
“Gunfighter Paradise” Screening + Q&A with Jethro Waters ’13
A North Carolina-set independent psychological thriller follows a hunter confronting mysterious visitors and unsettling visions after returning home. Stay for a filmmaker Q&A about the film and Jethro Waters’s creative work.
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