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Posted: 2/4/2010
Trailer for the documentary Poinciana Sunrise, which screened at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival.
As filled with inspiration as it is with art, Poinciana Sunrise reveals the life and spirit of the Queen of the Road , the only female member of The Highwaymen, a group of African-American Florida artists who created a beautiful and historic record of landscapes now lost to developers and modernization. Director Chuck Gomez gives us access to the amazing Mary Ann Carroll who, as a member of The Highwaymen, sold her paintings door to door, on highways, and on street corners to help raise seven children as a single parent. During the turbulent, racially-heated 60s when no gallery would take their work, they used initiative and pure salesmanship to sell their art. What they struggled to sell for forty dollars a that time, today can bring up to twenty thousand and has earned the group a place in the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in Tallahassee. Ms. Carroll continues to paint and is now a fou watch
A special webisode for Mary and Max entitled "Steve, The Runner". A look Stephen Carroll, the runner, and all that he does in the day. watch
While waiting at a hospital, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derrick) is mistaken for the Duke (Clinton Derricks-Carroll) by the pregnant Duchess Danielle (Victoria Mahoney). Thinking she needs a transfusion, he goes into surgery with her. Only later do Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) and Wade (Sabrina Lloyd) find out that it's not a transfusion, but a transference of the fetus. A news report declares the situation, stating that the real Duke Rembrandt has been missing. Quinn sneaks into the operating room to warn Rembrandt, but he's been sedated. Quinn is grabbed by the Duchess' aide, Lady Mary (Hallie Foote), and the Lady's nephew, George Stellos (Dan Gauthier), head of Palace security. Arturo (John Rhys-Davies) intercedes, saying they are the Duke's new assistants. Later, at the palace, the Sliders visit Rembrandt as he awakens. Arturo explains how an epidemic destroyed women's ability to complete the pregnancy, and how once men take the fetus, gestation speeds up. watch
