Global Education Center is excited to be a Screening Partner of the 2024-2025 Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, a film series that brings the best of new independent film to communities across the South. The Circuit takes the audience away from their televisions, computers, tablets and phones to connect them with independent filmmakers – live! Southern Circuit transforms watching film from a solitary experience into a communal one. Global Education Center and other Southern Circuit partners have chosen a diverse array of films that will provide audiences with the opportunity to meet filmmakers and learn about the art of film making; and encourage community engagement using film as a conduit for discussions about social and community issues.
THIS SEASON OF SOUTHERN CIRCUIT DOCUMENTARY FILMS IS MADE POSSIBLE BY SOUTH ARTS, a regional affiliate of National Endowment for the Arts. A list of the films is below - stay tuned for more details on each screening!
We also have additional films that are being screened, which are listed below as well. All films have either a community meal or a reception included as well as a post-film discussion by filmmakers or educators.
FILMS SELECTED FOR 2024-2025 SEASON - Both Southern Circuit and others - All films will include post-film dialogue with filmmaker, director, or cast member and community meal
Family Tree - Friday, September 6 @ 7:30 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Gather - Saturday, October 12 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Santos: Skin to Skin - Saturday, October 19 @ 4:00 pm at Darkhorse Theater - film trailer here
City of a Million Dreams - Saturday, November 16 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
O Pioneer - Saturday, February 15 @ 4:30 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
This World Is Not My Own - Saturday, March 15 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
In the Light of Reverence - Saturday, March 29 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Where the Butterflies Go - Saturday, April 12 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Sugarcane - Saturday, April 26 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Acts of Reparation - Saturday, May 17 @ 4:00 pm at Global Education Center - film trailer here
Where the Butterflies Go - A comedic nature documentary written by Fraser Jones
After quitting his job and getting dumped, filmmaker and nature enthusiast Fraser Jones decides to spend all his money on a camera and camper van to follow the miraculous migration of the Monarch Butterfly across North America with high hopes of hosting the next great children’s nature show. In a desperate attempt to host a show, this fumbling filmmaker travels 3,000 miles asking North Americans how to save the endangered monarch butterfly, and ourselves, from extinction.
If you love butterflies, especially the Monarch Butterfly, and care about biodiversity, then this just might be the film for YOU!
We will be joined by the filmmaker for a post-film dialogue and a community meal.
Fraser Jones (Director, Producer, Host)
Fraser Jones is a nonfiction filmmaker hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. After studying film at NYU, he directed a comedy feature film called Your Ride Is Here, wrote a show for Nickelodeon, went to clown school, and made a few documentaries about the environment. His work has earned him a Vimeo Staff Pick, The Redford Center Grant, The Spiritual Ecology Fellowship, PBS’ Reel South Award, and numerous awards at international film festivals. Fraser aims to continue combining nonfiction filmmaking and humor in hopes of making people feel less alone.
Where the Butterflies Go is the last film in this season's Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, a project of South Arts in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts.
After quitting his job and getting dumped, filmmaker and nature enthusiast Fraser Jones decides to spend all his money on a camera and camper van to follow the miraculous migration of the Monarch Butterfly across North America with high hopes of hosting the next great children’s nature show. In a desperate attempt to host a show, this fumbling filmmaker travels 3,000 miles asking North Americans how to save the endangered monarch butterfly, and ourselves, from extinction.
If you love butterflies, especially the Monarch Butterfly, and care about biodiversity, then this just might be the film for YOU!
We will be joined by the filmmaker for a post-film dialogue and a community meal.
Fraser Jones (Director, Producer, Host)
Fraser Jones is a nonfiction filmmaker hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. After studying film at NYU, he directed a comedy feature film called Your Ride Is Here, wrote a show for Nickelodeon, went to clown school, and made a few documentaries about the environment. His work has earned him a Vimeo Staff Pick, The Redford Center Grant, The Spiritual Ecology Fellowship, PBS’ Reel South Award, and numerous awards at international film festivals. Fraser aims to continue combining nonfiction filmmaking and humor in hopes of making people feel less alone.
Where the Butterflies Go is the last film in this season's Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers, a project of South Arts in partnership with National Endowment for the Arts.
SUGARCANE is a stunning tribute to the resilience of Native people and their way of life. In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these segregated boarding schools was brought to light, sparking a national outcry against a system designed to destroy Indigenous communities.
SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary, and has since garnered over a dozen awards. It was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films.
SUGARCANE, the debut feature documentary from Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie, is an epic cinematic portrait of a community during a moment of international reckoning. It premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Directing Award: U.S. Documentary, and has since garnered over a dozen awards. It was acquired by National Geographic Documentary Films.
Acts of Reparation follows two friends as they explore what reparations means to them. Selina, who is Black, and Macky, who is white, have been friends and filmmaking partners for 25 years. Genealogy nerds, they travel south to reclaim and reckon with their roots. In the process they move from awkward outsiders toward belonging to broad kin networks who come along for the ride.
From kitchen tables to porches, lost cemeteries to discovered diaries, their journeys lead to unexpected opportunities that transform their friendship, families and communities. In Monroe, Louisiana, Selina gathers stories from a sisterhood of her great aunties who together sleuth to uncover the buried tales of their ancestors. In Penfield, Georgia, Macky challenges generations of his kin to dismantle privilege they inherited from enslavers and support Black leaders nearby. In Acts of Reparation, we see everyday Americans become the change they want to see in the world. Film by Selina Lewis Davidson & Macky Alston
From kitchen tables to porches, lost cemeteries to discovered diaries, their journeys lead to unexpected opportunities that transform their friendship, families and communities. In Monroe, Louisiana, Selina gathers stories from a sisterhood of her great aunties who together sleuth to uncover the buried tales of their ancestors. In Penfield, Georgia, Macky challenges generations of his kin to dismantle privilege they inherited from enslavers and support Black leaders nearby. In Acts of Reparation, we see everyday Americans become the change they want to see in the world. Film by Selina Lewis Davidson & Macky Alston
Films from 2023 and 2024 seasons
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LocationGlobal Education Center
4822 Charlotte Ave. Nashville, TN 37209 Most events will be held at Global Education Center. Street parking is available as well as across the street at Richland Park. We are also on the #10 bus line, with a stop directly in front of our main building and #50 bus, with a stop two blocks away. For any help with transportation or parking, please email [email protected] for more information. |
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This program is made possible with support from South Arts, an affiliate of the National Endowment of the Arts, in partnership with Metro Nashville Arts Commission, Tennessee Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts.
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