Fall Flicks Flash: Storm Lake

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society is pleased to announce a special event at Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware (UUSD) during the traditional RBIFF weekend. Four special films will be screened on Friday and Saturday (Nov.12 & 13), one at 10:30 am and another at 2 pm on both days. During these two days, UUSD will hold its popular quality craft show plus offer packaged baked goods and home-made soups for purchase. Storm Lake is a charming documentary about a family-run community newspaper. Meet the Cullens — Iowa’s most impressive journalism family. For more than 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Art Cullen, brother John, son Tom, wife Dolores, and sister-in-law Mary — plus Art’s dog, Peach the newshound — have published The Storm Lake Times, a small-town, twice-weekly newspaper that covers critically important local issues and serves as the glue that holds the town together. But, against the backdrop of a collapsing journalism ecosystem and a crushing pandemic, how can the paper avoid the fate of so many other newspapers? In directors Beth Levison and Jerry Risius’s film, we see the Cullens hard at work, battling the odds and sometimes each other, as they meet the moment, one deadline at a time. [2021, US, 85 min, Rated: NR] Venue: Unitarian Universalists of Southern Delaware. Presenter: Rehoboth Beach Film Society.