2016 Covey Film Festival Special Publication by The Townie

benefiting the thomasville community resource center

benefitting the Thomasville Community Resource Center

“God help us to not raise a new generation of children/With high intelligence quotients and low caring and compassion quotients/With sharp competitive edges but dull cooperative instincts/With highly developed computer skills but poorly developed consciences/With a gigantic commitment to the big ‘I’ but little responsibility to the bigger ‘we’/With mounds of disconnected information without a moral context to determine its worth/With more and more knowledge and less and less imagination and appreciation for the magic of life that cannot be quantified or computerized/With more and more worldliness and less and less wonder and awe for the sacred and everyday miracles of life. God help us to raise children who care.” – Marian Wright Edelman One easy way to prepare children for life is to always ask them one simple question: What have you learned? Learning isn’t limited to classrooms. We have opportunities to learn all around us, but our children have to be taught to look for learning everywhere - they may not develop this skill naturally. Watching age appropriate films can be a fun activity in which children and adolescents can use their senses of imagination and fantasy while learning. Thomasville Community Resource Center continues to support and enhance the educational, spiritual and physical well-being of all people of Thomas County and the surrounding area, through educational, health and family supportive services. We recognize that learning happens everywhere for the youth we serve. The Covey Film Festival is an experiential learning event for our students, families, community and region. Just like in the films we showcase, our students are able to appreciate the fact that dreams can come true. The Covey Film Festival is an exciting, entertaining vehicle for inspiring community education and conversation, funding for TCRC youth programs and an opportunity to showcase Thomasville and the Red Hills region. An unlimited film pass for a family of four is just $100 and can be purchased at coveyfilmfestival.com. We look forward to seeing you on October 13 – 29! Lisa Billups, Executive Director

TCRC STAFF Lisa Billups Executive Director Dana Sharp Finance Manager Felicia Gabriel Outreach Manager Andra Williams Facilities Manager JaMiracle Glaze Human Resources Administrative Assistant LaTonya Williams-White Program Director Cortney O’Neal Program Manager BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sharon Maxwell Ferguson Kathy Vignos Bill Settles Almeda Simpson Lisa Williams Joyce Ingram Debra L. Gresham, Ph.D. Josephine L. Mullins Ellery Sedgwick, Ph.D. Terri Vismale-Morris Leta Ward-Dawson Nadia Watts

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TOWNIE Quick Q + A with Jane Fonda TCRC Founder + Covey Honorary Chair Oscar Winning actress, Star of Netflix series Grace + Frankie

What is your Thomasville connection and how did you get involved in what became the Covey Film Festival and the Thomasville Community Resource Center? I was married to Ted Turner

and we visited Bill Flowers in Thomasville to go quail hunting. I became good friends with his daughters Daphne and Tali Flowers. I had been looking for the right place to create a community Center that focused on children and teens and, with input from Daphne and others, decided that Thomasville was the place. The need was and is great and there are good people in the community who would support such an effort. That is how the Thomasville Community Resource Center began.

What draws you to Thomasville and the Red Hills region? Are there any restaurants, shops or local products here that you love? Well, the

roses, the small town rhythms, the people. I did a lot of shopping for antiques there.

What do you enjoy most about your life at the moment? Going to bed! We often work 15-16

hour days on Grace & Frankie and I’m 78 years old. I crave my sleep. We’re on our 11th episode of season three. Two and a half more episodes to go. Thank heaven we laugh a lot on the set.

What one piece of advice would you give students— filmmakers and actors alike— who aspire to head to Hollywood? Be sure it’s your

passion because it’s a hard, very competitive world out here and most people don’t make it. Get a good education first and know as much about the world as you can. That will provide perspective, context and inspiration.

You’re a champion of many causes and nonprofits. Why is the mission of Thomasville Community Resource Center and the services it provides to underprivileged children and families important to you? It’s an attempt to

level the playing field. Middle class families are able to provide their children with after school activities, tutoring, computer skills, art and drama. Disenfranchised children need these things as well. That’s what TCRC does.

Why did/do you think that a film festival in a town like Thomasville would/continues to be a good fit for raising funds to benefit a children’s resource center? The Covey Film Festival was

the brainchild of Sharon Maxwell Ferguson who was on the TCRC board for a number of years and then became chair. With her background in social work, she brought the needed organizational skills to the Job. I’m not sure where she got the idea for the festival but clearly it was inspired.*

*Note: The brainstorm for The Covey Film Festival came from Doby Flowers and Didi Hoffman, as well as myself, during coffee one morning at Grassroots. We were trying to identify a signature fundraising event that was not currently being done in Thomasville. We all felt that considering Jane Fonda was a founder of TCRC, it was a natural fit to start a film festival. Jane remains an active presence in the festival, frequently recommending films to us from the festivals she attends; she is also an honorary chair. – Sharon Maxwell Ferguson is President of the TCRC Board of Directors and chairs its Covey Film Festival Committee.

