Shorts @ High Noon continues October 11
Shorts @ High Noon, the weekday series of short film screenings of selections from the Beaufort International Film Festival (BIFF), continues on Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Every Wednesday, check-in is at 11:30 a.m., at the Technical College Of The Lowcountry Auditorium (Building 12) at 921 Ribaut Road in Beaufort. Screenings begin promptly at noon and will last approximately an hour.
Admission is free.
SCHEDULE
(Asterisks indicate BIFF 2023 Category Winners)
Oct. 11: Processing Magic (5 minutes, Animated), Bound (13 minutes, Student), Sacrificios (14 minutes, Short), Ms. Rossi 2* (18 minutes, Short)
Oct. 18: The Tale Of Captain Fortyhands (15 minutes, Student), Dancing With Shadows (14 minutes, Short), Ivalu (17 minutes, Short)
Oct. 25: The Son, The Father (14 minutes, Short), Wicked Image (9 minutes, Short), Wicked Plans (6 minutes, Short), Ghosted (17 minutes, Short)
Nov. 1: Murder Tongue (18 minutes, Short), Past Prologue* (17 minutes, Short), Naptime (10 minutes, Short)
Nov. 8: Overdue (15 minutes, Short), My Over There (13 minutes, Short), A Best Man (13 minutes, Short), Wheel (10 minutes, Short)
Nov. 15: Beaufort Film Society Members will vote on one of three 2024 BIFF submissions t help determine an official selection for the upcoming festival. Proof of membership is required.
USCB Lunch with Author series kicks off with Mary Kay Andrews
This year’s University of South Carolina Beaufort Lunch with Author series will begin at noon Wednesday, Oct. 25 at The Belfair Clubhouse in Bluffton. The author, Mary Kay Andrews, will be discussing her new book Bright Lights, Big Christmas.
Books will be available for purchase and the author will be signing books. Tickets are $60. Deadline to register is October 17.
The Lunch with Author series will continue on Nov. 7, with Tracey Enerson Wood and her book The President’s Wife. For additional information go to USCBCenterForTheArts.com or call 843-521-4145.
About Bright Lights, Big Christmas
It’s a long way from a Christmas tree farm in the mountains of North Carolina to a certain street corner in Greenwich Village, but Kerry Tolliver — newly unemployed and romantically unattached — reluctantly agrees to make the trek and live in a tiny vintage camper with her gruff older brother (and his dog, Queenie) out of family loyalty.
Selling Christmas trees at the family’s stand on a New York City sidewalk, Kerry begins to feel at home, succumbing to the charms of the quirky neighborhood, and making new friends who become like family … and maybe more. Surrounded by warm childhood memories, sparkling possibility, and the magic of Christmas, will this small-town girl surrender her heart to the bright lights of the big city?
The author
Andrews is The New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House Cookbook and 30 novels, including The Homewreckers, The Santa Suit, The Newcomer, The High Tide Club, The Weekenders, Ladies’ Night, Summer Rental, The Fixer Upper, Deep Dish, Blue Christmas, Savannah Breeze, Hissy Fit, Little Bitty Lies, and Savannah Blues. A former journalist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Andrews lives in Atlanta.
– From staff reports