Songs Inside the Box   |   Documentary
Directed by: Max Shores
2008    |    58m   |    USA   |   www.songsinsidethebox.com

Songs Inside The Box is a documentary film that takes viewers to the world's largest concert of cigar box guitar music and provides a unique glimpse into a popular hobby and growing movement of self expression participants call the cigar box guitar revolution. You’ll meet the King of the Cigar Box Guitar and some of his troops from the front lines of the revolution. They’ve made musical instruments from things most people throw away and they’ve written songs inspired by the twanging sounds their treasured boxes produce. Along the way, they’ve discovered secrets hidden deep inside themselves that they couldn't have tapped into otherwise.

Screening Times: Victory Firehouse
Friday, 7:15 pm / Saturday, 7:15 pm

About the Director: Max Shores is a thirty-year veteran of documentary production. Through broadcast on Alabama Public Television and PBS stations nationwide, his documentaries have told compelling stories of life in the southeastern U.S.  Recent awards include Best Alabama Film and Best Professional Documentary from the 2007 George Lindsey UNA Film Festival, Best of Show and First Place Documentary from the 2007 Macon Film Festival, and Second Place Feature Documentary from the 2006 Tupelo Film Festival. As a producer-director at the University of Alabama Center for Public Television and Radio, Shores has what he calls, "the coolest job in the world."