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March 27, 2007 Mayor's Film Series Continues April 18th
The 2007 Mayor’s Film Series being presented at Driftwood Public Library will continue on Wednesday, April 18th with a screening of director Patricia Foulkrod's The Ground Truth. The film will start promptly at 6:00 p.m. in the Friends’ Room of the library. Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth. (from www.thegroundtruth.net) The film’s director, Patricia Foulkrod, began her film and television career as an assistant in news and public affairs. After working her way up to producing programming, she further honed her producing skills on industrial films for such companies as Boeing, Mercedes Benz, Air France, and Disney. After moving to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, she line-produced the acclaimed 70mm documentary The Living Seas; and produced and directed They're Doing My Time, an hour-long PBS documentary about children whose mothers are in prison. She later executive-produced a telefilm adaptation of the latter, entitled Locked Up: A Mother's Rage, which was directed by Bethany Rooney and starred Cheryl Ladd and Angela Bassett; and co-produced the six-hour documentary series The Native Americans, for Turner Broadcasting System. Ms. Foulkrod has since worked as a producer of independent feature films, among them An American Rhapsody, starring Scarlett Johansson, Nastassja Kinski, and Tony Goldwyn; Crazy Like a Fox, starring Roger Rees and Mary McDonnell; and The Linguini Incident, starring Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie. Driftwood Public Library is located on the second floor of the Lincoln City Civic Center at 801 SW Highway 101 (next to Price and Pride). The screening of The Ground Truth is free and open to the public. Any questions should be directed to Ken Hobson. His phone number is 996-1242 or he can be reached by e-mail at khobson@driftwoodlib.org.
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