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AIFF 2012 Artwork Welcome n 4–5 Original artwork donated by Ashland artist Anahata Katkin of PAPAYA! Inc. Sponsors & Grantors n 6–7 To learn more and see additional works please visit papayaart.com and between films stop by Papaya! Living Parties n 9 at 33 North Main Street on the Plaza. Artistic Achievement Program layout by David Ruppe, Impact Publications Award n 10

Rogue Award n 11 Venues Free Festival Events n 13 Free Film Programs n 14–15

Family Films n 17

Documentaries n 18–45

Features n 46–55

Shorts n 56–75

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The AIFF Team n 78–81

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Film Index n 88 box office & membership Box Office Tickets

Films & Conversations* box office Online: ashlandfilm.org No service fee thanks to Project A! n General $12; Seniors (62+) $11; Students (w/valid ID at door) $6; Oregon Trail Card Holders $5 Pre-sale: Tickets/Will Call: n Locals Only Film Programs: free (ticket required) Plaza Kiosk, Downtown Ashland *Special Event Pricing: Essential Transformation: Hours: 3–6p daily, March 20–April 11 In Conversation with Julie Taymor Members only—beginning: Members/Senior/Student: $12; General: $16 n Executive Producer: March 20 n Producer: March 20 Forums &

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AIFF Gear AVAILABLE AT VARSITY THEATRE DURING THE FESTIVAL Concessions n Tee-shirt: $20 Varsity Theatre Historic Ashland Armory n Baseball Hat (organic cotton): $20 n Movie Theatre n Water Street Café: wraps and more n Aluminum Water Bottle (BPA-free): $10 Favorites n Rogue Valley Roasting Company: n Poster: $5 sweet treats n Button: $1 n Yogi Tea n Noble Coffee Roasting welcome FINNEY RORY BY PHOTO From the Governor of the State of Oregon From the Mayor of the City of Ashland Welcome to the 11th annual ashland Welcome to the City of Ashland and independent film festival. In Oregon to the 11th season of the ashland we’re proud to not only play host to this independent film festival. Over the world-class film festival, but to past eleven years, the AIFF has grown increasingly be called home for this into a significant cultural and

welcome shining industry, and the creative economic force in our region while professionals it brings from all over the still maintaining an intimate festival world. experience. If you’re a filmmaker, let me remind The festival’s programming celebrates you of the opportunity to choose Oregon for your next the art of independent film as an artistic statement of project. Here you will find world-class directors, animators independent thought, invoking and inspiring dialogue 4 and commercial producers. Oregon has a wide array of on key issues that face our world: theatre, art, religion, professional support services, state-of-the-art facilities and racism, nuclear energy, healthcare, the economy, the an extraordinarily diverse range of locations to choose impact of war. . . and more. from. Moreover, our state has incentive programs to help Ashland is home not only to the people who physically get your project off the ground. To learn more, please visit inhabit these 4 1/2 square miles in the Rogue Valley of my Office of Film and Television at: oregonfilm.org. Southern Oregon but also to those who join us in In addition to the ashland independent film festival, I hope creative ventures of all kinds. Come home to Ashland you have a chance to discover Oregon, its wonderful and the Festival every year, for intellectual and artistic scenery, its talented and friendly people, and the engagement, for self-renewal and to share in changing exceptional value it has to offer. the world. Welcome to Oregon, With warm regards,

JOHN A. KITZHABER, M.D., Governor, State of Oregon JOHN STROMBERG, Mayor, City of Ashland

