This Summer, residents of the Treasure Coast and all film aficionados are invited to join the Cultural Alliance and Treasure Coast Internation Film Society members in celebrating culturally significant films and past film festival favorites.
Seating is limited; general admission tickets are $7.50; Cultural Alliance member and student tickets are $5.
Screenings take place at St. Lucie Cultural Alliance Gallery located at 111 Orange Avenue, 3rd Floor, Fort Pierce, FL
Treasure Coast International Film Society, Inc. (TCI) is a non-profit organization representing the cinematic arts and filmmaking community on the Treasure Coast.
Their mission is to honor, develop, and celebrate filmmakers and production teams that create independent and foreign films of artistic and cultural importance.
TCI Film Society produces the annual TCI Film, Music, and Art Festival and is a proud partner of The City of Port St. Lucie, The City of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie Cultural Alliance, The Zora Neale Hurston Florida Education Foundation, and the Inner Truth Project. For more information about TCI visit: www.tcifilmfest.org
Previously Screened
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Presented in partnership with The Inner Truth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to survivors of sexual assault
I’m Still Standing
Closing Night Reception: 6:00 PM
The Inner Truth Project and Cultural Alliance came together to present the inaugural exhibition of “I’m Still Standing”, an art project that partners local artists with survivors of sexual trauma. For as long as it has existed, art has been a catalyst for societal change, healing, and uplifting others. “I’m Still Standing” invited the pairs to work together to create art from recycled materials, mirroring the journey of survivors of sexual assault. Join us for the closing reception before the exhibit travels to the Elliott Museum in Stuart.
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Screening: 7 PM
“An exuberant documentary.” LA Times
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines is presented in partnership with the Inner Truth Project, a nonprofit dedicated to survivors of sexual assault, alongside I’m Still Standing, an exhibition created in a collaboration between artists and survivors. Wonder Women! traces the fascinating birth, evolution, and legacy of Wonder Woman and introduces audiences to a dynamic group of fictional and real-life superheroines fighting for positive role models for girls, both on-screen and off.
The movie explores how our highly visual culture emphasizes the appearance of girls and women rather than their deeds, Wonder Women! urges women to claim the action genre — and media in general — as their own, if they want to change how they are represented.
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Tevye’s Daughters
Doors Open: 6 PM; Screening: 6:30 PM
An Emmy and Golden-Globe Nominated Ukrainian Film adapted from the story that inspired Fiddler on the Roof, currently raising funds for Ukrainian humanitarian aid.
Winner
Best Feature: Rhode Island International Film Festival
Audience Choice: Ukrainian Film Academy Awards
Best Cinematography: Treasure Coast International Film Festival
Join Director Vladimir Lert via Zoom for a Live Talkback to discuss the filmmaking process internationally as well as the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“Tevye’s Daughters” is an authentic tragicomedy. The screenplay is based on the famous play “Memorial Prayer” by Grigori Gorin.
The film was shot at historical locations in Ukraine.
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the Jewish shtetl of Anatovka, Jews and Christians are trying to live in peace and in accordance with their religious beliefs. Tevye, the milkman, struggles to support his wife and five daughters. He knows that their only way out of poverty is to make successful marital matches.
Celebrating Local Legends: Film Series Kickoff
The screening film series kicked off on June 23 at the Alliance Gallery with “That’s Livin’! The Zora Neale Hurston Story” a film by Jose Garofalo. This special one-night event honored Zora Neale Hurston and the Florida Highwaymen Painters, with proceeds benefiting the Zora Neale Hurston Florida Education Foundation. Audiences had the opportunity to pre-order the Official Florida Highwaymen License Plate which will help fund the Highwaymen Museum coming to Fort Pierce. An educational talkback with the filmmakers and experts on Zora followed the screening.