Self-Reliant Film on DVD

Southern Stories contains two acclaimed films by filmmaker Paul Harrill. Together, the two films have screened at over 40 major international festivals, including Sundance, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, and New Directors/New Films at the Museum of Modern Art, plus on over 50 public television stations.

In the Sundance award-winning Gina, An Actress, Age 29, a budding actress’s eagerness to take her first role gets her in over her head. Quick Feet, Soft Hands stars Greta Gerwig (Greenberg, Baghead) as the fiancee of a minor league ballplayer, whose slump threatens their hopes of making it to the big leagues.

Educational DVD Special Features include:
- Audio Commentaries by filmmaker Paul Harrill on the making of both films
- Original screenplays to both films for classroom use
- Slideshow of behind-the-scenes photos
- and more!

Reviews:
Paul Harrill is one of America’s finest and most sensitive directors of actors. In Harrill’s two remarkable short films…we hold our breaths living along with the characters, surfing the shifting currents of changing thoughts and feelings second by second, heartbeat by heartbeat.

— Ray Carney, Film Critic and Author

[Gina, An Actress, Age 29 is] a low-rent miracle.

—Ryan Mottesheard, indieWIRE

[Quick Feet, Soft Hands is] a marvelous American film…beautifully acted.

—Dennis Grunes, Film Critic, dennisgrunes.com

The casual execution and lingering impact of Harrill’s [Quick Feet, Soft Hands] seems to mark him the Alice Munro of dramatic shorts.

DVD Specifications:
UPC: 884501170192
Format: NTSC, Color, Stereo
Duration: 51 minutes total (excluding special features)
Region: Worldwide
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Rating: Suitable for ages 13+

Quick Feet, Soft Hands is a co-production of Lovell Films and the Independent Television Service and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Gina, An Actress, Age 29 is a Lovell Films/Next Wednesday Production with partial funding provided by the Aperture Film Grant.

Winner, Best Documentary – University Film & Video Association

For Memories’ Sake investigates the life and work of Angela Singer, a Southern homemaker who has taken an average of a dozen photos a day for the last 35 years, compiling a mysterious and strange archive of over 150,000 photographs of her daily life.

This documentary, funded by the Southern Humanities Media Fund, has screened at national and international festivals, including Dallas Video Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, and Saving Private Reels (Cork, Ireland).

Educational DVD Special Features include:
- Audio Commentary by director Ashley Maynor, producer Paul Harrill, and the film’s subject, Angela Singer
- Audio Commentary by Dr. David Wharton of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at Ole Miss
- Educational study and discussion guides for high school and college use
- Slideshows of over 1000 photos from the film
- and more!

Reviews:
This is the rare example of ethnographic filmmaking when the subject becomes the true author. [...] a work of power and integrity.

— Louis Massiah, Filmmaker and MacArthur Fellow

A moving generational portrait of life and love.

— James Parrish, James River Film Festival

A fascinating documentary.

—Harry Kollatz, Jr., Richmond Magazine

Maynor demonstrates an admirable mastery of the tools of documentary in a vivid and affectionate portrait…reminiscent of Alan Berliner’s Nobody’s Business.

— Dr. Bill Huie, professor, and former president,
University Film & Video Association

DVD Specifications:
UPC: 884501313469
Format: NTSC, Color, Stereo
Duration: 29 minutes (excluding special features)
Region: Worldwide
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: Suitable for ages 13+

For Memories’ Sake is a co-production of Preservation Project and Lovell Films with funds provided by the Southern Humanities Media Fund.