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As we begin our second decade, the Board of Directors Ticket sales and membership each account for less than and Staff of the film festival are committed to: 25% of our revenue. To ensure the long-term success of the festival, we increasingly rely on individual n Bringing a unique cultural experience and donations from supporters like you. community dialogue to Southern Oregon; We hope you will consider a tax-deductible donation n Generating income to support our local economy; to support the non-profit ashland independent film n Developing educational programs that both nurture festival. Visit ashlandfilm.org/donate for more a new generation of filmmakers and foster a deeper information. understanding of issues facing our world today. We appreciate your support! From the Executive Director From the President of the Board of Directors And so begins the second decade of the Welcome, once again, to five of ashland independent film festival! I am the most thought provoking, thrilled to be here, and build upon the intense, joyous, heart wrenching, strong foundation laid by my community building and other - predecessor, Tom Olbrich. On behalf of wise fabulous days a person could the festival, I offer heartfelt thanks to possibly experience, the ashland YOU — our incredible corps of filmgoers, independent film festival. filmmakers, volunteers, members, If you are new to the festival you sponsors, donors, and advertisers. You are in for a real treat. If you’ve make our community celebration possible. been before you’ll know exactly what I’m talking Over the next five days, we invite you to immerse yourself about. Independent film has a way of transporting in the uniquely creative art form that is independent film. you in and of itself, but to immerse yourself in it at From thought-provoking documentaries, to genre-bending the festival can be positively transformative. independent features, to once-in-a-lifetime conversations, Watching the films, meeting and listening to the we hope our program ignites your own creativity and opens filmmakers tell their stories, engaging in welcome new windows onto our world and community. As you conversation with friends and strangers about the pause between screenings, take time to savor the culinary films and attending the parties, receptions and and artistic cornucopia that surrounds us in Southern filmmaker TALKback events all combine to make Oregon. It’s a magical place. what has become my favorite five days of the year. If you like what you experience here in Ashland, tell a I asked a recent new festival member what brought friend (or two)! And please join us for our year-round her to the decision to participate this year. She said programming events and at the 12th annual AIFF, April that she just had to see for herself what all the 4–8, 2013. commotion was about in downtown Ashland in April each year. She said she has seen the lines in ANNE ASHBEY PIEROTTI, Executive Director front of the Varsity Theatre and felt as if she were missing out on something really special. She couldn’t have been more right. This festival is very, From the Director of Programming very special. 5 While on the red carpet at the Again, I welcome you to the 11th annual ashland Independent Spirit Awards recently, AIFF independent film festival. If you are not a member alumni filmmaker Adam Reid said: you should consider it. The benefits are abundant “Ashland, Oregon has an amazing and you’ll be helping us to ensure that this “very, festival...The audiences are simply the very special” festival will be around for years to most generous I’ve ever encountered. At come. our Q&A the film ended and...everyone stayed in their seats! Not a single person ED MCNULTY, Board President got up and I was like ‘where am I? I’m in filmmaker heaven!’” A focus of our festival is connecting exceptional artists with great audiences, and thanks to all for helping to make this endeavor a huge success! AIFF Goes Green The 2012 AIFF offers many opportunities for interaction with We are committed to decreasing our environmental filmmakers, and a slate of 94 films with considerable impact. This program is printed on 30% recycled diversity. There are works that investigate urgent issues of the paper stock and we subscribe to the 3 Rs— day on an epic scale, and those whose exploration is of an Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. intimate and personal nature—and sometimes both in the Please help us in this effort: bring your own same film. Filmmakers bring us compelling stories from all water bottle to fill at the venues, and recycle over the world, and some from right here in Ashland, and whenever possible. Forgot your water bottle? they challenge, inspire, delight, and move us. We hope you BPA-free AIFF aluminum water bottles are will join us for a panel discussion, a special event, and a film, available for purchase at the Varsity Theatre and or five, and experience a slice of our cinematic paradise. the Historic Ashland Armory during the festival. JOANNE FEINBERG, Director of Programming sponsors & grantors

Contributing Sponsors Community Sponsors 38 Central Restaurant & Wine Bar Avista Utilities AZ Catering & Event Planning Blackstone Audio, Inc. Bloomsbury Books Café 116 Cucina Biazzi Hana Sushi Loft American Brasserie & Bar grantors Mix Sweet Shop & Paydogs Rogue Valley Roasting Company

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parties Opening Night Bash Rogue Creamery’s Savor the Rogue Tasting Thursday, April 12, 7:30–10:30p Ashland Springs Hotel Tickets: $30 Enjoy an evening of hand-crafted delights and meet the filmmakers of the 11th annual festival! Savor the Rogue presents the Rogue Creamery’s internationally award winning cheeses alongside artisan chocolate meat, fruit, beer and wine from Southern Oregon. Live music (jazz, folk and original compositions) by The Grey Fox. parties PHOTO BY RORY FINNEY Artisan Food and Beverage Providers: Buttercloud Bakery Noble Coffee Roasting Cliff Creek Cellars Organic Nation-Pure Spirits Dagoba Organic Chocolate Rogue Ales Donate Fruit Rogue Creamery Gary West Smoked Meats South Stage Cellars Harry & David SunStone Artisan Bakery Lillie Belle Farms Handmade Chocolates Weisingers of Ashland PHOTO BY RORY FINNEY Marshmallow Heaven 9 Awards Celebration Sunday, April 15, 7:30–11p Historic Ashland Armory Tickets: $75 / includes dinner, dessert and drinks* v Celebrate the best of the 2012 festival and the best of the Rogue Valley’s culinary treats with food and drink from some of the area’s finest establishments. 12 juried and audience awards will be presented

with clips of the films in each category. Acclaimed film PHOTO BY KIERAN HENTHORN director Ondi Timoner will receive the Rogue Award (p11), and the Artistic Achievement Award will be presented to award winning film and theatre director Julie Taymor (p10). The AIFF Award: Denis Debey, Dinner: Dessert and Coffee: Ashland’s 38 Central Restaurant & Wine Bar Buttercloud Bakery blacksmith for 30 AZ Catering & Event Planning Café 116 years, designed and handcrafted the Cucina Biazzi Mix Sweet Shop forged steel film Hana Sushi Noble Coffee Roasting replica mounted on Hong Kong Bar Sweet Desire a black walnut wood base. Loft American Brasserie & Bar Bar: New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro Stella Artois Smithfields Restaurant and Bar South Stage Cellars · Caldera Brewing SunStone Artisan Bakery The Opening Night Bash and and other local wineries Tabu Awards Celebration produced by: Thai Pepper Satay Bar *Your first two drinks are on the house! AZ Catering & Event Planning azparties.com artistic achievement award Julie Taymor

Julie Taymor has been hailed as one of the most imaginative and provocative directors working in the arts today. Most widely recognized for her theatrical production of The Lion King which opened on Broadway in 1997, it earned her the distinction of being the first woman to receive Tony Awards for Best Direction of a Musical and for her original costume designs for the production. Taymor is also the director, co- book writer and mask designer for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Broadway’s hit rock musical. Taymor made her feature film directorial debut in 1999 with Titus, a daring adaptation of Shakespeare’s play starring Anthony Hopkins. Her films also include Across the Universe, with 35 Beatles songs and performances by Bono, Joe Cocker, and Salma Hayek; the Academy Award winning Frida, a biography of the iconic Mexican artist Frida Kahlo; and The Tempest, a bold reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s epic with artistic achievement award achievement artistic Helen Mirren.

