Searching for the
Wrong-Eyed Jesus

Friday, June 8 at 8:00 PM Flying Monkey Arts Center, 2211 Seminole Drive Admission $5 / $3 Film Co-op members

THE FILM An audience favorite from this year's Ebertfest, this non-fiction film was inspired by a song by southern folk musician Jim White titled "The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jesus" and is about reconnecting with his past growing up in the deep south. Take a captivating and compelling road trip through the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coalmines, truckstops, juke joints, swamps and mountains. Along the way you'll meet musicians including the Handsome Family, Johnny Dowd, 16 Horsepower, and David Johansen, old time banjo player Lee Sexton, and novelist Harry Crews. This film is a collage of stories and testimonies filled with sudden death, sin and redemption... and all the while, a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background. "Probably the best way to think of Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus is that what you are watching is one man's visual poem of a (large) region and people." Director: Andrew Douglas Writer: Steve Haisman Cast: Harry Crews, Johnny Dowd, David Eugene Edwards AWARDS + Official Selection -- Tribeca Film Festival, New York + Official Selection -- International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam + Official Selection -- Los Angeles Film Festival + Winner - Jury Award for Best Documentary -- Seattle Film Festival WEBSITE http://www.searchingforthewrongeyedjesus.com/