Southampton - "A Boy Called Dad," the story of a 14-year-old who unexpectedly becomes a father, will screen Monday, August 22, 5:30 p.m., at the Parrish Art Museum. The film is the final program of 'From Britain with Love,' the series of independent films curated by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and presented by UK Film Council and Emerging Pictures. Tickets are $5 for Parrish members, $7 for nonmembers.

"A Boy Called Dad" opens with two teenagers having sex against the dim lights of the New Brighton seafront. While the girl, Leanne, assures Robbie the sex is safe, she gives birth to Robbie's son nine months later, when he is only 14 years old. While Robbie at first wants nothing to do with the child, a chance meeting with his own father Joe, whom Robbie hasn't seen in 10 years, makes him reconsider.

Joe proves unreliable, and Robbie realizes he does not want to be the same kind of father to his own child. Seeing the baby with its mother and her abusive new boyfriend, Robbie decides to take action. Confrontation leads to violence, and Robbie snatches his baby son and goes on the run. Meanwhile an increasingly guilt-ridden Joe searches for Robbie. The search leads to a final confrontation between Joe and Robbie in which each is forced to face up to the past and to understand what it really means to be a father.

Director Brian Percival and screenwriter Julie Rutterford previously collaborated on the short film "About a Girl," which won a BAFTA for best short film and numerous other festival awards in 2001. This is Percival's first feature film. "A Boy Called Dad" is also the feature debut for Kyle Ward, who plays Robbie. Ian Hart (Joe) has appeared in many films, including "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," "Michael Collins," "The Butcher Boy," and "Wonderland."

"Artists Choose Artists" Celebrates Creativity On The East End

'Artists Choose Artists,' the Parrish Art Museum's second juried exhibition to encourage engagement and mentorship among local artists and to celebrate the region's endurance as an art colony, will open August 21 and remain on view through October 9.

For this exhibition, seven distinguished East End artists served as jurors, each making two selections from 200 online submissions and subsequent studio visits. The exhibition will include painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Associate Curator Andrea Grover coordinated the selection process with Curatorial Assistant Sam Bridger Carroll; she will install the exhibition with Alicia Longwell, Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Chief Curator, Art and Education.

An opening reception will be held Saturday, August 20, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. At 6 p.m., Parrish Director Terrie Sultan will introduce a 40-minute film shot edited by Andrea Grover from footage collected at the 14 selected artists' studios. A reception with wine, hors d'oeuvres, and live music will follow. Reservations are required for the 6 p.m. program. The film will be screened again Saturday, August 27, at 2 p.m.

The exhibition is comprised of work by the seven jurors and fourteen artists as follows:

 • Alice Aycock with Kryn Olson and Mike Solomon
 • Ross Bleckner with Renate Aller and Mary Ellen Bartley
 • Dan Rizzie with Ross Watts and Tad Wiley
 • Matthew Satz with Terry Elkins and Liliya Lifanova
 • Gary Simmons with Perry Burns and Melinda Hackett
 • Agathe Snow with Alice Hope and Nella Khanis
 • Frank Wimberley with Fulvio Massi and Julie Small-Gamby

Renate Aller has been photographing the Atlantic Ocean for a decade from the same viewpoint on Long Island's South Shore. Mary Ellen Bartley's close-up photographs of books play with abstraction and representation and the associations evoked by text and images. Perry Burns' paintings merge the traditions of Islamic patterning and Abstract Expressionism to cross boundaries of culture, history, religion, race, and ideology. Terry Elkins' paintings, often created 'en plein air,' embrace the rapidly disappearing landscape of the East End. Melinda Hackett's colorful, abstract paintings combine strong colors, densely layered surfaces, and whimsical organisms that seem to move across the picture plane. Invisible and natural forces, including magnetism and metal reactivity, are the mediums of Alice Hope's mixed media wall pieces. Nella Khanis paints with exuberant colors to transform the mundane into the extraordinary.

Working between art, theater, and material investigations, Liliya Lifanova's performance practice depends on research and collaboration over time, fused with her engagement with physical creation. Fulvio Massi's paintings proceed from sensations and mix figurative and abstract elements. Kryn Olson works with mixed media and acrylic on canvas to create images inspired by the unseen forces of nature. Julie Small-Gamby's mixed media works on canvas reflect her interest in materials and textures. Mike Solomon employs nylon net, resin, and fiberglass to create sinuous wall sculptures that reflect, in part, his passions for materials and surfing. Ross Watts works in different media to create witty, conceptual works that embrace ambiguity. Tad Wiley's oil-based enamel paintings on wood apply luminous color to abstract, architectural forms.

The presentation of Artists Choose Artists and its accompanying programs are made possible, in part, with generous underwriting support from Corcoran Group Real Estate. Additional support is provided by Helene B. Stevens, Brenda Earl, Nash Family Foundation, Liliane and Norman Peck, Jerome and Ellen Stern, Sharon and Jay Goldberg, and Elisabeth and Peter Haveles.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties, and the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.