Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.
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The sound was never exactly polished, but it had plenty of soul, and the Memphis sound created at Stax Records has found its own special place in the history of American music.
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At a time when the viability of  many record companies seems less than certain, three new labels  are launching in the Christian community.
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New releases from Foo Fighters, Twista, Iron and Wine, Keyshia Cole and the Weakerthans.
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Its mismatched lineup features shows on Southern foods, music and attractions along with some live Atlanta sports events and a healthy dose of previous-run movies and TV reruns.
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There's more than one championship-caliber team in the Southeastern Conference. And Sylvia Fowles is showing the league has more than one star.
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With bouzoukis and pipas in hand, indie rock goes global. Buzz ensues.
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Ross McElwee's reflective, wise, often hilarious documentary examines the tobacco industry in his native state of North Carolina.
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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John Sayles, the independent filmmaker who wrote and directed "Matewan," will be a featured guest at the 20th annual West Virginia International Film Festival next month.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of all places.
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The nation's low-budget films, imbued with the residue of communism, are wowing critics and audiences.
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"Ballast," the Southern-set  drama by Lance Hammer that won two awards at the 2008 Sundance  Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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With spirited preaching and conservative teaching, the South is giving the faith a new flavor