Indie on Wheels – Charlotte Ideas Festival
- Sat, Apr 5
Run Time: 60 min.
1-2 pm on Saturday, April 5
at Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City
Address: 320 E 9th St, Charlotte, NC 28202
Tickets: Individuals currently need to purchase a Day Pass to attend the screening. A Day Pass is $50, and individuals can use code ‘IPH‘ to save 20%. Day Passes can be purchased with IPH’s code here: https://events.humanitix.com/the-2025-charlotte-ideas-festival-featuring-timelines-past-perspectives-future-insights/tickets?discountcode=IPH&discountcode=IPH
IPH is screening two short films at The Charlotte Center for Humanities & Civic Imagination’s Charlotte Ideas Festival at the Dubois Center in Uptown (part of UNCC’s campus): Patsy by director John Valley and producer Eric Alan Rousseau and Fallout by filmmaker Madison Hill.
*Both Eric and Madison will be there for a post-screening discussion.
PATSY is about an Asian American woman in her 30s going through a divorce triggered by a traumatic miscarriage trying to find love again, and learning how to say “no.” This film was presented at the 2024 Charlotte Film Festival.
As community members in a rural Appalachian town become sick, the source of the contagion is called into question. FALLOUT follows three individuals experiencing illnesses after exposure to environmental contamination from a nearby United States Army Ammunition Plant. Manufacturing propellants, explosives, and rockets for the Department of Defense, the facility is the largest polluter in Virginia emitting millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air, soil, and water each year. FALLOUT examines how the United States Military, in collusion with the private manufacturing industry, perpetuates the cycle of exploitation and environmental contamination that has inundated the Appalachian region for decades. The film incorporates digital footage as well as over 1200 feet of 16mm film processed with contaminants from the facility. This film was presented at the 2023 Charlotte Film Festival.