It’s a bit of a drive from Texarkana, but Southern Arkansas University in Magnolia hosts a potentially fascinating and inspiring question and answer session and lecture Tuesday evening that movie fans (or anyone intrigued by young dreamers) may want to check out.
It’s a neat opportunity to see two young and precocious filmmakers speak, one of whom attended SAU. Twin brothers Noah and Logan Miller directed the film “Toucing Home,” starring Ed Harris, Brad Dourif, and Robert Forster; the movie, which has yet to gain wide release but has played at film festivals, chronicles their real life struggles with an alcoholic father who died in jail. For a time, Noah was an SAU student on a baseball scholarship. But he ultimately left the school when he had to return to California.
The Miller brothers wrote a book on how—without much money and no Hollywood connections—they accomplished their dream of making a movie. I read a bit of the book online and it features some crisp, great writing, and it seems like both a sad and redemptive tale. It’s also funny and insightful. The book is called “Either You’re In or You’re In the Way,” and they’ll discuss it at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center at SAU.
More info on the Miller brothers is available at www.inorintheway.com.
- Aaron Brand
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September 24th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
These guys rock!