{"id":643465,"date":"2026-05-14T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T22:06:08","slug":"canton-to-host-free-screening-of-papertown-documentary-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/643465\/","title":{"rendered":"Canton to host free screening of &#8216;Papertown&#8217; documentary film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The town of Canton is inviting the public to a special screening of the documentary film \u201cPapertown\u201d before its world premiere.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/canton-mayor-paper-mill-closing-is-like-taking-a-piece-of-towns-soul-zeb-smathers-smokey-mountain-local-507-pactiv-evergreen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CANTON MAYOR: PAPER MILL CLOSING IS LIKE TAKING A PIECE OF TOWN&#8217;S SOUL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPapertown\u201d is a documentary about Canton\u2019s struggles in the wake of the sudden closure of the century-old paper mill at the heart of town.<\/p>\n<p>The film was made by award-winning director Jeremy Seifert and includes an original song by executive producer Dave Matthews of the Dave Matthews Band.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/demolition-canton-paper-mill-underway-pactiv-evergreen-sold-spirtas-worldwide-haywood-county-employeer-jobs-lost-lawsuit-helene-delay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DEMOLITION OF CENTURY-OLD CANTON PAPER MILL UNDERWAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The screening is scheduled for Saturday, May 17, at Sorrells Park from 6 to 8:30 p.m. The town said food trucks will be on-site starting at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The screening is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 The town of Canton is inviting the public to a special screening of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-643465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}