If you're 50 and older, you're invited to attend the free showing of five documentary short films that are part of the 21st Annual St. Louis International Film Festival. Mark your calendar for Nov. 12, 2012 at 5 p.m. and head for the Tivoli Theatre located at 6350 Delmar in University City. The event is sponsored by AARP Missouri.
For 87 minutes, attendees will be entertained and inspired by five documentaries that explore the issues of aging and persistence. For example, Rocky, an abandoned racehorse left to die in a field is rescued - miraculously recovers - and eventually stars in a Bob Hoskins movie.
Other shorts include:
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Bo: When attorney and Playboy photographer Bo Hitchcock is diagnosed with cancer, he decides to forgo chemo and Western medicine to pursue a cure in the jungles of Peru.
Mr. Christmas: A portrait of Bruce Mertz, who every Christmas lights up the neighborhood with the 50,000 lights covering his house.
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Past Their Prime: A look at the world of geriatric zoo animal care, focused on Colo – the oldest living gorilla in captivity – on her 55th birthday.
Sterling Hallard Bright Drake: Parsing the line between truth and memory, the film solves the mysteries surrounding one of the world’s most notorious and talked-about tombstones and meditates on the optimism of youth and mortal realities of aging.
The free series is on a first come, first served basis.