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By Mark Shaffer
Each year we reach out to a group of filmmakers via email to get the story behind their films and find out why the Beaufort International Film Festival is such an important stop. This year a trio of directors in the Feature Film Category responded. Malindi Fickle’s Suck it up, Buttercupcomes to Beaufort by way of Hawaii with a trail of film festival success in its wake while Tim Driscoll’s The Lengthsbarely made it out of the editing room in time for the submission deadline. Making the cut was especially sweet for Greenville, SC filmmaker Chris White. He writes that his Cinema Purgatoriois “about an indie filmmaking couple who never seem to catch a break at film festivals—a plot inspired by previous experiences. So actually being accepted at BIFF is a real thrill. I am so glad that my life has finally stopped imitating my art.”
Lowcountry Weekly: BIFF’s pretty small but we tend to get a lot of word-of-mouth. How did you find out about us?
Fickle: At a festival last spring, I met a wonderful filmmaker who had just attended BIFF and she highly recommended the festival – she said it was one of the best festival experiences she’s ever had.
White: When we were shooting in Charleston during the late summer of 2013, my wife Emily (c
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Malindi Fickle had quite the time finishing her first feature. She spent over three years molding her vision. But if her accolades are any indication, the work seems to have paid off.
We had a chance to ask Fickle a few questions about the daunting post production process and how the film took shape.
STXscene: Tell us a little bit about “Suck It Up Buttercup.”
Malindi Fickle: When people ask me what “Suck It Up Buttercup” is about I tell them, in a nutshell, a family’s struggle with addiction and denial.
It takes place over the course of a single night. When the story begins, teenager Jackie (Buttercup) is at the top of the addiction slide; everyone around her, herself included, is in denial about the severity and extent of her problem. By the end of the film, after everyone in her life suffers as a result of her actions, denial is no longer an option.
STX: What drove you to make this film?
MF: I enjoy making films about the extraordinary in the ordinary; I focus on the every man and woman, if you will. I look for compelling stories that investigate the human spirit that capture the vulnerability and fragility of the human condition. I like to look for and reveal the uncomfortable, simple truths of society: politics, love,
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