Closing Night Film: White Knight

20 Aug, 2011 6:29 pm by Wendi in Films Featured

Sunday, August 21st 4:30-6:30pm

<iframe width=”560″ height=”345″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/IyqIroSjpBY” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>Introduced and moderated by comedian Black Mike.

Filmmaker Jesse Baget and Actors Hector Jimenez, Kevin Farley and Olga Segura in attendance for White Knight.
Filmmaker Gary Sugarman in attendance for The Heist.

Leroy Lowe (Tom Sizemore), grand dragon of the Texas Ku Klux Klan confronts everything he’s been taught to hate when he’s sentenced to three years of hard labor on a prison work farm, where Warden Merville (Stacy Keach), dead set on rehabilitating Leroy, chooses Emilio (Hector Jimenez), a Hispanic field worker imprisoned for fighting for labor rights, to be his cellmate.

Leroy, confined in a small cell with the “enemy,” far from the KKK comrades who deserted him, finds the chatty Emilio slowly chipping away at his anger and prejudice.

His weekly rehabilitation meetings with the warden, barely tolerable as the man drones on about farm labor and field crops, take on a different meaning when Madalena (Olga Segura), a beautiful Mexican maid is hired to clean the warden’s office. An unconventional love story develops that opens Leroy’s eyes to the possibility of a different life. And a man who was a born and bred racist finds himself heading down a path to redemption. Mature content.

For more information on the film, visit the website at: http://www.whiteknightfilm.com/

Showing with the short film “Lobster”
A young couple ponders the sentience of their dinner in the short comedy, LOBSTER. At a stalemate and with his parents minutes away, Bo and Raquel turn to an unusual best friend to determine the fate of their captive crustacean.

Lobster was recently selected for the Brown Filmmakers Showcase at Anthology Film Archives in New York City. Starring Chad Brummett and Emelie O’Hara, Lobster is 3-minutes of deadpan hilarity.

THE HEIST: Three yahoos are out to rob a bank, but these three guys haven’t got a clue about proper robbing etiquette.