The Olde North Charleston Picture House is beginning its second year with a shorts festival set for Saturday, January 16 at 7 pm.  The 90-minute event will be held at the South of Broadway Theater located at 1080 E. Montague.

The primary theme for this set of shorts is “stories of womanhood.” In collaboration with the Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, nine short films will be shown:

• Jiggle Jig: A woman who begins a diet is literally taunted by her Twinkies
• More Control: A music video
• Sunday Mornings:  One woman's Sunday routine of making breakfast and phoning her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's
• Swing: Animated story of an interview with a woman about seeing a lynching in her childhood
• Reverie: A young girl deals with an abusive parent and the impact on her family
• Gibbering Horror of Howard Ghormley: In the vein of Poe or Lovecraft stories
• Incubus: Cleverly animated story about a girl who is accosted by an evil entity in her dreams
• Unfettering the Falcons: Documentary about falcons--both the avian and Atlanta varieties
• The World, Naked as a Jaybird: Animated story about one girl's experience after the bomb goes off

Admission is $2 for members and $5 for non-members. Seating is limited to 75 persons.  For more information, visit on-line or phone 843.628.5534.

Following the films, there will be a discussion led by Tori Katherman and Andy Smith of the Nickelodeon Theater, which sponsors the annual Indie Grits Film Festival in Columbia. Smith says, “We are very excited to be bringing the best of Indie Grits to Charleston and we are hope to be able to attract more of the local filmmakers and enthusiasts to our festival.”

The Nickelodeon and the Olde North Charleston Picture House are the only two non-profit movie theaters in the state of South Carolina.