August 8th @ 10AM CT Film Is Live on Kinema through August 12th

August 10th @ 10AM CT: Eva Gourdoux Live Zoom Discussion (Zoom Link Sent Separately On August 8th)

Whether you're new to William Faulkner and his works or an avid follower of his work - we invite you to check out the award-winning film 

. This documentary film shares William Faulkner's upbringing, the struggles and achievements he ran into and how all of this culminated into one of the most relevant and important figures in American literature. As we've screened these films, we are traveling around the world to see how Faulkner has influenced global cultures from France to Japan to Russia and beyond.

This film will be viewable from August 8th to August 10th to allow our audience to check out the film ahead of a live Q&A (on Zoom) with our French Faulkner Scholar Eva Gourfoux

 (University of Toulouse) where she has been a temporary member of the 

the dynamics of seclusion in the works of William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty.

After a first master’s thesis dedicated to 

regionalism-universalism dynamics in Flannery O’Connor’s short stories.

 – two topics she had already begun to tackle in her second thesis – and she decided to work on three canonical Southern writers, namely 

William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty.

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Yoknapatawpha Productions

Narrated by Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts, this internationally acclaimed documentary explores the life and works of Nobel-prize writer William Faulkner who has not only shaped the American literary canon but also conversations about race, civil rights and community in the United States and abroad. 

Faulkner: The Past is Never Dead