The Tempest will be screened Friday, April 13, 12n (p54) Across the Universe will be screened Sunday, April 15, 12n (p46) Julie Taymor will be present for Q&As following the films. “For me the joy of making a piece of art— 10 whether it is a film, a play or an opera—is the experimentation in the process of the realization. It is thrilling to challenge Essential Transformation: yourself, your collaborators and the audience In Conversation with Julie Taymor in how you tell the story. . . People will Friday, April 13, 6p always want you to repeat yourself and give Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch will join them what they already know or love. You the multi-talented director on-stage in a wide-ranging and lively have to give them what they don’t know they discussion. Sharing behind-the-scenes footage, Taymor will want. Walk a tightrope—it’s a thrill.” provide a rare opportunity to learn about her unique process of Julie Taymor adapting existing works to new mediums—whether Shakespearean plays, The Beatles’ songs, or a Disney movie. A Q&A with the audience will follow.

The Tempest rogue award Ondi Timoner

“It’s the job of the filmmaker to find the form that the film wants to take, it’s bigger than we are, and we must help it into existence.” Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice.

The 2012 Rogue Award honors this fiercely independent, rogue award ground-breaking, genre-bending filmmaker who boldly carries the torch of cinema vérité documentary tradition into the present.

Timoner uses her camera as a bridge to bring her audience deep into worlds they may never otherwise enter: from cults (Join Us) to climate change (Cool It), rock and roll (DIG! 2005 AIFF) and technology (We Live in Public 2012 AIFF). The latter two films are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Having made dramatic documentaries with strong story lines, Timoner is transitioning to features with the upcoming Mapplethorpe. Starring James Franco, the film follows the extraordinary and complex life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, famous for his Breaking Boundaries: stylized black-and-white photos and stark celebrity A Conversation with Ondi Timoner 11 portraits. Timoner attended the Sundance Director and Screenwriter Labs in 2010 to develop Mapplethorpe, Saturday, April 14, 6p slated to shoot this spring. AJ Schnack, the founder of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking, an AIFF We Live In Public will be screened Friday, April 13, 9p (p45) alum filmmaker (Convention, 2010 AIFF) and Ondi Timoner will be present for a Q&A following the a 2012 AIFF juror will join Timoner on stage screening. for a vibrant discussion illustrated with clips from her films. She will provide unique insight into her creative process and how her documentary background will inform her narrative filmmaking in her upcoming biopic of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe starring James Franco.

Timoner co-hosts the weekly web series BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc), exploring the creative process and the business realities of producing and distributing films with guest documentary filmmakers. She will tape a live episode at the Saturday filmmaker TALKback forum (p13).

We Live in Public free festival events

Filmmaker TALKback Forums It’s Personal Friday, April 13, 10–11:30a Ashland Springs Hotel Ballroom

Feature filmmakers talk about drawing on life experience to free festival events Tickets: free (ticket required due to limited seating) shape their intimate and personal narratives, and how their first hand stories translate to the screen. Made possible by an Art Works grant from the Moderator Warren Etheredge is founder and host of The National Endowment for the Arts Warren Report and the weekly TV show The High Bar. “Smarter audiences make a better world.” BYOD: Bring Your Own Doc Saturday, April 14, 10–11:30a Delve deep into the creative process of making non-fiction films as documentary filmmakers share insights into their filmic endeavors with Ondi Timoner, creator and host of the web series BYOD, as she tapes a live episode. Moderator Ondi Timoner is an award winning filmmaker, recipient of the 2012 AIFF Rogue Award and director of the documentary We Live in Public (p45). After the Credits Roll: Docs in Action Sunday, April 15, 10–11:30a How often do you leave a powerful documentary and say “I have to do something” but don’t know how to translate that impulse into engagement? Hear from filmmakers who are developing outreach plans to turn audience engagement into effective action. 13 Wait! Don’t leave just yet. Many filmmakers will be present after the screenings of their films so make sure Moderator Claudia Puig is USA Today’s film critic and a regular you don’t miss out on these interactive Q&As! contributor to National Public Radio’s Film Week. She is a 2012 AIFF Feature Length Documentary juror.

afterLOUNGE Nightly 5p-1a No cover charge See map on p1 for addresses

Thursday, April 12: Hong Kong Bar Friday, April 13: Thai Pepper Satay Bar Saturday, April 14: Tabu Sunday, April 15: Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant

New in 2012, a different restaurant will host the AIFF afterparty every night. Engage with the filmmaker who made your new favorite film, debate about what “independent” means, find out which film you need to see, or just hang with friends for a cocktail and a meal. After your show, come join us at the AIFF afterLOUNGE! free film programs

