HairKutt Selected to Screen in Inaugural Hearts and Minds Films? Showcase Festival in Dover, Delaware May 5th-7th
St. Louis, MO (PRWEB) April 12, 2006
HairKutt, Reel Life Films’ award winning documentary about four friends from St. Louis, Missouri who travel to the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee in hopes of curing one of them from the throes of heroin addiction, has been selected as an official entry in the inaugural Hearts and Minds Films’ curated Lending Library for community issue-oriented films.
The festival will take place on the campus of Delaware State University and at the Schwartz Center for the Arts in downtown Dover, Delaware from Friday, May 5th to Sunday, May 7th. HairKutt will screen Saturday, May 6th at 7:00 p.m. at the Schwartz Center. The award winning film was one of 30 (out of over 200) films chosen through a highly competitive screening process for the initial Lending class.
The library will be updated each year and the selected films will be made available to hundreds of community-based organizations (CBOs) and businesses throughout the country for use in community outreach events.
HairKutt is the Reel Life story of Bryant “HairKutt” Johnson, a heroin addict of more than 15 years. The documentary takes many twists and turns as “HairKutt” becomes so debilitated from the withdrawal of the poisonous drug that he walks away from the rented cabin used as a drug rehab facility to return to the streets of St. Louis (more than a ten hour drive away) and the source of his addiction: heroin.
The film was produced and directed by Curtis Elliott of Reel Life Films and edited by Ben Scholle.
Hearts and Minds Films is a film company established to appeal to filmmakers, community-based organizations and businesses who believe in using the arts to promote civic engagement. By creating recognition events, panels and opportunities to discuss issues and enjoy quality films and discuss the issues the films address, Hearts and Minds hopes to help build community through film exhibition and outreach.
HairKutt has won three awards thus far, including the Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2006 Independent Black Film Festival in March, Best Social Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in Los Angeles in March 2005 and Best Documentary Feature at Cinema St. Louis’ Independent Filmmakers Showcase in July 2005.
The film made its’ public debut in front of a crowd of 700 at the famed Tivoli Theater in the University City, (MO) Loop on May 12th, 2005. For more info on the film or to view movie trailer, please visit www.itstoughtogetoffdrugs.com or Google Search keyword: HairKutt.
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