Celeste + Panel Discussion Filmmaker Brad Wheeler will facilitate a discussion on film production in the Thomasville community. Special guests invited. Sponsored by Downtown Thomasville.

Location: Trinity Church 325 Weast Jackson St; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 12 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. RSVP to the Main Street Office at 229-227-7020

Nina Simone is a complex and fascinating woman, known as the “High Priestess of Soul.” This film is a revealing look at her life, using concert and interview footage from the 1950s-1980s.

Location: Victoria Place Thomasville, Georgia Time: TBA Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

Zarafa The plot of this animated film depicts a grandfather telling his grandchildren the story of Maki, a young boy who escapes from slave traders, befriends a giraffe, crosses a desert and meets a pirate on a trip who takes him from Africa to Paris.

Location: Paradise Park 403 South Broad St; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7:30 PM Admission: Free and open to the public

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Location: Thomas County Public Library 201 North Madison St; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 1:00 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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I’ll Be ME This is a film produced by Glen Campbell and his family during a cross country tour to announce Glen’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and in so doing, documenting the progression of the disease.

Location: Archbold Memorial Hospital Williams Auditorium 915 Gordon Ave; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

Students act like little Picassos while painting

Racing Extinction Racing Extinction is a documentary about the ongoing anthropogenic mass extinction of species and the efforts from scientists, activists and journalists to document it by Oscarwinning director Louie Psihoyos, who directed the documentary The Cove (2009). The film deals with several examples of the overarching theme of the Anthropocene Extinction, in that the spread of homo sapiens has caused the greatest mass extinction since the KT event 66 million years ago, including global warming and poaching, and the efforts of scientists, photographers and volunteers to protect endangered species. The film implicates overpopulation, globalization and animal agriculture as leading causes of extinction.

Location: Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy 13093 Henry Beadel Dr; Tallahassee, Florida Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID. *Please note that films and schedule are subject to change. Find the most recent info at www.coveyfilmfestival.com.

Morris From America This film revolves around a 13-year old African-American boy named Morris and the relationship he has with his father as they become new residents of a city in Germany. The film’s producer is a Florida State University graduate.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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Mustang This is an internationally awardwinning film set in a remote Turkish village that depicts the lives of five orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up as females in a conservative society.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

Special Event: Film Showcase An afternoon matinee featuring the work of graduate students in filmmaking at Florida State University. This is a multi-film event, featuring the short works of students in the program.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 3 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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This film charts the journey of a young woman’s transformation. Set in the world of New York publishing, a young book editor is forced to confront a troubling chapter from her past. Written and directed by Marya Cohn— cousin of Thomasville’s Julia Singletary.

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FORGOTTEN COAST: Return to Wild Florida Following in the footsteps of a wandering Florida bear, three friends leave civilization and become immersed in a vast and unexplored wildlife corridor, stretching from the Everglades to the Florida - Alabama border. Mallory Dimmitt will be present as one of the expedition leaders to discuss the film. Sponsored by Four Oaks Plantation.

Location: Brookwood School 301 Cardinal Ridge Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 6 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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SPOTLIGHT When the Boston Globe’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

Location: All Saints Episcopal Church 443 South Hansell St; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

THS football shares a fun day with the kids

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 8 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, some 100 women fiercely cling to their ancestral homeland inside the “exclusion zone.” *Double Feature with Sonita.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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Sonita A film about a female rapper in conservative Iran, in contrast to the shifting conditions for women, through the lens of an artist who is defining the next generation. *Double Feature with Babushkas of Chernobyl.

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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise This film celebrates Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words from over the years with rare and intimate archvial photographs and videos. Presented by the Thomas University Social Work Division.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 12:30 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople A film from New Zealand, in which a defiant young city boy is sent to live in the country with foster parents. When his foster mother passes away, the boy runs away into the bush with his uncle in pursuit. A national manhunt ensues and the two have to get over their differences to survive.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

The Fundamentals of Caring From an Emmy award-winning director, this film addresses the relationship between a caregiver and a young disabled man who hit the road on a trip to the western states, collecting people along the way—including Dot (Selena Gomez) and Peaches (Thomasville’s Megan Ferguson). Director Rob Burnett will be in attendance, to give remarks following the film, along with Megan Ferguson.

Location: Thomas University Flowers Auditorium 1501 Millpond Rd; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

The Millionaires’ Unit

This documentary is the story of a privileged group of Yale students who formed a private militia in preparation for America’s entry into WWI. They became the founding squadron of the United States Naval Air Reserve. Many of these young men came from families who owned hunting plantations in the Thomasville and Tallahassee areas and who started the Georgia-Florida Field Trials. Harry and Michael Davison, the film’s producers, will speak following the screening. Location: Thomasville Municipal Auditorium 144 Jackson St; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 7 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door. Students free with ID.

