Millsaps College will present Cynthia Hill as part of the Southern Circuit tour of independent filmmakers at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 15, in room 215 of the Ford Academic Complex. Following a screening of her film The Guestworker, Hill will engage the audience in a discussion of the film and her work as a filmmaker. The movie and discussion are free and open to the public. For directions or more information, contact Austin Wilson at 601-974-1305 or wilsola@millsaps.edu.
The Guestworker follows 66-year-old Mexican farm laborer Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno through his tenth year of work in the H-2A Guestworker Visa program. In spite of back-breaking labor, unpredictable pay, separation from homeland and family, and no chance for American citizenship, Candelario and his fellow laborers return year after year for a chance at economic betterment.
The evening will also include an opening short, Kristy Hiby’s Bowl Digger. The short is a loving documentary about octogenarians Maxie and Hilton Eades, rural South Carolinians who make wooden bowls and dough trays as durable as their creators.
Cynthia Hill is an independent filmmaker in Durham, N.C. Hill worked as a producer and editor at GLC Productions, a post-production facility in New York City, before returning to work on her own films in the South. She is the co-producer of February One, a documentary about the 1960 Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter sit-ins, which premiered on PBS in 2005. Hill’s first independent documentary, Tobacco Money Feeds My Family, is currently on the festival circuit and looking for a broadcast home. In addition, Hill is the co-founder of the Southern Documentary Fund, a documentary-artist support organization based in North Carolina.
The Southern Circuit Film Series is organized by the Southern Arts Federation in conjunction with the South Carolina Arts Commission. It is funded locally by Millsaps College with the generous support of the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Film Office.
