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North Carolina people and places featured in RiverRun's 'Carolina Stories' film series

Friday is opening night for RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem.

This year's festival showings were culled from over 12,000 submissions. 

The Carolina Stories series features documentaries and narratives with regional connections. They may be by local filmmakers or highlight locations in the area, says RiverRun’s Interim Co-executive director Mary Dossinger. 

She says among the selections is the drama Inheritance, co-starring Austin Highsmith Garces, who grew up in Winston-Salem.

“We thought that was such a fun connection that we wanted to highlight that and bring her film back here so her friends and family would be able to celebrate it with her,” she says.

Documentaries in the series include American Coup: Wilmington 1898, about the racially driven violent uprising against the Black economic and political power structure in the North Carolina city.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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