Locals Only 1 A Poem for Dick 4 minutes n Mo Costello, 70 minutes (includes presentation) n Sunday, April 15, 9:30a Sangye Ince-Johannsen Historic Ashland Armory n Family-friendly (age 5+) n highlights the Ashland Launch Regional Student Film Competition—AIFF’s annual Southern Oregon University educational platform for our youngest filmmakers to share their stories Launch College honorable mention This visual poem asks: “If you Don’t Eat Something were asked to write a great If You Don’t Know What It Is! basketball screenplay, what 5 minutes would you write?” Sergei Boutenko n Ashland Robot Love An educational rap about the perils of eating unknown plants 4 minutes showcased in a hip-hop inspired Ross Williams n Talent music video. The story of a robot’s crush on a young woman is told How Was Your Day? in reverse. 5 minutes free film programs film free Ethan Page, Samuel Wimmer Ashland Middle School Sometimes Children Launch grades K–8 winner Have To Make Waves As two boys are dropped off at 5 minutes school, parents should ask Annabel Allen n Ashland themselves, “What do they do at Every Monday morning when school all day?” there is frost, a class of children 14 creates their own waves when Kato’s Challenge no one is watching. 9 minutes Rick Shaw n Ashland The Spirit Behind Ashland Middle School students Bowmer in the Park find their friendships tested 14 minutes amidst bullying, alienation and Cici Brown n Ashland peer pressure. When a cracked beam closed the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Bowmer Theatre, the community Paragon came together to exemplify: “the 5 minutes show must go on!” Ryan Pfeil n Phoenix A young man meticulously Super Sledder prepares himself for a date. 2 minutes n Alec Meyers When was the last time you felt Ashland Middle School a love like this? Launch grades K-8 honorable mention This stop-motion animation Petrichor follows a sled ride that becomes 5 minutes a magical journey. Stacey Katlain Lane Community College Launch College winner Tag! A cerebral modern dance film 4 minutes n Eli Turner which explores the intimate Ashland High School relationship between Launch grades 9–12 winner environment and self. Adults quickly become children when reminded of a favorite game. These three Locals Only screenings showcase films produced in Southern Oregon and/or made by local filmmakers. Tickets are free for all Locals Only programs (tickets are required due to limited seating).

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89 minutes n Monday, April 16, 3p n Varsity Theatre free film programs 3:30 An Ordinary Life 4 minutes 28 minutes Alex Williams n Medford Patricia Somers, Willow Denker If David can’t save his grieving Ashland friend Mark from hurting A glimpse into the life of Dot himself, he has an extraordinary Fisher-Smith: mystical artist, backup plan. war resister, environmental activist, community presence and jailbird. Four Daughters 3 minutes Pizza Deliverance Ray Nomoto Robison n Medford 9 minutes A daughter consoles her father Cyle Ziebarth n Grants Pass when he is overcome with regret A pizza delivery guy wryly about how he’s spent their time narrates the typical night together. delivering for an atypical clientele in this animated film. The Next, Best West 36 minutes Pretty Piece of Justice Darren Campbell n Ashland 9 minutes New conceptions of progress Laney D’Aquino n Ashland challenge old ways of thinking 15 This comedy follows a that once steered our superhero-in-training, but in a exploitation of the west. small town, crime can be hard to come by.

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81 minutes n Monday, April 16, 9:20p n Varsity Theatre Walk-In Feature Scott Blum n Ashland Don meets an angel who challenges the premise of mortality. Features Oregon Shakespeare Festival company actors and inspired by the director’s novel, Summer’s Path.

family films

Family Shorts 48 minutes Sunday, April 15, 12p Appropriate for ages 5 and up, discounted tickets for students These eight short films are geared for kids, though their creativity will engage and challenge all ages. Featuring films by AIFF alums, a local grade school student, an Oscar winning filmmaker and more. A popular program, now in AIFF’s largest venue! family films The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (p61) Family-Friendly I Want To Be Me (p65) For other family-friendly films (ages 10+) Luminaris (p68) check out the feature David (p48), and the documentary Shakespeare High (p37). A Martian Picnic (p69) Our films aren’t rated but we do try to New London Calling (p33) help you out. If you’re looking for films for your family, watch for the words The Secret Life of Bluebirds (p72) “language,” “violence,” “adult subject Super Sledder (p14) matter,” and “subtitles” following each film synopsis throughout the program to PHOTO BY SEQUOIA PETTENGELL The Windmill Farmer (p75) determine if a film’s content might be a Cast your vote for the Family Choice Award good match.  at the Family Shorts show! 17 The Science of Animation Saturday, April 14, 1–2p Sunday, April 15, 3:30–4:30p ScienceWorks Hands-On■ Museum 1500 East Main Street Tickets: admission is free with a 2012■ AIFF ticket stub The AIFF and ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum invite you to go behind-the-scenes for a special exhibit and presentation, The Science of Animation, featuring AIFF jury member Mark Shapiro of LAIKA, the Portland-based animation company behind the 2009 feature film Coraline (set in Ashland) and the upcoming ParaNorman. For more animation for kids see Family Shorts above and for adults see Animation Shorts (p57)! And look for ParaNorman in 3D in theaters August 17! documentaries

In addition to juried awards, audience members vote to select the Rogue Creamery Audience Award: Documentary Feature and the Audience Award: Best Short Documentary. Winning films in all categories are announced at the Awards Celebration, Sunday April 15 (p9). Juried and Audience Award-winning documentary films will have additional screenings on Monday, April 16. Tickets are on sale now!

