Artist-in-residence Paula Damasceno has directed a documentary reflecting on 85 years of Greensboro’s Carolina Theatre. Her poetic visual style demonstrates how, since opening in 1927, the theater has been a palace for dream and fantasy, a place where the Segregation Law was established and abolished, a building which survived the decline of the downtown in the 1960s and ’70s and a fire in the 80’s, and still operates as a theater today.
Damasceno still needs help to finishing the editing process and distribute the film to spread this incredible story. Visit her homemade Kickstarter blog at http://www.thecarolina85doc.
The world premier was shown on October 29, 2012, at the Carolina Theatre, for their 85th Anniversary Celebration.
The film is a collaborative project between the Carolina Theatre, Elsewhere and the International Civil Rights Center & Museum and the North Carolina Humanities Council, a statewide nonprofit and affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.