Film series to screen 'Jamie Marks Is Dead'

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

“Jamie Marks Is Dead,” the film adapted by a novel written by Youngstown State University professor Christopher Barzak, will be screened twice Saturday as part of the Youngstown Cinema film series.

It will be shown at 5:45 and 8:45 p.m. in the lower level of M Gallery, 112 W. Commerce St., downtown. Tickets are $10 ($8 in advance at Joe Maxx coffee shop on East Federal Street).

The 2014 film, a finalist at the Sundance Film Festival, was directed by Carter Smith, who adapted it from Barzak’s 2007 novel “One for Sorrow.”

Set in Trumbull County and Youngstown, the film follows the ghost of Jamie Marks, a teenager that nobody really knew. Two high-school students develop a relationship with the spirit in an effort to help it.

It will be preceded at both screenings by the short film “R.F.B.G.,” by Kelsey Davis, a winner at the YSU Film Club’s 48hr Film Festival.