowl Digger, the loving documentary of octogenarians Maxie and Hilton Eades who create wooden bowls and dough trays in rural South Carolina.

The Short Circuit Traveling Film Festival is a program of the Southern Arts Federation (SAF), a non–profit regional arts organization. Founded in 1975, SAF creates partnerships and collaborations; assists in the development of artists, arts professional and arts organizations; present, promotes and produces Southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates for the arts and arts education. The organization works in partnership with the state arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. For more information on the Southern Arts Federation and its programs, visit it’s Web site.

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