RON SWARNER: INSIDE THE INDIE >>>

Movies always settle me. I have to sit still and listen, which seems to get harder and harder the older I get and the younger I act. Friday, local filmmakers will screen their imaginations as part of Pierce College’s Spring Film Festival.

The film that I will use only the edge of my seat to watch will be Inside the Indie, a full-length documentary on the singer-songwriter scene in Puget Sound. Kevin Defy, with collaborators Kurt Lindsay and Tabitha Neeley, peek inside the brains of such musicians as James Coates, Angela Jossy, Allan Boothe, Roy Douglas, Deborah Page, Voxxy Vallejo and many more.

The trailer hints to poignant, funny, and intimate sides of these real-life characters as they explain why they, night after night, play to crowds, often small, and many times loaded.

[Pierce College Fort Steilacoom, Friday, May 29, 7-9 p.m., free, 9401 Farwest Dr. S.W., Lakewood, 253.964.6659]

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