Equine Film Festival All day on the 29, Covey will screen a series of films about the use of horses in therapy, in collaboration with Hands & Hearts for Horses. Lisa Dierson, organizer of the Equus Film Festival based in Chicago, will attend and help facilitate. Sponsored by Tampa Bay Downs.

Location: The Biscuit Company Event Center 219 Oak Street; Thomasville, Georgia Time: 10 AM - 5 PM Admission: Free with CFF Passes and Sponsor Passes. $7 pass/$10 door for each block of films. Students free with ID.

Fireside Chat with Greg Kinnear Hosted by Julie and Rob Moran. Open to select sponsors and underwriters only. It’s not too late to sponsor or become a festival underwriter! Visit coveyfilmfestival. com for more information!

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF MISSION To empower the youth and Chair familiesDebra of Thomas counties through Dr. Sharon Maxwell-Ferguson, GreshamCounty and surrounding Lisa Billups, Executive Director alternative communitybased programs built a foundation of Prevention, Education, and Kathy Vignos, Vice-Chair ElleryonSedgwick Mereta Walker, Director ofPreparation. Finance and Administration Tim Klocko, Treasurer Josephine Mullins Andra Williams, Facilities and Operations Manager Almeda Sampson, Secretary Lisa Williams GUIDING PRINCIPLES Tameka Smith, Bright from the Start Program Manager Didi Hoffman TCRC’s mission is guided Matt Willey by the following principles: Strengthen Community and LaTonya Williams, 21st CCLC Program Manager Rev. ArthurParent Jones IIIPartnerships; Provide Terri Vismale-Morris a Safe Haven; Provide Opportunities for Life Long Learning; Bill Settles Shannon Brooks, Outreach Program Manager Fonda, Emeritus Achieve Jane Holistic Wellness; Empowerment Through Education

WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE SAYING... WHAT THE CHILDREN ARE SAYING... 86% 86% 93% 93% 88 My behavior 88%% My behavior

The program helps me The program complete and turnhelps in me complete and turn in my homework. my homework.

WHAT THE PARENTS ARE SAYING... WHAT THE PARENTS ARE SAYING...

98% 98% The program helps my The program my child completehelps and turn child complete and turn in their homework. in their homework.

has improved. has improved. I like this program. I like this program.

87% 87%

My child’s Mybehavior child’s has behavior has improved. improved.

99% 99% As a parent, I am As satisfied a parent, with I am this satisfied with this program. program.

PROGRAM GOALS AND OBJECTIVES ACHIEVEMENTS 15% of regularly participating students with a Body Mass Index 15 will outside of theEnrolled “healthy” range improve their BMI. in students

ourNOT new MET4 year old but progressing toward goal. classroom This is reflective of a national problem of childhood obesity.

75% of students will participate in health andIncreased wellness activities.

volunteers/interns NOT MET from 3 to 10 working but progressing toward goal. Again, this community is struggling with youth along with most communities with

65% of students will participate in character building activities that will increase knowledge Increased BFTS in but not limited to teamwork, (Varnedoe Street) sportsmanship, discipline, goal setting, social growth, communications, summer enrollment critical thinking, social skills, life skills, byand25% health, violence.

poor dietary habits of children.

40% of parents of regularly participating students Purchased used (attending at least 30 operational days) will participate in at least wheelchair accessible one program wide event annually.

15% of regularly participating parents Technology will participate as supporters in 21st CCLC event based activities. improvements 20 Google Chromebooks and donated laptops

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NOT MET Kindle Readers Our goal20specified parents but in reality other family Time members participated Installed Kangaroo Attendace Tracking in family events. have equipment a new volunteer Received grant forWe robotics who is targeting parental involvement.

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SITESFOR FORAFTER AFTERSCHOOL SCHOOL PROGRAMS PROGRAMS SITES Thomas County Middle School Avg Attendance 25 Grades 5th-8th

