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28 | September/October 2018 P A R T S Indigo Moon Film Festival BY NATHAN WALLS | PHOTOGRAPHY BY MATTHEW WONDERLY P at Wright's passion for films says it best: "Film is cool because it makes the world smaller and it brings new ideas to people and it makes our community richer for it." at's the call to action for people to attend the annual Indigo Moon Film Festival, which will be held for the third straight year Oct. 12-14 in historic downtown Fayetteville. Wright and Jan Johnson of Groundswell Pictures and Moonlight Communications brought the film festival to Fayetteville because the closest such event was about an hour and a half away. "We both love quality films," Johnson said. "We have practically made a profession of going to film festivals. We have been accepted and awarded at film festivals. One of the greatest joys of a film festival is when the filmmakers come to talk about their films and why they made them." Having enjoyed very popular film festivals in Asheville and Durham, the latter of which is known to attract approx- imately 25,000 fans annually, Johnson and Wright saw the positive impact the events have had on those communities. "And we just thought we need that here," Wright said. "Folks enjoy living somewhere that has that kind of cultural art." e 2018 festival will have a green theme – the great out- doors – and is co-sponsored by Sustainable Sandhills and the City of Fayetteville's Public Works Commission (PWC). e opening night film this year is "Living in the Future's Past," which shows the impact of how everything we do is having an impact on our environment. e documentary is narrated and produced by actor and environmentalist Jeff Bridges. "While you might not think every time you turn on your ignition or throw things in the trash that should be recycled is all that bad, it shows the impact of billions of people do- ing this," Wright said. Johnson continued: "Bridges' focus is on doing every- thing we can to save our planet. For centuries, we have been doing a lot of harm to our planet. Right now, it's going A table arrangement at the opening night reception in 2016, the first year of the festival

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