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Filmmaker Tim Kirkman Returns To NC With A Tale Of Middle-Age Regret

Twenty years ago openly-gay North Carolina filmmaker produced a narrative documentary in the style of an open-letter to former Sen. Jesse Helms. The Emmy-nominated “,” featured a wide range of interviews, serving to bring humanity to gay voices in the state. Kirkman returns to the North Carolina to screen his latest work “,” a movie reuniting two long-lost lovers for a weekend at Joshua Tree. It explores the angst of mid-life through the drama of a tangled relationship.

Kirkman joins host Frank Stasio to trace his career from watching late Jesse Helms denounce him from the Senate floor to his more recent filmmaking work. “Lazy Eye” on the campus of North Carolina State University Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.

 

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's app Director.
Dana is an award-winning producer who began as a personality at Rock 92. Once she started creating content for morning shows, she developed a love for producing. Dana has written and produced for local and syndicated commercial radio for over a decade. app is her debut into public radio and she’s excited to tell deeper, richer stories.
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