The fourth week of the SASOD Film Festival, Painting the Spectrum 4’ begins on Monday with the compelling drama The Gymnast.
It is a story about two women who team up for aerial art show in Las Vegas. According to SASOD, The Gymnast is a visually compelling film that challenges notions of both ability and identity and is foremost a story about hope and taking the necessary risks to fully become yourself. It stars Dreya Weber stars as a former top gymnast who discovers love and a new life path when she teams up with a dancer (played by former LA Lakers cheerleader Addie Yungmee).
On Tuesday, the comedy Dirty Laundry is screened. It tells the story of Sheldon who returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia after ten years. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated, mean-spirited, insulting, and inflexible, has sent a ten-year-old boy who says he’s Sheldon’s son up to see Sheldon. Old arguments flare up – between mother and son and between brothers. Sheldon wants no part of fatherhood or family. Then, someone else from New York shows up at Evelyn’s door, bringing a new set of challenges.
In the final film, Curiosity of Chance, an already ‘out’ and eccentric teenager recruits a bizarre circle of friends made up of two oddball outcasts, a straight jock he has a crush on and a drag queen, to help him bring down the homophobic bully threatening his would-be peaceful, high-school existence. This film will be screened on Wednesday.
As usual, all films start at 7 pm at the Sidewalk Café in Middle Street and admission is free.
