Bright Leaves
What legacy is passed down to generations when a family is a giant tobacco producer? Filmmaker Ross McElwee ("Sherman's March," "Time Indefinite"), whose great-grandfather created the famous Bull Durham brand in his native North Carolina, takes viewers on an autobiographical journey across the state's social, economic and psychological tobacco terrain. Wise and wry, this meditation on the allure of cigarettes looks at loss and preservation, addiction and denial. It also examines filmmaking itself, as McElwee grapples with home movies, a vintage Hollywood melodrama and his own efforts to document North Carolina and his family. This program also contains a short film by Jason DaSilva, "A Song
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