SOUTH MAIN - “A vibrant, skillful portrait of three women from South Central Los Angeles… of women living on the edge, their vitality and struggle simply captured and realistically portrayed. Parker uses straightforward framing devices and a striking use of off-screen sound in order to let scenes develop in real time and with minimal editing. SOUTH MAIN is mesmerizing, honest, and hopeful.” - Chicago Filmmakers

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 - 8:00 PM

Chicago Filmmakers
5243 N. Clark St., 2nd Floor
(773) 293.1447
Programming Coordinator: Todd Lillethun

I’m very happy that South Main will be screening in Chicago!  Finally:) Some of my best memories were made in that city. Screening date coming soon..!

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South Main will be screening in Lisbon, Portugal on

30 April, 23:30, Cinema Londres, Screening Room 2
3 May, 21:15, Cinema Londres, Screening Room 2

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South Main has been invited to screen in Lisbon Portugal as part of the IndieLisboa Film Festival running from April 23rd through May 6th.

Screening at the 31st Films de Femmes between March 13 - 22, 2009

Pixeltown Write Up by Holly Willis

“Parker’s doc is a genuine achievement on numerous fronts, so make sure to take this chance to see it. Her keen eye for South L.A.’s domestic spaces brings us novel views of the area’s street corners, buildings facades and downbeat interiors, South Main’s spaces simultaneously stark, architectural and pointedly lived-in. Parker’s unpretentious camera is most at home plopped down directly and straightforwardly before her subjects, but South Main is never static, the unblinking set-ups painterly while also evoking the “hidden camera” aesthetic of reality television and urban surveillance. She also hands the camera off to her subjects’ children for numerous scenes, creating a raw, active and participatory visual track.

Ultimately though, it’s the stories of these women that make South Main such a striking experience. One woman describes holding her her fiance as he dies of a gunshot wound. Another tries to navigate a confusing entitlement system that penalizes her for getting a paying a job. Told exclusively in their own words and unadorned by cross-cutting or music vid-style soundtracks, the voices of South Main’s women are an understated and needed complement to the kind of media-savvy, male bravado one finds in almost two-decades worth of ‘hood flicks and docs like Stacy Peralta’s Made In America, which is getting a high profile roll-out this summer.  The men in Peralta’s Made in America may be fighting a war, but it’s good to be reminded that they are loved, buried and remembered by Parker’s mother’s, wives, sisters and girlfriends.”  - Holly Willis

Los Angeles Filmforum presents the Los Angeles premieres of  South Main, an intimate portrait of three single African American mothers as they struggle to raise their families and regain their lives after a government imposed relocation and closure of their apartment complex in South Los Angeles.  There will be screenings at two locations on February 8 and 11, 2009.

Sunday February 8, 2009, 7:00 pm
Filmforum at the Egyptian Theatre,
6712 Hollywood Blvd. at Las Palmas, Los Angeles CA 90028
Wednesday February 11, 2009, 6:30 and 8:30 pm
Filmforum at KAOS Network
4343 Leimert Blvd. at 43rd Place (2 blocks east of Crenshaw Blvd.), Los Angeles CA 90008

Tickets: $10 admission / $6 students/seniors / Free to LA Filmforum members
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For reservations, email the name & number in your party to lafilmforum@yahoo.com.

“Parker delves into a largely unseen section of Los Angeles and the travails of three women, cast with their families out of an apartment complex deemed unsafe in 2004 by the government due to the local gang activity.  The tactic chosen by our city to diffuse this gang activity: demolish the complex and force all the families to find new residences.

As we begin a new presidency and hear calls for reborn political and community activity, this is the sort of film that must be seen so we can gain an understanding of the problems being confronted.  But the film is no mere propaganda or liberal plea.  In her locked off shots and long takes, Parker imparts the dignity of the women and the range of their difficulties, as they stave off homelessness and confront the mindless violence that wracks their neighborhood.  Superb filmmaking, the kind that raises the viewer’s consciousness and should be viewed by all Angeleños.” - Adam Hyman, Director LA Filmforum

South Main will be screening as part of the Shadow Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam on November 24th at the home of Dutch director Frans Weisz.

Shadow Documentary Film Festival

South Main is screening for the first time in The States at Detroit Docs Interntational Film Festival

Saturday, November 1st  1515 Broadway  5:22 pm

SOUTH MAIN screening schedule