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The INDEPENDENT FILM TRACK is proud to bring you a screening of the independent film Forgiving the Franklins. The first feature by director/writer Jay Floyd, this comedy-drama has received critical acclaim and has screened at both the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT and the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, TX.
The Franklins—Mom, Dad, and kids Caroline and Brian—are a God-fearing, über-repressed, and ultra-judgmental family whose lives are changed forever in a terrible car accident. In a near-death vision, Jesus Chris, sporting tattoos and a tank top, visits them and delivers them from the burden of Original Sin.
Thus unencumbered, they return to their old life, and discover that their outlook on everything, from church to relationships and even sex, has changed, putting them at odds with the values of their community. Worse, daughter Caroline didn’t experience their rebirth and is mortified by how her family has burst their shackles of repressed sexuality.
Floyd’s hilarious masterpiece juggles themes of hypocrisy, bigotry, and sexual inhibition in modern society with laugh-out-loud humor in a fresh, colorful, and intensely poignant tale. This sexy satire will leave you thinking.
Dragon*Con is your only opportunity to catch this festival favorite in Georgia. Don’t miss it! (Note: This film is not intended for children.)
Sun 8:30PM, International South Ballroom.
| Eugie Foster, when not flexing her editorial muscles for the Daily Dragon, is an award-winning writer of fiction that ranges from children’s folktales to science fiction to erotic horror. She received the 2009 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, is currently a finalist for the 2010 Hugo Award for Best Novelette, and was named the 2009 Author of the Year by Bards and Sages. Her works have been translated into French, Hungarian, Polish, and Greek, and her publication credits number over 100, including stories in Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Cricket and anthologies Best New Fantasy and Best New Romantic Fantasy 2. Her short fiction collection, Returning My Sister's Face and Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice, is now out from Norilana Books. |
