Film: Add a little Gingger to your life today

By Volcano Staff on August 24, 2011

DAY SIX OF THE 25 NEW FACES IN INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL >>>

By now you know the 14th edition of Filmmaker Magazine's annual look at the new, up-and-coming talent who are transforming the current film scene has been screening at The Grand Cinema since Friday. If you haven't heard yet, read our preview here.

Among the magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" is 20-something Gingger Shankar - she of musical family that includes Ravi Shankar and Norah Jones - who will introduce the film Homecoming at 2:15 p.m. today inside The Grand Cinema. Shankar provided the original music for the film, which tells the story of Estelle Szymanski, an Army medic who returns to her Central Florida home and reconnects with her community.

Also on the festival's docket today:

"Best Of" repeat screening at 4:30 p.m.
Alrick Brown's Kinyarwanda at 6:45 p.m.

[Grand Cinema, $6.50-$8.50, 606 S. Fawcett Ave., Tacoma, 253.593.4474]