The Footcandle Film Festival is designed to bring unique, challenging and entertaining films to Western North Carolina every September. The festival is being held by the founders and members of the Footcandle Film Society, a 600-member group dedicated to screening and discussing films on a monthly basis.

Schedule of Events:

10:00 AM: Sunday Morning Shorts

I Am More Dangerous Dead: A poetic tribute to writer, poet and environmental activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was executed alongside eight other activists for opposing the environmental damage done in their oil-rich homeland, Ogoni.

A Good Day Will Come: Arash is a professional wrestler with dreams of representing his country and winning gold medals. The country is in turmoil and its people are suffering. Arash must decide between using his platform to stand up to tyranny, or put his head down and remain silent.

Rooster's Crow: Drowned in the chaos of a family reunion filled with testosterone and pig roast, Reynald will try to prove to his nephew, his family but mostly himself that he's still king.

Bite of Bénin: Adopted at the age of ten from her homeland of Bénin, West Africa, and raised in an abusive household in Connecticut, Chef Adé Carrena travels back home on a journey to reclaim her identity through food and represent what was taken away from her across the Diaspora.

12:30 PM: Red Whiteville and Blue

A group of millionaire political donors, unable to convince Congress to raise their taxes, turn to an unlikely ally: the working class residents of Whiteville, North Carolina, population 5,600.

3:00 PM: Breakup Season

A young man brings his girlfriend to his rural Oregon hometown to introduce her to his family only for things to go terribly wrong.