Watkinsville raised film maker Curtis Krick screens mockumentary Something Blue at Athens film festival
Local filmmaker Curtis Krick's mocumentary "Something Blue," is set to headline the Dixie Film Festival taking place in Athens, Georgia, October 16-18, 2009. The film follows the weeks leading up to a marriage between a beautiful Caucasian bride from an upper class suburban family and a blue-collar groom from the fictitious blue-skinned Antarctica Polar-American race. Co-directors Krick and long time collaborator Sean Dillon developed the film as a way of exploring a lot of weighty issues - race, class, gender, culture and age to name just a few - in a humorous yet insightful way. Krick, currently based in Los Angeles, grew up in Georgia. "I have a deep affinity to Athens and the local area," he says. "I lived in the city from the age of eight to 13, then in Watkinsville through high school. As a teenager I was heavily involved with various local theatre companies including Athens Creative Theatre and the Town and Gown players." The 90-minute feat...
