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‘Merry Graingers’

will debut

at Bing

A movie featuring St. John’s Christmas parade and other parts of Whitman County premieres Dec. 10 at the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane.

Serena Belsby wrote, produced and directed “The Merry Graingers,” that was filmed throughout Whitman and south Spokane counties.

The Christmas family story involves a mysterious death, a feisty city girl, a Cuban lover and a dysfunctional quirky family all thrown together deep in the heart of the Palouse.

Belsby is a Sundance Lab alumni and grand prize winner of the Hartley Merrill Award from the Cannes Film Festival. She...