Counter Culture Coffee. Photo by Jeremy M. Lange.
Our short film Cafe Sense will screen at two local joints next week! See us at ChathamArt’s Sustainable Cinema Series with shorts from many other local filmmakers. 7:30pm at the Fearrington Barn Tuesday May 29th. Admission is $5.
Or come to Nightlight Club's Salon on Thursday May 31st at 9:30pm. Dance, music and film. Admission is nada.
Watch the trailer.
“When I retired from the military, I was 100% disabled. They said, I’m not employable. They just wanted me to sit back and enjoy years I have left. I can’t do that. One, I’m not one for that. And two, I want to show people just because you are hurt or are disabled, or just because you have what people call handicap or something different about you, doesn’t mean you have to stop everything you’re doing. That’s why I push hard every day. And me and Jesse, we run this 43 acres ourselves. Just me and her. Every damn day I do this. It helps. Keeps my mind off stuff. Keeps me occupied. If I just sit around here all day doing nothing, I get to thinking, thoughts lead to bad stuff.”
- Alex Sutton, farmer and veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
We will soon be launching a Kickstarter campaign for Farmer Veteran Project, a film that will explore what happens after war, when soldiers return to life in their rural communities and seek peace by working the land and tending to livestock. Stay tuned.
Summer Solstice, Hillsborough, 2011 | Photo by D.L. Anderson
Vittles and Daylight Magazine are hosting a backyard fundraising BBQ with live music, film screenings and tasty beverages on Friday, May 25th, from 6-9pm in Hillsborough. This will be the first event to kick-off our 30 day fundraising drive for the Farmer Veteran Project.
Come around back and say hello: 121 W. Margaret Lane, Hillsborough, NC 27278
“It’s not a commodity. It is a commodity, but we don’t want to treat it like one. It’s way too precious for that.”
Coffee taster’s wheel by Catherine Edgerton
Check it out: Cafè Sense screens April 15th at the Full Frame Festival In-the-Works session: 1:50pm at the Durham Arts Council.
Wok Next Door
Our first finished Vittles production. This is short documentary about getting up the nerve to ask your neighbor to teach you how to cook.