Event Archive 2006

  • January 26: Acoustic Workshop, 8 pm, $7
  • February 2: Moonshine Still, 8 pm, $10
  • February 9: Chris Hicks, 8 pm, $7
  • February 12: American Theatre Organ Society Fundraiser for The Capitol Theatre, 3pm, free
    (donations to Capitol suggested)
    A silent "two-reeler" comedy will be accompanied by Ron Carter on the Theatre organ.
    There will also be several cameo performances from members of the Atlanta chapter of ATOS
  • February 16: Commander Cody, 8 pm, $10
  • February 28 : Last Day to Enter MAGA. Postmarked by date; Notified by March 20, 2006
  • April 5-9, 2006: MAGA Festival

MAGA Daily Breakdown

Thursday, April 6th – MAGA Kick Off

Reception (Off Broadway & 2nd Street)
MAGA Special Screenings (The Accountant dir Ray McKinnon) 8:00-9:00pm
(29th and Gay dir Carrie Preston) 9:00 – 11:30pm

Friday, April 7th – MAGA Day One

Laurel & Hardy’s “Two Tars” 7:00pm
(organ performance by Ken Double)
MAGA Film Screenings 8:00-10:00pm
Buster Keaton’s “06 Week” 10:00pm
(organ performance by Ken Double)
MAGA Special Screening
(*Deliverance dir John Boorman) 10:30 – 12:00am

8:00-9:00pm
Lunch (Music Video) 5:00
Trapper Jack (Documentary) 13:00
Blue Milk (Comedy) 2:00
Not Until You Dance (Animation) 2:00
Margin (Drama) 8;00
The Idiot Boxer (Comedy) 5:00
Strip Mall Trilogy (Experimental) 9:00
Snare (Drama) 14;00
A Story (Stop Animation) 3:00

9:00-10:00pm
20 Minutes (Drama) 5;00
A Girl’s Guide to Depravity (Comedy) 10;00
Love Stains (Comedy) 8;00
Give Peace a Chance (Documentary) 7:00
A Dawg’s Tale (Comedy) 29:00

Saturday, April 8th – MAGA Day Two

Macon Screeners 12:00-2:00pm (Macon filmmaker submissions)
MAGA Film Screenings 2:00-7:30pm
MAGA Special Screening (*Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus) 7:30-9:00pm
Art Opening (11th Hour Office) 9:00-12:00am

12:00-2;00pm Macon Screeners

(Middle Georgia filmmakers who were not selected for juried competition)

2:00-3:00pm

The Depression of Detective Downs (Animation) 7:00
24 at 1201 (Documentary) 21;00
Shade 1 (Experimental) 11:14
And then there were Nun (Drama) 4;00
Loyalty (Comedy) 5:00
Everybody Sins (Drama) 12:00

3:00-4:00pm

Billy’s Museum (Documentary) 20;00
Convulse (Experimental) 3:00
Remote (Comedy) 2:00
Composition in Red and Yellow (Experimental) 2:30
Happy Ending (Drama) 16:00
3re (Drama) 15:00

4:00-5:00pm

Briars in the Cotton Patch (Documentary) 57:00
Busted (Comedy) 3:00

5:00-6:00pm

3x1 (Music Video) 5:00
Riverside (Drama) 12:00
A Woman in a Mirror (Experimental) 15:00
To Mint Again (Drama) 7:00
Speeder (Comedy) 2;00
Tin Man (Drama) 10;00
Rock/Hard Place (Experimental) 6:00
Unseen (Experimental) 1:00

6:00-7:30pm

Going Dutch (Documentary) 20:00
Save (Experimental) 5:00
Blue Milk (Comedy) 2:00
Commitment (Drama) 10;00
Love Stains (Comedy) 8:00
Flicker Primer (Experimental) 2:00
Really Close Goodbye Forever (Drama) 20;00
A Girl’s Guide to Depravity (Comedy) 10:00
20 Minutes (Drama) 5:00

Sunday, April 9th – MAGA Day Three

MAGA Awards Ceremony and Screening of Winning Films
5:00-7:00pm
MAGA Special Screening (Wise Blood dir John Huston)
7:00-9:00pm

MAGA Passes

Executive Producer Pass - $50.00

Gives entry to all MAGA film screenings, special screenings, awards ceremony, and receptions. Pass is valid for all four days of the festival.

Director’s Pass - $20.00

Gives entry to all MAGA film screenings and special screenings. Valid for all four days

Production Assistant Pass - $30.00 (Student Pass)

Gives entry to all MAGA film screenings, special screenings, awards ceremony, and receptions. Pass is valid for all four days of the festival.

*Denotes the films that are still in the process of being secured.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS

The Accountant – directed by Ray McKinnon

Georgia born director Ray McKinnon’s short film The Accountant was the 2001 Academy Award Winner for Best Live Acton short.

Synopsis - The Accountant, the 2001 Academy Award Winning ® Best Action Live Short film, Ray McKinnon tells the story of a mysterious accountant whose remarkable mathematical skills just might save the O’Dell family farm. (courtesy of Internet Movie Database)

29th and Gay – directed by Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston is a Macon native who got her start at Theatre Macon. She is an accomplished actress and 29th and Gay is her first film in which she plays the role of producer, director, and editor.

Synopsis - 29th and Gay' is the movie for the gay everyman. Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination. (courtesy of Internet Movie Database)

Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus – directed by Andrew Douglass

Jim White plays himself in this engaging journey into the Deep South. Director Andrew Douglas tracks the alternative-country crooner as he brings his music to such diverse establishments as churches, jails and roadside bars. Along the way, Douglas shows us the touching world of the impoverished whites who have been cast aside by modern society, only to create their own unorthodox culture. Also features music from Johnny Dowd and Lee Sexton. (courtesy of Netflix)

Deliverance – directed by John Boorman

This Oscar nominated film by director John Boorman was filmed in many locations around the state of Georgia including Clayton, Tallulah Gorge, and Rabun County.

Synopsis –Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American backcountry. (courtesy of Internet Movie Database)

Wise Blood – directed by John Huston

This legendary director adapted Flannery O’Connor’s novel and filmed it on location in Macon in 1979.

Synopsis – A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church. (Courtesy of the Internet Movie Database)