Jurors – Best Documentary: Feature Length

CLAUDIA PUIG has been USA Today’s film critic since 2001, and is a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s Film Week. Her career began at the Los Angeles Times in 1986 covering government, crime and courts.

AJ SCHNACK’s films include Convention (2010 AIFF), Kurt Cobain About A Son, Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) and two forthcoming nonfiction features on the 2012 Iowa Caucus and the music show/tourist mecca, Branson, Missouri. He is founder and co-chair of the Cinema Eye documentaries The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking.

DOUG WHYTE is the Executive Director of Oscar Short Docs the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon, a Oscar nominated and winning short documentaries not-for-profit organization whose mission is to entertain, inspire, educate and connect the 73 minutes n Friday, 9:30a community through the art of film, while 18 preserving a historic Portland landmark. Incident in New Baghdad (p29) The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (p39) Jurors – Best Short Documentary Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (p41) JUDITH HELFAND is a filmmaker and activist. Her award winning films include For other Oscar nominated and winning films check out Oscar Healthy Baby Girl, Blue Vinyl, and Shorts (p56), Animated Shorts (p57) and Family Shorts (p17). Everything’s Cool (2007 AIFF). She produced the 2011 AIFF Best Short Documentary The Barber of Birmingham. Co-founder of Working Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures, she’s Short Docs “incubating and hatching all at once.” 91 minutes n Thursday 6:20p, Friday 9:20p, Sunday 3:20p

SUSAN SALADOFF spent 25 years practicing Aquadettes (p20) law in the civil justice system, representing Hold On Tight (p27) injured victims of individual and corporate negligence. She stopped practicing law in Installation (p31) 2009 to make the award winning documentary, Hot Coffee (2011 AIFF), her first Pipe Dreams (p35) feature film. Susan lives in Ashland, Oregon. Smoke Songs (p38) Installation ANNE THOMPSON has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Film Comment and Entertainment Weekly. Her film industry Award Winning Shorts column “Risky Business” appeared in the L.A. AIFF Juried and Audience Award winning documentaries, shorts Weekly and the Los Angeles Times syndicate. and animation Her daily blog, “Thompson on Hollywood,” was launched at Variety.com in 2007. Monday 3:40p 5 Broken Cameras Abuelas documentaries

90 minutes n 2011 n France, Israel, Palestinian Territories 10 minutes n 2011 n United Kingdom

Thursday 12:00p n Saturday 9:30a n Sunday 9:00p Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p

Directors: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi n Producers: Emad Burnat, Christine Camdessus, Guy Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Davidi, Serge Gordey n Cinematographers: Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi, Alexandre Goetschmann, Jonathan Massey, Shay Carmeli Pollak, Yisrael Puterman n Editors: Guy Davidi, Director: Afarin Eghbal n Producer: Kasia Malipan n Screenwriters: Afarin Eghbal, Francesca Véronique Lagoarde-Ségot n Music/Composer: Le Trio Joubran n Principal Cast: Emad Gardiner n Cinematographer: Claire Buxton n Motion Control Consultant: Ernesto Burnat, Gibreel Burnat, Soraya Burnat, Adeeb, Phil, Riyad, Daba Herrmann n Editor: Katherine Lee n Music/Composer: Lennert Busch n Narrator: Geraldine McEwan n Principal Cast: Alexia James, Sofia Margaritis, Joy McBrinn, Lukasz Platkowski, Emad Burnat, farm laborer and self-taught videographer, gets Jenney Surelia n afarin.co.uk/#!abuelas his first camera to record the birth of his son, Gibreel. He also begins filming the bulldozers as they rip out olive trees This documentary employs a mix of animation techniques to belonging to his family and his West Bank village. Over the next tell the story of “the disappeared.” In a small apartment in five years, as workers erect a wall to separate advancing Jewish Buenos Aires, a grandmother (abuela) is surrounded by settlements from the Palestinians, resistance to the wall grows reminders of the tragedy that befell her family during more hostile. As demonstrations and reprisals escalate Emad Argentina’s military dictatorship. Using real-life testimonials keeps filming, despite pleas from his wife who fears reprisals. from the Grandmothers of May Square, this is a testament to the His first camera — then his second, third, fourth and fifth — are tenacity of the women who continue to fight for the truth about each destroyed by the violence and ever present Israeli soldiers. 19 their missing relatives. Scenes of Gibreel’s five birthday parties alternate with assaults, brutality and death amid the gorgeous imagery of ancient olive Afarin Eghbal groves. The result is one man’s intensely personal, powerful National Film & Television School document about a community’s struggle against violence and Director’s Statement oppression. As Emad states: “I film to heal, so I’ll just keep filming.” [subtitles, violence] I restricted the action to animated objects and photos within this room—to increase Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi the sense that this is the Grandmother’s space, thus emphasizing her sense of Directors’ Statement loneliness. I shot the actress in a way that we would see only When we decided to make this fragments of her body—arms, hands, or the back of her head. film, we thought it should be as This was because the film was based on the accounts of four of intimate and personal as can be. the grandmothers that I met and interviewed in Argentina. I That was the only way we could used parts of their stories to construct one general story, which tell this story in a new and represented what they had all been through. In this way, the Guy Davidi, Emad Burnat emotional fashion. We also knew story represents their unified fight. we would be criticized for doing this film together. Emad would be asked why he made the film with an Israeli, and Guy with a Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Palestinian. There are different expectations of us because of our identities. But we are frustrated when people narrow it down and choose to look at things through these narrow filters. We made this film to inspire people in their own lives. We made this film with sincere initiative, trying to avoid all the clichés and traps as much as we could, and to challenge our own pre-judgments. The reality is wonderfully complex, and this is beautiful. In the end, we hope all will come away with open hearts.

