Free Screening of Ballast

 

ImageNation Film Festival, Alluvial Film Company,  and the Riverside Theatre present A FREE Community Screening of    BALLAST Winner of Best Director & Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival 7pm, Thursday, September 25th  The Riverside Theatre at The Riverside Church 91 Claremont Ave at 120th Street New York, NY Take the 1 or 9 to 116th Street Click here to rsvp or call 212-340-1874

 

“A startingly assured, pitch-perfect first feature.” - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times “A journey of discovery that forces us to cast off the clichés of race, poverty and existence in the Deep South.”  - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly   SYNOPSIS A single mother and her troubled 12-year-old son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. A suicide thrusts them into a world of an emotionally devastated – and estranged relative – awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding conflict. With the boy’s future hanging in the balance, the two adults must reckon with the past and search for a new way forward.    Winner – ’08 Sundance Film Festival, Dramatic Directing Award Winner – ’08 Sundance Film Festival, Excellence in Cinematography Award Winner – ’08 Independent Film Festival Boston – Grand Jury Prize Winner – ’08 San Francisco International Film Festival- Fipresci Prize Winner – ’08 Buenos Aires Int’l Film Festival – Fipresci & Directing Award   OPENS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1st at THE FILM FORUM

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