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"The Strand Film Festival -- The Red Carpet Project" comprises a series of short films shown in the IMAX 3D Theatre at Broadway at the Beach.
"What better place than Myrtle Beach in November for a film festival?" said Jessica Durivage, executive director and co-founder of the Global Awareness Project.
Besides showing its own film promoting service work, "The Silly Side of Serious," project officials will screen at least four other films by a variety of artists on an array of subjects.
Organizers watched the films last week.
"They pack such an opinion," Durivage said. "I'm really excited about it."
She said officials hooked up with The Collective, a New York nonprofit production company established last year by a group that includes Kevin Kane, an alumnus of Coastal Carolina University.
Durivage said the project aims to help nonprofits expand their potential to connect with the public, and the film festival provides a new tool.
"We're hoping to attract some attention to other organizations people might want to support," she said, hoping to involve more film groups for such a festival in 2009.
She's looking forward to meeting directors and producers from New York and Hollywood whose work will play Wednesday.
The director of "Linus," Zac Whinnem, and his wife, will travel from Los Angeles for the festival.
"They think it's a great idea and cause, to come together for the community," Durivage said.
The event comes on the heels of the Myrtle Beach-based organization's "Jewels of the South" folk art festival last month in Socastee, where $6,000 was raised to publish a calendar that will showcase 15 area students' art.
The film fest will open with Carl Kurlander's "My Tale of Two Cities," which chronicles his return home to Pittsburgh to teach for a year after spending two decades as a Hollywood screenwriter and TV writer/producer.
He and his family settled in the same neighborhood as Fred Rogers of PBS fame.
Kurlander said the film resulted from sheer fate and originally had a third-person angle. "But it became a metaphor of 'Can I go home again?'" he said, asking how the onetime steel town rebounded with its economy and esteem since its glory industrial days decades ago.
He even interviewed neighbors such as Hall of Fame Steelers running back Franco Harris and philanthropist Teresa Heinz Kerry, the latter of whom reiterated, "We don't dream big enough."
This short film is part of a full-length version that will premiere later in Pittsburgh with a meaning about how a community can mount a comeback.
"Mister Rogers clearly believed it's our neighbors," Kurlander said. "What's going to save us is your neighbor."
Kurlander said the film screening last month at Duke University generated many e-mails.
"Hey, this message isn't just for people in Pittsburgh," he said. "It's for everybody."
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