2022 Macon Film Festival

2022 Macon Film Festival Special Screening - It Ain't Over (director Sean Mullin)

An intimate portrait of a misunderstood American icon, this emotional and uplifting documentary about Yogi Berra takes us beyond the caricatures and "Yogisms," and into the heart of a sports legend whose unparalleled accomplishments on the baseball diamond were often overshadowed by his off-the-field persona.

The documentary features interviews with Berra's children, MLB legends (Derek Jeter, Joe Torre, Don Mattingly and more), Billy Crystal, Bob Costas and others. This will be the opening night film of the festival and is a free event. Space is limited.

Fulldome Immersive Showcase - Enjoy a night of exploring art galleries, gyroscope experiences, open bar, food and immersive special screenings!

LABYRINTH

• Director/Project Creator: Sergey Prokofyev
• TRT: 16:25
• Country: Germany
• Synopsis: In a labyrinth, we fall under the visual impact of a particular configuration of space, which it is impossible to get out of, being stuck in the disorientation affect. We switch to a subjective perception of life.

DISSOLVE

• Director/Project Creator: Tatsuru Arai
• TRT: 8:00
• Country: Germany / Japan
• Synopsis: This work focuses on the human ability to perceive “Dissolve” from an audio and visual sense. Human beings can evoke memories and physical phenomena through different visual and auditory stimulation. As an example, it is hypothesized that we recognize a Dissolve from the energy of the petals collapsing. The video shows the direction of interpretation by hyper-serial music, A.I. music and classical music.

SWARM

• Director/Project Creator: Maarten Isaäk de Heer
• TRT: 14:00
• Country: Germany
• Synopsis: Swarming is a behavioral phenomenon to survive, but more than often, it is a prelude for extinction. Swarm offers an epic bird's eye's view over landscapes of three dimensional photocollages that show a part of Europe after climate change.

LOCKDOWN DREAMSCAPE 360°

• Director/Project Creator: Nicolas Gebbe
• TRT: 6:40
• Country:  Germany
• Synopsis: When spending a lot of time at home in isolation, the walls begin to move. The sense of time fades, the days pass quietly, everything seems to repeat itself endlessly. Spaces, conversations, visual impressions and sounds merge and make everything seem like a long dream.

EON

• Director/Project Creator: Alejandro Casales
• TRT: 5:33
• Country: Mexico / United States
• Synopsis: During the pandemic due by COVID 19, we suffer their effects, but we decide to realize a fulldome movie with it. We write a little poem to engage our feelings with the spur of the moment:
  
  Many days have passed, many people have died.
  The words are gone, only points and lines remain in my life.
  Now I hope to live a little, although the uncertainty impedes me.
  It does not matter that the COVID persecutes me and its evil friend forbids me.

AYAHUASCA - KOSMIK JOURNEY DOME EXPERIENCE 

• Director/Project Creator: Jan Kounen
• TRT: 18:00
• Country: France, Luxembourg
• Synopsis: A visionary experience through the realms of the medicinal plants, led by indigenous Shipibo traditional healer in the amazon rainforest.

2022 Macon Film Festival Special Screening - Still Working 9 to 5 (directors Camille Hardman & Gary Lane)

When the highest-grossing comedy, '9 to 5,' starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on the cinema screens in 1980, the laughs hid a serious message about women in the office. 'Still Working 9 to 5' documentary explores why workplace inequality 40 years later was never a laughing matter.

Directors Gary Lane and Camille Hardman along with executive producer Larry Lane will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.

To learn more about the film visit: https://stillworking9to5.com/

2022 Macon Film Festival Special Screening - CONDUCTING LIFE (director Diane Moore)

In the rarified world of classical music, the road to success is a daunting one. Especially for young conductors. CONDUCTING LIFE follows the improbable journey of Roderick Cox from his childhood in Macon, Georgia into the classical music world, as he tirelessly pursues his dream — to secure a top position with a major orchestra. Roderick’s story is about the passion, sacrifice, and courage it takes to succeed in an elusive profession with limited opportunities.

Filmed over seven years, Diane Moore's intimate portrait captures the highs and lows of award-winning conductor Roderick Cox’s quest to achieve mastery in a discipline that has traditionally overlooked artists of color.

The film's subject Roderick Cox will be in attendance at the film's screening. To learn more about the film visit: https://conductinglife.com/