JOE
Joe, for Capricorn Films of Atlanta, Ga. Adapted from the novel by
Larry Brown. A Southern ex-con rescues an innocent, young boy from his
abusive, alcoholic father. Dirt Road Drama.
WHAT HOLLYWOOD DID TO THE SOUTH
A darkly comic, twelve-part series that examines the South's skewed perception
of itself via the mainstream media. Early topics include a reenactment of
the Virginia Reel sequence from Gone With the Wind by the Confederados of
Brazil, the recent unexpected popularity of atheism in the Bible Belt, and the
life and death of drive-in cinema.
Gary Hawkins has made six films, including the award-winning The Rough South of Larry Brown. He is a Sundance Fellow, a contributing writer to the Oxford American and Garden & Gun Magazines, and a winner of the Emmy Award. He teaches non-fiction filmmaking for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and Fiction Film Production for the Department of Film & Video, also at Duke University.