Cinema Arts Centre To Screen Oscar-Nominated Documentary Film

Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington will host a one-night only screening of Oscar-nominated documentary “Hale County, This Morning, This Evening” in February.

The screening of this documentary film, from filmmaker Ramell Ross, is part of the Cinema Arts Centre's Black History Month film series.

From Cinema Arts Centre

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, “Hale County, This Morning, This Evening” allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South – trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming – despite the odds.

In Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Ross offers an inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people. The film presents Daniel Collins and Quincy Bryant, two young African American men from rural Hale County, Alabama, over the course of five years. Collins attends college in search of opportunity while Bryant becomes a father to an energetic son in an open-ended, poetic form that privileges the patiently observed interstices of their lives. The audience is invited to experience the mundane and monumental, birth and death, the quotidian and the sublime, all of which combine to communicate the region's deep culture and glimpse the complex ways the African American community's collective image is integrated into America's visual imagination. (USA, 2018, 76 min., NR, English | Dir. Ramell Ross)

The fee is $7 for members and $12 for the public. The documentary screening will take place Thursday, Feb. 7 at 7:30 p.m.

To learn more about the event contact Nate Close at (631) 423-7610 x 15, email at nate@cinemaartscentre.org, or visit our website www.cinemaartscentre.org

Image courtesy Cinema Arts Centre