The Paul Green Foundation and EbzB Productions bring to Greenville a one-day film festival celebrating North Carolina’s preeminent playwright Paul Green, author of The Lost Colony, which has been performed in Manteo every summer since 1937 (excluding WWII blackout and COVID isolation summers).

The event includes a double feature: the PBS documentary The Playmaker: The Story of Paul Green and the film The Problem of the Hero, based on the play Native by Ian Finley about the collaboration between Green and Native Son author Richard Wright as they adapted Wright’s novel Native Son for an Orson Welles Broadway production.

This event, hosted by the North Carolina Literary Review, is free and open to the public and will include a 45-minute intermission and snack break between films. People are welcome to attend both or either.

Screening of the documentary, The Playmaker: The Story of Paul Green, will begin at 1 p.m., and the film, The Problem of the Hero, at 3:15 p.m.

A discussion with the filmmakers and actors; editors of the new collection of essays Paul Green: North Carolina Writers on the Legacy of the State's Most Celebrated Playwright, Georgann Eubanks and Margaret Bauer; and Eastern NC playwrights Jim Grimsley and Ian Finley will immediately follow the movie screening.

Watch a preview of PBS North Carolina’s The Playmaker here.

Watch a preview of The Problem of the Hero here.