Selected Filmography: Burnat: Directorial Debut; Davidi: Keywords, A Gift From Heaven, Interrupted Streams, Women Defying Barriers AQUADETTES The Atomic States of America

11 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 92 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Sunday 3:20p Thursday 9:40p n Saturday 12:40p n Sunday 6:40p

Directors: Don Argott. Sheena Joyce n Producer: Sheena Joyce n Executive Producers: Linda Plays in Short Docs (p18) Gelfond, George Hornig, Joan Hornig, Anne Marie Macari, Noah Musher, Jane Preiser, Rory Riggs, Danny Sherman n Cinematographer: Don Argott n Editors: Marc D’Agostino, Demian Directors/Producers/Cinematographers: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper n Editor: Drea Fenton n Music/Composer: West Dylan Thordson n Principal Cast: Robert Alvarez, Helen Cooper n Music/Composers: Matthew Joynt, Nathan Sandberg n Principal Cast: Margo Caldicott, Eric Epstein, Paul Gallay, Karl Grossman, Kelly McMasters Bouer n californiaisaplace.com Is nuclear energy really “green” energy? Inspired by journalist Meet the Aquadettes, a group of young-at-heart women on

documentaries Kelly McMasters’ book Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Leisure World’s synchronized swim team. 75-year-old member Atomic Town, this film explores the truths and myths of nuclear Margo is fighting multiple sclerosis and using medical power, and confronts America’s collective denial of potential marijuana to ease her pain and to keep on swimming in this disasters at aging reactor sites. Advocates in various reactor beautifully paced meditation on life, death, and water sports. communities reveal the insights and hardships they share in Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper common, while physicists, Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors, engineers, government leaders and investigative 20 Directors’ Statement journalists add their unique perspectives. We were researching medical Current and archival footage illustrates the history and marijuana stories for a few months background of our nuclear policy, political and economic but nothing seemed quite right. implications, health risks, waste disposal, and the lessons of We were only finding stories about Chernobyl and Fukushima. growers, dispensaries, or the feds cracking down on people. It was Don Argott, Sheena Joyce important to us to find a person Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari Directors’ Statement who hadn’t used marijuana before and who was strictly using it for medical purposes and the We had nearly finished filming when the elderly seemed like the right population. massive earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 struck Fukushima, Japan. When we So one morning I did some Google-sleuthing and came across a learned that several nuclear facilities in Japan short news article about medical marijuana access in a had been knocked offline, we realized that retirement community in Orange County. Margo was Don Argott our film was about to change — and gain new interviewed and she described her battle with multiple significance — in ways we’d never foreseen. sclerosis and how marijuana helped with her severe symptoms. When she mentioned that she was a member of the Aquadettes The events in Japan reframed the dialogue synchronized swimming team we knew there was potential to about nuclear power worldwide. President make a beautiful little film. Obama’s goal of building the first new nuclear reactors in more than 30 years puts Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: California Is A Place America at the crossroads of the “Nuclear Renaissance” — a crucial time to re- examine the issues, re-ask the tough questions and spark an intelligent dialogue. Sheena Joyce The largest challenge was how to make our film accessible, emotional, informative and powerful. Ultimately, we want our audiences to ask themselves: “Should nuclear energy be a part of our energy future?”

Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: The Art of the Steal, Last Days Here, Rock School, Two Days in April Austin Unbound Battle for Brooklyn documentaries

44 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 93 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Friday 10:00a n Saturday 12:30p n Sunday 3:30p n Monday 6:30p Thursday 3:40p n Friday 10:10a n Monday 12:40p

