Free Screening of Ballast
On September 24, 2008 by Staff
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ImageNation Film Festival, Alluvial Film Company,
and the Riverside Theatre present
A FREE Community Screening of
BALLAST
Winner of Best Director & Best Cinematography
at the Sundance Film Festival
7pm, Thursday, September 25th
The Riverside Theatre at The Riverside Church
91 Claremont Ave at 120th Street
New York, NY
Take the 1 or 9 to 116th Street
Click here to rsvp or call 212-340-1874 |
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“A startingly assured, pitch-perfect first feature.”
- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“A journey of discovery that forces us to cast off the clichés of race, poverty and existence in the Deep South.”
- Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
SYNOPSIS
A single mother and her troubled 12-year-old son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. A suicide thrusts them into a world of an emotionally devastated – and estranged relative – awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. With the boy’s future hanging in the balance, the two adults must reckon with the past and search for a new way forward.
Winner – ’08 Sundance Film Festival, Dramatic Directing Award
Winner – ’08 Sundance Film Festival, Excellence in Cinematography Award
Winner – ’08 Independent Film Festival Boston – Grand Jury Prize
Winner – ’08 San Francisco International Film Festival- Fipresci Prize
Winner – ’08 Buenos Aires Int’l Film Festival – Fipresci & Directing Award
OPENS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st at THE FILM FORUM
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