Scott Elementary School Avg Attendance 39 Grades K-5th

Northside Elementary Grades K-5th

Harper Elementary Grades K-5th

Garrison Pilcher Elementary Avg Attendance 17 Grades 1st-2nd

Eastside Elementary Grades K-5th

Avg Attendance 23 Grades 3rd-4th

Vashti Center

Varnedoe Street Summer Program and Afterschool

Parent ParentChild Child Home Program Home Program

The PCHP, an early childhood program, strives The PCHP works with parents in-home to to prepare children for academic success provide early literacy for children ages 1and to 3 strengthen families through intensive home in preparation for school. Home visitors use visiting. PCHPto works withparents parents books The and toys model for and in-home to provide literacy for and children children reading,early conversation, play ages 1 to 3 in that preparation for school. activities stimulate quality verbal interaction & age-appropriate developmental Twice weekly, 30-minute homelasts visitsforare23 expectations. The program designed weeks.to stimulate the parent-child verbal interaction, reading, and educational play critical to early childhood brain development. Each week the trained home visitors bring a new book or educational toy that remains with the families permanently. Home visitors REDESIGNED use theEbook or toy to model for parents and Community children reading, conversation,Clinic and play Working in collaboration with multiple activities that stimulate quality verbal community agencies and Morehouse College interaction & age-appropriate developmental of Medicine we will complete a community expectations. needs assessment. Based on the identified chronic we will beginintoGeorgia. recruit TCRC is the needs only licensed program volunteers to helprecognized with chronicprogram issues in the PCHP is a nationally that community.best-practices Anticipate clinic re-opening emphasizes for preparing under a community basedtheir model mid 2016. pre-school children and parents for successful entry into school as well as teaching parents how best to interact with their young children.

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After School/ BFTS After School/ Summer Program Summer Program

Our program serves 75+ children ages 4-12 Our Varnedoe Street program serves 75+ during theages summer the the school year. The children 4-12and during summer and program includes enrichment (poetry, dance, the school year. The program includes art, and music), assistance, enrichment (Dance,homework Art, Basketball, and academic/testing support, and transportation Music), homework assistance, academic from school. testing support, and transportation from school. We are licensed by Bright from the We areGeorgia’s licensedDepartment by Bright offrom Start: Earlythe CareStart: and Georgia’s Care and Learning. Department The hours ofof Early operation are Learning. Monday-Friday, 3 - 6 PM. Summer and school break hours are 7:30 AM to 5:30 PM. The hours of provided. operation are Monday- Friday, Meal/snacks 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Summer hours are 7:30 AM to 5:30NEW PM. Meal/snacks DFCS are provided.

Program Some of Afterschool our students participate in the

ProgramProgram serves ofchildren in Georgia out of Ballet home Step-Up the South placement withthey emphasis on grandparents Program where are exposed to formal raising young children. of operation are ballet classes andHoursparticipate in the same as the After School/Summer performances. Program. The program will serve 15 students at TCRC during the school year and summer. We will work in partnership with the Vashti Center and offer summer enrichment to 40 students at Vashti.

21st Century Century After After 21st School/Summer Program Program D School/Summer

A 32-week after school program that is free A 32-week after school program that is free to students to students who who are are enrolled enrolled inin a aschool, low striving to improve performance living performing school and/or livingand/or in high in high poverty. poverty. The program serves 275+ students at 9 different locations in Thomas and Grady The program serves includes 250+ students at 9 County. The program enrichment different locations in Thomas and Grady (Poetry, Dance, Art, and Music), homework Counties. The programtesting/support, includes enrichment assitance, academic and (poetry, dance,home. art, The and hours music), homework transportation of operation assistance, vary at eachacademic/testing site and a meal support, or snack and is transportation home. provided. The hours of operation vary at each site and a meal orNEW snack isCharacter provided.

Counts We also participateIntiative in the “back-pack” food We will provide weekly character assistance program which education provides a and invite Thomasville Rotarians to speak backpack of food to eligible students fortouse students Six Pillars of alleviate over the monthly weekendonintheorder to help Character: Trustworthiness, Respect, Reponchild hunger. sibility, Fairness, Caring, and Citizenship. Developing a respectful and responsible character is a skill every child needs in order to thrive, find fulfillment, and be an influence for good in society.

Adolescent Adolescent HealthInitiative Initiative Health

Working in collaboration with the Working in collaboration with the Morehouse College College of of Medicine, Medicine, Morehouse Thomasville City School System, Thomasville City School System, andand thethe Marguerite Neel Williams Boys & Girls Marguerite Neel Williams Boys & Girls Club, TCRC will deliver evidence based Club, TCRC will deliver evidence based abstinenceteen teenpregnancy pregnancyprevention prevention abstinence programs in Thomas County. programs in Thomas and Grady County. Thecommunity TCRC Clinic is awill continuing initiative The clinic provide testing of the Resource Center’stransmitted Coalition of services for sexually Promise and andpregnancy. Prevention, which supports infections a collaborative effort to prevent and reduce substance use, reduce teen pregnancy, reduce STI’s, STD’s, HIV/AIDS, Expanded Hand NEW at-risk behaviors among young Playground Area people of the community. Due to our increased enrollment the playground area will be enlarged in 2016.

“They’re and teachto life lessons and allow us to 7be ourselves.” “We learnreally Math.great I love coming TCRC.” - Camron Brooks,

“The help STEMme staff are “They understand nice and a lotme fornew us.” things and do teach things I haven’t learned yet.” - Jaden Samuel, 10

“I like that we get to go on “The staff was wonderful trips and learn new stuff.” and a blessing to me and my son” - Robbie Curry

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