The Covey Film Festival is not just an opportunity to sit down and eat popcorn while watching the big screen. It acknowledges that film is now recognized as a major cultural visual art form in the same league as dance, theatre, and fine art. Thomasville is unique in the film industry due to its involvement in film production as well as the number of people with ties to the area currently active in the film world. The Festival itself is a vehicle to entertain, educate and engage audiences through the screening of over twenty acclaimed films—in addidtion to special events and pop-ups—during Covey’s seventh season in October.

The Festival is also the signature fundraising event for the Thomasville Community Resource Center which for twenty years has provided services to children, their families, and the community. All net proceeds return to TCRC for services (like the STEAM—science, technology, engineering, arts, math—program) for 500 children and their parents in ten sites in Thomas, Mitchell, and Grady Counties.

Schedule of Events

January 21, 2025

6:00pm: Devouring Beauties/Young Fires/Path Of The Panther At  Tall Timbers

Kick off the Covey Film Festival with an evening of films about nature and the efforts to protect it.

Devouring Beauties follows a team of botanists and conservationists as they rescue and relocate imperiled pitcherplants - all while guarding them from greedy poachers. Young Fires is a short award-winning trailer about the future of fire lighting. Path of the Panther works to inspire the conservation of the land the Florida panther needs to survive - the Florida Wildlife Corridor - which serves both humans and wildlife. Join us to learn more about the efforts to expand wildlife corridors throughout northern Florida.

Kick off the Covey Film Festival with an evening of films about nature and the efforts to protect it.

Devouring Beauties follows a team of botanists and conservationists as they rescue and relocate imperiled pitcherplants — all while guarding them from greedy poachers. Young Fires is a short award-winning trailer about the future of fire lighting. Path of the Panther works to inspire the conservation of the land the Florida panther needs to survive – the Florida Wildlife Corridor – which serves both humans and wildlife. Join us to learn more about the efforts to expand wildlife corridors throughout northern Florida.

Admission is $10.00

January 22, 2025

6:30pm: Widow Clicquot At Covey Nest

Based on the true story of the “Grande Dame of Champagne”, Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin (1777-1866) who, at the age of 20, became Madame C!icquot after marrying the scion of a winemaking family. She defies her critics and revolutionizes the champagne industry to become one of the world’s first great entrepreneurs.

January 23, 2025

6:30pm: THE TASTE OF THINGS at Covey Nest

Set in France in 1889, Simmering passions between a master chef and his longtime partner bubble over in this sumptuous award-winning period love story. The film follows the life of Dodin Bouffant as a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugenie. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance.

January 24, 2025

6:30pm: FOUR DAUGHTERS
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters’ life stories.

January 25, 2025

10am: INSIDE OUT 2
Newly minted teenager Riley undergoes a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up.

2pm: MADELINE
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she’s also fantastic in solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell Madeline’s school.

6:30pm: ZONE OF INTEREST
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp. For Rudolf Hoss, life is good. He lives in a big house in the country with his wife and five children, whom he dotes on. He has several servants. He has his dream job and is very good at it, leading a very large team and garnering praise from peers and superiors alike. His job? He’s the commandant at Auschwitz.

January 28, 2025

6:30pm: FUNNY FACE

An impromptu fashion shoot at a bookstore brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. Fashion photographer Dick Avery, in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore where he discovers Jo in the background of one shot.

January 29, 2025

6:30pm: VALENTINO:  THE LAST EMPEROR

A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he’s always in pursuit of beauty. We’re in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears.

January 30, 2025

6:30pm: MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS
In partnership with the House of Dior, this film tells the story of a widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London who falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress and decides that she must have one of her own. She embarks on an adventure to Paris which will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.

January 31, 2025

6:30pm: YVES SAINT LAURENT  —  STYLE IS ETERNAL
A look at the life of French designer Yves Saint-Laurent from the beginning of his career in 1958 when he met his lover and business partner, Pierre Berge. Three years later, the two founded the Yves Saint Laurent Company, which rapidly became one of the biggest luxury powerhouses on the planet.

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

2:00PM: COCO CHANEL
A rags-to-riches tale charting the rise of one of the most influential fashion icons of the 20th century. From her humble childhood in a French orphanage, through her early days as a young dressmaker’s assistant, and ultimately to her success as a pioneering icon, “Coco Chanel” is the story of a glamorous woman.

6:30pm: DIOR AND I
Dior and I brings the viewer inside the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house with a privileged, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Raf Simons’ first haute couture collection as its new artistic director-a true labor of love created by a dedicated group of collaborators. Melding the everyday, pressure-filled components of fashion with mysterious echoes from the iconic brand’s past, the film is also a colorful homage to the seamstresses who serve Simons’ vision.

Date:
January 21 - February 1, 2025

Location:
The Covey Nest, 210 W Jackson Street, Thomasville, GA 31792

Admission is $10.00

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