First Run Features has acquired North American rights to Godfrey Cheshire's* autobiographical Southern plantation docu "Moving Midway" [shot in Wake County, North Carolina].

The former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, Cheshire's the film premiered at this spring's New Director/New Films fest and chronicles the relocation of his family's North Carolina plantation, Midway, and their doscovery of African-American relatives.

"Moving Midway" will be released in New York on Sept. 12, followed by a national platform release.

*Godfrey Cheshire (Director, Writer, Producer) is an award-winning film critic based in New York City. A native of Raleigh,North Carolina, he co-founded Raleigh's Spectator Magazine and began writing film criticism professionally in 1978. Since moving to New York in 1991, he has written for numerous national and international publications including The New York Times, Variety, The Village Voice, New York Press, Interview, Film Comment, Oxford American, and The Independent Weekly. His areas of special interest include cinematic representations of the South, Iranian film, and the transition to digital technology. A former chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle, he has twice received awards for best arts criticism from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.

For More Information

"Moving Midway": Official site

Moving Midway, LLC
Capitol Station
Box 27612
Raleigh, NC 27611-7612
919.833.5454