SPECIAL EVENTS AND SCREENINGS
PREMIERE
NIGHT FILM AND RECEPTION:
$40
Thursday, November 12
Fine Arts Theatre / Pack Place, 7
to 11 pm
AN EDUCATION

Features a screening of An Education in Fine Arts Theatre followed
by a reception with desserts and cocktails in Pack Place immediately following the film.
It's 1961 in the London suburb of Twickenham, and bright sixteen-year-old Jenny
is on the cusp of womanhood, fantasizing about a more sophisticated, refined
life while smoking Gauloises cigarettes. Though she feels smothered by her
own adolescence, Jenny is an assiduous, cello-playing schoolgirl with a real
chance of landing a spot at Oxford University. Her path takes a turn, however,
when she meets David, a man who seems to embody her every fantasy.
David soon replaces Jenny's
traditional schooling with his own brand of education: art auctions,
smoky clubs, classical concerts and late-night
dinners with his stylish yet inane friends. Much to Jenny's amazement,
David even manages to charm her conservative parents, despite being nearly
twice her age. Their romance flourishes, and David whisks Jenny away
to Paris for her seventeenth birthday under the pretence of being chaperoned
by his “Aunt Helen.”
Upon her return, Jenny is the subject of intense scandal as her headmistress
and English teacher accuse her of throwing away her future. Just as Oxford
seems within reach, Jenny appears poised to embark on a new, rarefied
life.
Director: Lone Scherfig Executive Producers: Nick Hornby, David M. Thompson,
James D. Stern, Jamie Laurenson, Wendy Japhet, Douglas E. Hansen Producer:
Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey Screenplay: Nick Hornby Cinematographer: John
De Borman Editor: Barney Pilling
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike, Dominic Cooper,
Olivia Williams, Emma Thompson, Carey Mulligan
FOCUS ON LOCAL
FOCUS ON
LOCAL Screening: $8 in Advance/$9 at Festival
Friday, November 13
Diana Wortham Theatre, 9 pm
Features screenings
of local films and a Q&A with Asheville-based
filmmakers
BEER
Y’ALL
Beer. Rock & Roll. North Carolina. In July 2008, seven friends assembled
from across the state to tour 27 microbreweries and brewpubs from the mountains
to the coast in a seatless cargo van. The film follows their nine days of hanging
out with brewers, partying at rock shows, and drinking many, many beers as they
celebrate friendship, music and a Southern microbrewing explosion. Director/Producer:
Curt Arledge
ALISON (Work in Progress)
The story of a 30-something pregnant woman who begins to sense that something
is wrong – wrong with her life, her marriage, herself. Told in
a non-linear style that shifts in time from present to past and back,
the move follows Alison as she tries to make sense of her baby’s
impending birth. She abandons her husband moves into a derelict motel,
hoping to find some sense of where she’s headed and why she’s
been where she’s been. Director/Producer/Editor: Paul Schattel
Writers: Paul Schattel & The Alison Cast Director
of Photography: Kenneth Wilson II Cast: Lauren Fortuna, David MacDonald, Bryan Marshall,
Jessica Bachar, Jessica Tomasin
NEW
GENERATION SCREENING: FREE!
Saturday, November 14
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower, 11:30am
Each year, the Asheville Film Festival and the UNCA Department of Mass
Communication hold a free one-day filmmaking workshop for middle and
high school students called New Generation. Program participants work
directly with video production students in the Mass Communications program
to produce a short film, which is screened at the Festival. Come support
the New Generation of filmmakers!
IT'S A WRAP! (Winners Revealed After Party):
$20
Saturday, November 14
Pack Place,
9 to 11 pm
Come join us as we recognize and honor the 2009 Asheville
Film Festival winning filmmakers and announce this year’s Audience Award winners. Cocktails and appetizers included in ticket price.
It’s
not the awards ceremony you’re used to – it’s
a party! IT’S
A WRAP!
SPECIAL
SCREENING: $8 Advance/$9 During Festival
Sunday, November 15
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower, 1 pm
TEARING DOWN THE TENT
A documentary that
grants you a backstage pass to America’s largest traveling tent circus, The
Cole Brothers Circus. Originating in 1884 under the name “W.W.
Cole’s New Colossal Shows,” the circus is currently owned
and operated by Cole Brothers veteran John W. Pugh. The film presents
the circus through the eyes of Asheville's own Jamie Reel, age 31, as
he visits it for the first time. He gets the chance to join the show
by
working
alongside
performers and vendors. In the process, we meet a cast of people that
have chosen the traveling circus lifestyle. Through this journey, we
attempt to discover the real story behind one of America’s most
beloved pastimes. Enjoy the show. Director: Michael
Knox Producers: Ryan Haggerty, Martin Ramsey Executive
Producer: Stephen Ramsey Direcor of Photography: Ryan
Haggerty Featuring: Jamie Reel
SPECIAL
SCREENING: $8 Advance/$9 During Festival
Sunday, November 15
Fine Arts Theatre – Lower, 4 pm
THAT
EVENING SUN

Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility
by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back
to his country farm to live out his days in peace. Upon his return, he
discovers that his son has leased the farm to Abner's old enemy and his
white trash family. Not one to suffer fools or go down easy, Abner moves
into the old tenant shack on the property and declares that he won't
leave until the farm is returned to his possession. But Lonzo Choat,
the new tenant, has no intention to move out or give in to the old man's
demands. This sets up a ruthless grudge match between Abner and Choat,
each man right in his own eyes, each too stubborn to give an inch. Angered
by his son's betrayal, and haunted by recurring dreams of his long-dead
wife, Abner sets about his own path toward reclaiming his life. Lines
are drawn, threats are made, and the simmering tension under the Southern
sun erupts, inevitably, into savagery. Based on the short story
“
I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down” by William Gay. Written
for the Screen and Directed by: Scott Teems Produced
by: Laura
Smith, Terence Berry, Raymond Mckinnon, Walton Goggins Executive
Producers: Adrian Jay, Larsen Jay, Raul L. Celaya Co-Producer: Jeanine Rohn Director
of Photography: Rodney Taylor, A.S.C. Production Designer: Mara Lepere-Schloop
Edited by: Travis Sittard
Cast: Hal
Holbrook, Barlow Jacobs, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Preston, Raymond McKinnon,
Barry Corbin, Walton Goggins, Dually, Dixie Carter, Jacob Parkhurst,
Anthony Reynolds, Bruce McKinnon
CLOSING NIGHT FILM: $8 in Advance / $9 at Festival
Sunday, November 15
Fine Arts Theatre - Lower, 7pm
PRECIOUS

Based on the novel PUSH: A NOVEL BY SAPPHIRE. A vibrant, honest and resoundingly
hopeful film about the human capacity to grow and overcome. Set in Harlem
in 1987, it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones, a
sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would
want. She’s pregnant for the second time by her absent father;
at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry
woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of
chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an
awful secret: she can neither read nor write.
Precious may sometimes be
down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful,
curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable
sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion,
Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school,
Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of “alternative,” but
her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In
the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain, Precious
begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness
to light, love and self-determination.
An Official Selection at the
2009 Cannes Film Festival - Un Certain Regard, and winner of three
awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival
including the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in the U.S. Dramatic
Competition. The film was also the centerpiece of the 2009 Toronto International
Film Festival, where it received the festival’s 2009 Cadillac People’s
Choice Award. It is the only film ever to receive the Audience awards
at both Sundance and Toronto and has been selected as the 2009 New York
Film Festival Centerpiece.
Directed
by: Lee Daniels Screenplay
by: Geoffrey Fletcher Based on: Push: A Novel by Sapphire Produced
by: Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness,
Gary Magness Executive Producers: Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Lisa Cortés,
Tom Heller Co-Executive Producer: Simone Sheffield Co-Producer: Mark
G. Mathis Associate Producer: Asger Hussain Casting by: Billy Hopkins,
Jessica Kelly Director of Photography: Andrew Dunn, BSC Editor: Joe Klotz
Cast: Mo’Nique,
Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, Lenny Kravitz, Gabourey
Sidibe,
Stephanie Andujar, Chyna Layne, Amina Robinson,
Xosha Roquemore, Angelic Zambrana, Aunt Dot, Nealla Gordon, Grace Hightower,
Barrett Isaiah Mindell, Kimberly Russell, Bill Sage, Susan Taylor
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All tickets
are sold through the Pack Place Box Office. Tickets
are not sold at individual venues.
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Please allow time to purchase tickets and arrive at the screening
venue 15 minutes prior to show time.
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Seating is on
a first come-first serve basis. You must arrive
15 minutes before the screening begins. Please do not leave
empty seats in the middle of the row.
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Empty seats
will be forfeited five minutes prior to each program. No
late seating allowed.
Each
venue must be cleared after a film screening. Saving
seats between shows is not permitted.
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No children under the age of 6 will be admitted.
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Please be aware
that many films may not be suitable for those under the age of
18. Parental
discretion is advised.
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Cameras and
recording devices are not permitted. Please silence
all cell phones and pagers.

The Asheville Film Festival is produced by the
City of Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department
in conjunction with the Asheville Film Festival Committee.
Phone: (828) 259-5800 Fax: (828) 259-5606
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