Beyond Ordinary Award to be presented Saturday to Josh & Rebecca Tickell
BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival screens virtually Sept. 24-27.Documentarians Josh & Rebecca Tickell to receive inaugural “Beyond Ordinary” filmmaker award.Festival hosts 30 films and 3 workshops free to patrons.“Beyond Ordinary Award” honors the filmmakers of the critically-acclaimed documentaries, FUEL and KISS THE GROUND for their career achievements and environmental advocacy.CARY, N.C. (September 24, 2020) – […]
30 Films Set to Screen Virtually at BEYOND Sept. 24-27
The Town of Cary’s film festival received a record number of entries, and 30 films will screen virtually Sept. 24-27, 2020, produced by The Cary Theater. The third annual BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival was rescheduled from its original dates in June due to COVID-19.CARY, N.C. (September 1, 2020) – BEYOND: The Cary Film Festival […]
Messages and Feedback
Safer at Home, Phase Two As you know, on Friday, May 22 at 5pm, we moved into Phase Two. The Stay at Home order was lifted and we moved to a Safer at Home recommendation, especially for vulnerable populations.Some business will remain closed including: bars, night clubs, museums, playgrounds, indoor fitness facilities, gyms, and indoor entertainment […]
Dialogue
We miss you guys. We miss our daily conversations with patrons, special guests, local filmmakers, CFC members, and volunteers. We miss the dialogue that happens at our Q&As. Many conversations have moved to virtual meeting platforms and mobile video apps. While these tools have been a safe, fun, useful, and educational alternative, there is nothing that can replace the […]
Hope
Hope/hōp/Noun – a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Hope is something that you want to happen or the sense that good things will come. If you are a filmmaker and you make it to the final round of a film festival, that gives you hope. We are very hopeful […]
Silver Lining
From the “Silver Screen” to looking for the Silver Lining Sil-ver- Li-ningnoun/ a consoling or hopeful prospect; something good that can be found in a bad situationAlthough we don’t know when our theater will reopen, there have been lots of good things happening all around us. As the old saying goes, “Every cloud has a […]
Community
Com-mu-ni-ty/kəˈmyo͞onədē/NounA group of people sharing the same environmentand having shared interests;Our community includes everyone in Cary. Our shared interest is the health and well-being of each other. As a community, we are all in this Stay at Home order together. It won’t be long before the temporary isolation we are going through now will seem […]
Temporary!
tem·po·rar·yadjectivelasting for only a limited period of time;not permanent.Even though this is not the spring at The Cary that we’d envisioned – and we don’t know how long the world is going to be upside down, we still have hope that this is only temporary. Let’s dream of returning to some of the things that […]
Intermission Happenings!
in·ter·mis·sion/ˌin(t)ərˈmiSHən/nouna pause or break.It seems like the entire world is on a “regular life” intermission doesn’t it? We miss seeing you at the Theater, but we’re definitely on board with staying home and protecting our friends and neighbors!While we’re on this brief hiatus from gathering together, we thought it would a fun to share some […]
Sick Chick Flicks Film Festival Spotlights Women Filmmakers, Oct. 12-13
Sick Chick Flicks set to take over The Cary4th annual film festival takes place October 12-13Features Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy films created by female filmmakers world-wideNew this year: Pitch Your Project, an opportunity for filmmakers to pitch their latest film projectCARY, N.C. (September 26, 2019) The Sick Chick Flicks Film Fest (SCFFF) returns to The […]
