December 2011
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The Director
Meredith Heil recently received her MA in Social Documentation from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Bloomington, IN where she is pursuing her PhD in Communication & Culture.
Meredith graduated from The Putney School in Putney, Vermont, an alternative boarding school located on a working dairy farm. After a short stint in San Francisco, she moved to...
Previous Screening Dates
May 27: NC Rising (Greensboro, NC) June 3: SheRAW (Long Beach, CA) June 9: Del Mar Theater (Santa Cruz, CA) June 10: Pink Sheep Festival (Wilmington, NC) June 21: 27 Social Centre w/ Boot & Rally, One Tough Cookie (Denver, CO) June 25: BitchFest (Charlotte, Tennessee) June 29: Quenchers w/ 8 Inch Betsy & The Ovens (Chicago, IL) July 1: Church Bar (Lakewood, OH) July 3: The Bishop...
Bring WD to Your College Campus
During the summer of 2011, Meredith Heil took Whistlin’ Dixie across the country on a DIY screening tour, projecting the film onto bedsheets and blank walls and directly reinvesting in the lo-fi community that made this project possible. During its summer tour, Whistlin’ Dixie screened alongside local and touring musicians, bringing queer bands together and helping to foster radical queer spaces...
Featuring
Humble Tripe
Midtown Dickens
Bellafea
Mount Moriah
Spooky Qs
Street Poet & Speak On It Ent.
Athens Boys Choir
Melissa York
Amy Ray
The Butchies
Pink Flag
About The Project
Many youth in the US come of age flipping through TV channels or scouring the internet in search of queer life. They are eventually drawn out of their small towns and into the “gay ghettos” of New York or San Francisco, motivated by a lack of queer visibility in their own hometown. Whistlin’ Dixie, however, seeks out folks at the forefront of the Southern queer music scene — living examples that...
Press & Links
Dir. Meredith Heil featured in WNPR’s The Faith Middleton Show
Scantron interviews director Meredith Heil on Homoground Podcast #020
Santa Cruz Good Times, “Screen Time”
Santa Cruz Sentinel: UCSC Documentaries Premiere at Del Mar Theater
Patch.com Feature: UCSC Students Show The Best Films Thursday
Radio Interview with Mark Gordon on Center Stage
indieWIRE’s Five...