PRESS RELEASE
WINNER OF THE 2008 SIDEWALK FILM FESTIVAL AT CAPRI THEATRE |
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Cook County, the winner for Best Feature at Birmingham's 2008 Sidewalk Film Festival will have a one show only screening at the Capri Theatre in Montgomery on Saturday, October 3 at 7:00pm. Cook County director David Pomes will be at the Capri Theatre to introduce the film and take questions from the audience afterwards. Cook County is the story of three generations of meth addicts living in the piney woods of East Texas. Living in a small town and amongst a house full of crystal meth abusers, seventeen year-old Abe (Ryan Donowho) wrestles to beat an addiction to meth and struggles to protect himself and his young niece from an abusive Uncle Bump (Anson Mount). When Sonny (Xander Berkeley) returns home from prison seeking redemption from his son, Abe, the two must navigate the treacherous waters created by Bump, who will do almost anything to maintain a dangerous lifestyle fueled by crystal meth. Unlike any other movie, Cook County unflinchingly tells a raw and real story of rural life where crystal meth dictates the family dynamic. Besides the Sidewalk Film Festival, Cook County won Audience Awards at the Nashville and South By South West film festivals, a Jury Award at the AFI Dallas Festival and Best Feature at the Hollywood Film Festival. This is writer/director David Pomes first feature film.David Pomes is from Houston, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1991. He received his JD from Texas Tech University, School of Law in 1996. For the following ten years David practiced law in Dallas and Houston. During the final year of his legal career, he wrote the script for "Cook County" and soon after quit the practice of law. The Capri Theatre is located at 1045 E Fairview Ave in Montgomery, AL. For more information call the theatre at 334.262.4858 or visit online at http://capritheatre.org. Cook County website: http://cookcountythemovie.com/ ### -- Martin McCaffery |
