Decatur Shorts Docs Film Festival Screening - Night 3

308 Clairemont Ave.,Decatur GA 30030

03 May, 2022

Description

The Decatur Short Docs Festival showcases short documentaries about people and places in our community and the South. COVID-19 safety protocols in place. Please Read The Information at the Bootom of the Description. We have also made adjustments to allow attendees to register up to TWO addtiaional guests. It will be the registarnts responsibility to make sure the guests know about the COVID protocols and that they will have proof of vacciantion on hand to present at the venue. Join us for the Tuesday night in-person screening of the Decatur Short Docs Festival, which showcases five short documentaries: Michael Murrell: Art, Nature and Catawampus, The Environmental Justice Movement in Atlanta’s Westside [excerpt], Finding the Flint, River Rats and Junior Leaguers: The Story Behind the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, and The Old Man’s Game. A talkback will follow. This event is free and open to the public, but registration on Eventbrite is required. COVID-19 safety protocols and requirements will be in place. SCROLL FOR DETAILS. About the Films: The Tuesday night screening of the Decatur Short Docs Festival showcases five short documentaries: Michael Murrell: Art, Nature and Catawampus. For five decades, sculptor Michael Murrell has made work that explores our human relationship with nature. He is drawn to the spiritual qualities in the artworks and utilitarian objects of other cultures, specifically Oceanic, African, and Native American, an ethnographic interest he combines with an accumulation of personal experience to inform much of his long career. With over 200 exhibitions of his work, Murrell has chosen to retain most of it so that it can be displayed to the public in a former cotton mill in the north Georgia foothills. [Directed by Hal Jacobs, 2021, 24 min.] The Environmental Justice Movement in Atlanta’s Westside[excerpt]. Environmental historian Will Bryan describes Atlanta's legacy of water problems and how the environmental justice movement started in West Atlanta in the early 1900s. His site visits starts with the Gulch in downtown Atlanta and ends on the Proctor Creek Greenway. [Directed by Hal Jacobs, 2020, 6:00 min.] Finding the Flint. Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is best known for a few things:It’s the world’s busiest airport, seeing over 100,000,000 passengers every year, and it’s massive, employing over 60,000 people and making it Georgia’s largest employer. What travelers and Georgia residents probably don't know is that the airport is also home to a more natural defining feature: the headwaters of Georgia’s Flint River, which flow into a concrete culvert just north of the airport. [Directed by J.D. Belcher, 2021, 8 min.] River Rats and Junior Leaguers: The Story Behind the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Hear the story about how a coalition of river rats, Junior Leaguers, conservationists, activists, government officials and others, including a President, saved the land along the river from raging development in the 1970s. [Directed by Hal Jacobs, 2022, 7 min.] The Old Man’s Game. For over 25 years, a group of hoopsters have met up in a Atlanta high school gym for pickup basketball. As they get older, the game stays the same age. [Directed by Hal Jacobs, 2020, 7 min.] About the Festival: Hal Jacobs is a documentary filmmaker in Decatur, Ga. He began making short documentaries after many years of writing, editing and publishing. He produces work through his company, HJacobs Creative, and knows firsthand the challenges that filmmakers face in sharing their work with live audiences. SPONSORS: This year the Decatur Short Docs Film Festival is part of the Decatur Arts Festival. Georgia Center for the Book , DeKalb County Public Library, HJacobsCreative, First Baptist Church Decatur. LOCATION: First Baptist Church Decatur-Carreker Hall SAFETY PROTOCOLS: We are committed to a safe environment for all writers, attendees, staff, and volunteers. Following CDC guidelines and adhering to the protocols of the First Baptist Church of Decatur, we are taking the following steps for safety during this program: -Masks: Face masks must be worn properly over the nose and the mouth at all times on the entire church property, including outdoors. -Social Distancing: Attendance indoors is capped at less than 50% of capacity, with alternating rows left vacant. -Vaccines: Proof of completed COVID-19 vaccination (CDC COVID-19 Vaccination Record Card or image of the card) is required for anyone entering the church. In the rare event of a misplaced COVID-19 card, please provide proof of a negative test taken no more than 72 hours before the event and be prepared to sign a vaccine verification statement.