Thursday March 11, 8 pm to 9 pm
TPC is presenting a special showing of Anytown, USA: A documentary short film series profiling small towns in North Carolina, a series of programs created by Randolph Benson and produced by Critical Focus Pictures in collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. This series of shows shows each filmmaker’s life within the Covid-19 quarantine.
This special airing March 11, 8 pm – 9 pm, will feature the following stories:
- Healthy At Home directed by James Balfour. More than a month into the novel coronavirus pandemic, a self employed personal trainer finds her workplace closed and most of her clients and income gone. With the situation in the world not getting better anytime soon and no choice but to adapt, she completely changes her business. Gaining back some of her old clients and finding new ones, she transforms her methods to online, recovers her business, and even finds a silver lining.
- Wren directed by Jordan Daniel Mills. Wren is one of eight chickens who was rescued from the rubble of a tornado ravaged factory farm in Georgia. The lucky eight were taken to Piedmont Farm Animal Refuge in Pittsboro, NC.
- A Scene Along the Road directed by Random Gott. A Father / Son quarantine together is filled with artifacts and stories of personal and family history.
- Q is for Quarantine directed by Meredith Honig.
- Wear directed by Randolph Benson. As she’s quarantined at home in the midst of the worst global pandemic in a century, Kat makes masks.