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

By Frank Stasio,
Dana Terry
Published April 27, 2018 at 12:39 PM EDT
still from the movie, both men lounging near a pool in the desert
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Aaron Costa Ganis and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe as ex-lovers in 'Lazy Eye.'
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Tim Kirkman is a filmmaker and native of Monroe, N.C.
Aaron Jay Young

Twenty years ago openly-gay North Carolina filmmaker Tim Kirkman produced a narrative documentary in the style of an open-letter to former Sen. Jesse Helms. The Emmy-nominated “Dear Jesse,” 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 “Lazy Eye,” 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” screens at The James B. Hunt Jr. Library on the campus of North Carolina State University Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m.

 

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Frank Stasio
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 News Director.
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Dana Terry
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. WUNC is her debut into public radio and she’s excited to tell deeper, richer stories.
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