Selected Feature: Incident at Alma
Film: Incident at Alma
Director: Dick Fisher
Director: Dick Fisher
Written by: David Lee Rawlings
Run Time: 30-Minutes
Genre: Historical Drama
Release: 2006
Run Time: 30-Minutes
Genre: Historical Drama
Release: 2006
Showing Time: 3:30-pm, March 24th - Arivaca Community Center
In rural post-Depression Arizona, a preacher has only ten minutes to save a condemned black farmhand's soul. In an intense, emotional confrontation the preacher's faith is shaken when he is forced by the prisoner to examine the meaning of his own life.The film is a cautionary tale of race prejudice and personal redemption. Set in 1935, it tells the story of the last few minutes before the “legal lynching” of a black farm hand in a small rural community in Arizona. A preacher (played by Colin Cunningham, Stargate-1, CSI: Miami, House, M.D.) is given ten minutes by the local sheriff (veteran western actor Don Collier) to minister to the condemned man (Kwane Vedrene). Their brief conversation creates an unsettling bond between the two and reveals more than the preacher was prepared for. The experience leaves the preacher, and ultimately the rest of the town, changed forever. Incident at Alma is a timely, dramatic parable of the human spirit, of justice, self consciousness and redemption.
Note to audience: This film contains mature themes.
Web Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807844/