The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Nolte, an English Department faculty member and co-founder of the filmmaking collective Brainwrap Productions.
The award-winning 2013 short Trace Around Your Heart, described by Nolte as “a romantic comedy featuring a puppet,” tells the story of Trace Cherokee, who has grown comfortable living in obscurity as a country music has-been. When his former song-writing partner, Sasha Colette, asks him to reunite for a one-night performance, he finally has to confront his crippling stage terrors. The film contains some profanity and drug use.
Also being shown are the dark comedy Hickory High Lift and an installment of Seth Martin and Friends. Seth Martin and Friends began as a sketch comedy project created for YouTube and public access television. It focuses on Seth Martin, who is the reluctant caretaker to a group of puppet characters.
During the screening, Nolte will discuss zero-budget filmmaking as well as the Screenwriting course he developed and will be teaching through the English Department during the spring 2016 semester.
For more information about the screening, contact Walter Squire at squirew@marshall.edu.