Silver Images Film Festival
A half-hour 1998 film by Ellen Walters about a North Carolina firehouse that’s been converted into a restaurant and the women who sing gospel music there. (Atlas Senior Center, 1:00)
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On his last day of work a young ambulance driver is assigned to take a 70-year-old woman on a six-hour drive to her birthday party. Australian filmmaker Bill Bennett (Kiss or Kill) directed this 1994 feature; with Simon Bossell and Ruth Cracknell. To be shown by video projection. (Saint Xavier Univ. McGuire Hall, 7:00)
See listing for Sunday, April 18. To be shown by video projection. (Saint Xavier Univ. McGuire Hall, 2:00)
Lori Mass Vidlak directed this hour-long 1997 documentary about children being raised by grandparents. On the same program, Why?, Old Woman Poem, and Living Forever, an animated short by Peter Reynolds and Gary Goldberger Tickets are $5. (College of Lake County Southlake Educational Center, 9:30 am)
The Firehouse Women
The Mountains Will Remember
