Top grossing films were Holy Motors, A Royal Affair and Somebody Up There Likes Me. Durham-based filmmaker Jim Haverkamp hosted a standing room only screening of experimental shorts produced during the film festival as part of the Strange Beauty Challenge. Festival staff conducted a closing ceremony described as “the Holy Rite of Communion served by the First National Church of the Exquisite Panic.”
Top grossing films were Holy Motors, A Royal Affair and Somebody Up There Likes Me. Durham-based filmmaker Jim Haverkamp hosted a standing room only screening of experimental shorts produced during the film festival as part of the Strange Beauty Challenge. Festival staff conducted a closing ceremony described as “the Holy Rite of Communion served by the First National Church…