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14 UCW MAY 31 - JUNE 6, 2017 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Your Community Handbook News, Views, Arts and Entertainment. Fayetteville's Community Newspaper providing useful information for you every week. www.upandcomingweekly.com 910.484.6200 Update Inside UPDATE INSIDE CUMBERLAND MATTERS Bring Your Love Downtown The Night They Invented Champagne Entertains FEBRUARY 9-15, 2011 FEBRUARY 9-15, 2011 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 06 VOLUME 16 ISSUE 06 Focus On Fayetteville INSIDE I Love Downtown Fayetteville Quacks Up Duck Derby Slated Most people can remember a specific interest that burned in their childhood hearts and led to like-mind- ed friends, a secret club and glorious endeavors of creation. For the found- ing members of Foxshire Films, each person remembers one passion very clearly: love of motion pictures. Foxshire Films currently consists of four of its founding members — Samu- el Heble, Brendan Alspach and broth- ers Nicholas and Gage Long — and recent recruit Kathryn Holden. "We want to challenge ourselves and the community around us to go forward artistically and just do it; pur- sue your dreams," said Alspach. Heble agreed, adding, "I want our films to give glory to God in a way that's truth- ful and destroys Christian art culture. We want to preach the gospel through messages that are really raw and in unique ways, straight from our hearts." On December 12, 2015, Heble, the Long brothers and others who are no longer with the group met up at Coffee Scene to talk about film. At that meet- ing, everyone was full of restless energy and ready to turn their love for film into commitment and action. "It was very organic in a surprising way. … We got together and it was so collaborative that (the group's formation) kind of just happened on its own," Gage said. "e lack of things happening pushed us to commit," added Nick. at's not to say it was a picture-per- fect start. ey were working with a small amount of basic film equipment and an essentially non-existent budget. eir communication and organiza- tional skills needed much improvement. But they committed. ey met every Wednesday for two to five hours. ey spent time outside of that weekly meet- ing doing individual tasks like writing short film scripts, storyboarding or scouting film locations. And as they continued to meet, they just started doing it: making films, trying on roles and skills and getting their hands dirty. eir first production was "John Johnson" in January 2016, a one-and-a-half minute film that was shot in one day, in one room, with one actor — that actor being founding member Nick. Since then, they've made five more short films. eir most recent release, "One Night…," is an 11-and-a-half min- ute comedy-suspense with five actors and an original score composed by Greensboro musician Andrew Beach and performed by music students at UNC Greensboro, with atmospheric lighting aided by a homemade fog ma- chine. Another one of those five films, "rough the Treeline," was accepted into Fayetteville's Indigo Moon Film Festival in October 2016. is year, Foxshire showed its films and spoke at two public events, FTCC's Off the Record: Artist Series night, and SKD's Cultural Arts Festival. ey plan to continue their forward momentum, aiming to build a growing network of film-lovers and dream-chasers in Fayetteville. Last summer, Foxshire made its first big effort to reach out to the com- munity with a project titled e Fox Gathering. For this five-month project, Foxshire put out an open call to those interested in any aspect of filmmaking, like screenwriting, directing, acting or sound. e goal was not to create perfect products, but to give people a chance to jump into the filmmaking process and learn together regardless of skill level. A total of 33 people partic- ipated, and the result was three short films. Collin Tubbs, Fox Gathering participant, said, "(It) was really open to whoever was interested and invested in it. …It was like a breath of fresh air." e resounding theme of my inter- view with Foxshire was, "Just do it." So take note, dreamers. Go forth and do. Email foxshirefilms@gmail.com to connect with the group, and follow their progress by liking their Facebook page. Watch three of their films at vimeo.com/foxshirefilms and watch their Fox Gathering films at vimeo. com/thefoxgathering. Dreamers Take Action: Foxshire Films by LESLIE PYO Nick Long, Kathryn Holden, Gage Long, Brendan Alspach and Samuel Heble Fox Gathering participants on the set of "One Night..." LESLIE PYO, Assistant Editor. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcom- ingweekly.com. 910.484.6200. PROFILE