Directors: Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley n Producers: David Beilinson, Adam Galinsky, Suki Plays with The Universal Language (p39) Hawley n Cinematographers: Jonathan Barkey, David Beilinson, Tracy Collins, Michael Galinsky n Editor: Suki Hawley n Music/Composers: Derek Bermel, David Reid n Principal Director/Producer: Eliza Greenwood n Cinematographer: Sel Staley n Editor: Basil Shadid Cast: Michael Bloomberg, Bruce Bender, Daniel Goldstein, Patti Hagan, Letitia James, n Music/Composers: Jen Agota, Chris Funk n Principal Cast: Lola Goldberg, James Hottle, Shabnam Merchant, Marty Markowitz, Bruce Ratner, Norman Siegel n battleforbrooklyn.com Austin Richey n austinunbound.org A chronicle of one community’s fight against a well-funded The reflections of Austin, a deaf transsexual, are documented private project that would destroy their neighborhood. The during a pivotal stage in his transgendering process — focus is Daniel Goldstein, a reluctant activist whose apartment undertaking “top surgery.” While Austin is comfortable with his would be demolished to make way for the controversial deafness and refuses to “fix” his hearing, he is adamant about Atlantic Yards complex: sixteen luxury high-rise buildings — discarding the binder he has long used to flatten his breasts. plus a New Jersey Nets basketball arena—designed by celebrity Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Austin’s female anatomy did architect Frank Gehry. not match his mind, heart or spirit. “I felt like I was wearing a Goldstein helps start an organization to oppose the project and Halloween costume,” he signs. James, Austin’s childhood explore alternatives. Do the rules of eminent domain apply to friend, accompanies him to San Francisco (with a stop in 21 private enterprise? How can jobs and race be used as wedge Ashland) for his surgery and recovery as Lola, Austin’s issues? What is the definition of “blight?” Shot over seven years, girlfriend, lends love and support. Unbound at last, Austin is this intense, intimate film is a primer on grassroots activism that eager to get on with life. His journey is an inspiration to his will inspire people to look deeper into the issues that affect their community and beyond as he shares his intimate insights with lives. With cameo appearances by Michael Bloomberg, George self-awareness and humor. Sign-interpreted Q&A to follow Will, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Jay-Z, Rosie Perez, and screenings. [subtitles] Reverend Billy of the Church of Life after Shopping. Eliza Greenwood Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley Director’s Statement Directors’ Statement Along with finding Austin wildly When most people hear the words entertaining, I decided I wanted to “eminent domain,” they think of the document the journey of this funny and government seizing private property for fascinating character, because of a change I “public benefit” — usually a park, a noticed in myself. Prior to meeting him, hospital, or a highway. The U.S. Supreme transgender issues were unfamiliar to me, and my first instinct Court, however, ruled that “public benefit” was to distrust the transgender experience. As someone who is Michael Galinsky can be as simple as generating higher tax very comfortable with my own female body, I couldn’t revenues. understand why anyone would want to disown their gender. As filmmakers who live and work near the I was deeply immersed in the deaf community, where I met Atlantic Yards project site, we became Austin and something inside me changed. I was gifted with this interested because it was clear that nobody moment of realizing that although my brain did not find logic had bothered to discuss the idea with those in it, my heart... And it really isn’t my place to judge. I wanted who actually lived in the neighborhood. other people to have that chance, to meet him and accept him What emerged over the next seven years is as a human being. a portrait of the battle for the soul of Brooklyn. Suki Hawley Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: Code 33, Half-Cocked, Horns and Halos, Lee Hazlewood in New York, Miami Manhunt, Radiation

Bidder 70 (Work In Progress) Chasing Ice documentaries

73 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 74 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Friday 6:40p n Saturday 3:40p n Sunday 12:40p n Monday 10:10a Thursday 6:00p n Saturday 9:00p

Director/Cinematographer: Jeff Orlowski n Producers: Jerry Aronson, Paula DuPre’ Pesmen, Plays with You Have the Right to an Attorney (p45) Jeff Orlowski n Screenwriter: Mark Monroe n Editor: Davis Coombe n Music/Composer: J. Ralph n Principal Cast: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Adam Lewinter, Jeff Orlowski n Directors/Producers: Beth Gage, George Gage n Screenwriter: Beth Gage n chasingice.com Cinematographer: George Gage n Editor: Ryan Suffern n Principal Cast: Ashley Anderson, Tim DeChristopher, Christine DeChristopher, Joan Gregory, Robert Redford, Cori Redstone, This hauntingly beautiful film documents the Extreme Ice Dylan Rose Schneider, Patrick Shea, Terry Tempest Williams, Dennis Willis, Ronald Yengich n gageandgageproductions.com/Bidder70 Survey—an unprecedented project conceived by legendary National Geographic photographer James Balog. With a In 2008 Tim DeChristopher disrupted the Bush Administration’s scientific upbringing Balog had been a cynic about the nature of last minute controversial BLM Oil and Gas leasing auction. academic research but his first trip north causes him to put his Posing as Bidder #70 Tim bid $1.7 million and won the rights career and his very well-being at risk. With a team of young to 22,000 acres of pristine Utah land he had no intention of assistants he deploys cameras across the brutal Arctic to paying for — or drilling on. The act drew national attention to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. America’s energy policy and criticism of the BLM’s management Filmed in Iceland, Greenland, Alaska and Montana, Balog’s of public lands, and gave the incoming administration time to stunning videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion. The time-lapse photograpy 23 invalidate the auction. Federal charges, years in prison and fines of $750,000 were also very possible. reveals the glaciers disappearing at an astonishing rate. Refusing to compromise his principles and rejecting numerous Shot and edited over five years, the film depicts one man’s plea offers by the prosecution, Tim is willing to sacrifice his attempt to deliver evidence of global warming. While not own future to bring the issue to national attention. This overtly political, his unambiguous photographic record goes to personal story is surrounded by a wider context of citizen the very heart of the issue of climate change. action and the history of peaceful civil disobedience and grass roots movements demanding accountability. Jeff Orlowski Director’s Statement Beth Gage, George Gage James selected his camera locations to Directors’ Statement capture glaciers around the world. He Once in a while someone comes wanted his Extreme Ice Survey to show along that totally thrills you. how glaciers are responding everywhere— That’s how we felt when we read so we followed him everywhere. The about Tim DeChristopher, a biggest challenge was the harsh University of Utah student. No environment. But as cold as it was, and as difficult as it may property was destroyed, no one seem, that was the fun stuff. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. George and Beth Gage was hurt, and he raised valid At the beginning of this project, I had no idea how big it would concerns over the entire BLM process. eventually become. We just started shooting and, over time, the Climate change is upon us and there is nothing more important project got bigger and bigger. But it was all worth it, and our to work for than a livable future. Tim is not alone in this entire team is really proud of what we have created. I hope this message, but his commitment to future generations, his film will bring the beautiful world of ice closer to home. If it evolution as a leader and his willingness to courageously accept helps change how people think about their relationship to the consequences of his action, make his a story to inspire a nature, and how human beings exist on this planet, I’ll consider new generation of activists. it a success.

Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: American Outrage (2008 AIFF), Fire on the Selected Filmography: Geocaching: From the Web to the Woods Mountain: The Story of the 10th Mountain Division (2004 AIFF), Troubled Waters: The Dilemma of Dams (2003 AIFF)

A Declaration of Interdependence DETROPIA documentaries

5 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 90 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 12:20p n Friday 9:50a n Saturday 9:50a n Sunday 9:20p Thursday 12:30p n Friday 6:30p n Saturday 3:30p Sunday 6:30p n Monday 9:30p Plays with WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists (p43) Plays with Kyle Kinser: Made In Makanda (p32) Director: Tiffany Shlain n Producer: Sawyer Steele n Screenwriters: Ken Goldberg, Tiffany

Shlain, Sawyer Steele n Animator/Editor: Stefan Nadelman n Music/Composer: Moby n Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady n Producers: Craig Atkinson, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady letitripple.org/a-declaration-of-interdependence/the-film/ n Cinematographers: Craig Atkinson, Tony Hardmon n Editor: Enat Sidi n Music/Composer: Dial.81 n Principal Cast: Mayor Dave Bing, Phil Cooley, Dorota Coy, Steve Coy, George Using the Declaration of Independence as inspiration, the McGregor, Crystal Starr, Tommy Stephens n detropiathefilm.com filmmaker posted a script online and invited Planet Earth to participate in a crowd-sourced film about our Interdependence. Detroit was the birthplace of the middle class, the utopia where Submissions poured in from around the world, in over 50 anyone who worked hard could experience the American languages. This exhilarating global mash-up demonstrates the Dream. Today, Detroit is at its tipping point, both financially vast potential of creative collaboration today. and spiritually. 100,000 homes have been abandoned, and its population is lower than at any time in the past 100 years. Forty Tiffany Shlain square miles within the city stand vacant. Director’s Statement While racial tension, globalization and greed have led to this 25 moment of truth, artists and curious outsiders flock to the city This film puts ideas from my feature in search of history, inspiration and opportunity. This gorgeous documentary Connected into action, verité documentary follows a blogger, a club owner, an auto picking up from the last line, “perhaps it’s union rep, an operatic impresario, and a band of illegal salvage time to declare our interdependence.” We scrappers. The inevitable question is whether this storied are now making free customized versions metropolis has the courage, creativity and grit to reinvent itself of the film to any nonprofit working to in the face of new realities. [language] make the world better. In two months, we have already made 75 free versions of the film with their logo and call to action. Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady Participatory in both creation and distribution, it’s cloud- Directors’ Statements filmmaking in the 21st century. This is the first film in a new short film series, Let It Ripple: Mobile Films for Global Change. Heidi Ewing: I grew up in the Detroit area. We are excited to see the ripple effect of this message of These Detroiters are warriors. Every day, interdependence. It’s time. they wake up and keep doing their thing. I’ve filmed all over the world—in Saudi Selected Filmography: Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology Arabia, Cuba, Africa, throughout the (2011 AIFF); Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness; The Tribe (2007 AIFF); Yelp: With United States. But Detroit is, hands down, Apologies to Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” the most cinematic place I’ve ever filmed. It Heidi Ewing is a heartbreakingly beautiful place. Rachel Grady: Initially, we were looking for a story of an incredible entrepreneur, inventor or activist who was trying to bring the city back. What we found, instead, were people who don’t have all the answers, but are the ultimate solutions. They refuse to give up. They are total and complete survivors. They are the reasons Detroit is not going to disappear. Rachel Grady

Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: 12th & Delaware, The Boys of Baraka, Jesus Camp ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight To Rescue ETHEL American Healthcare 97 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

n n n 99 minutes 2012 USA In Competition Friday 3:00p n Saturday 6:00p

n n Friday 3:40p Saturday 6:40p Sunday 10:10a Director/Narrator: Rory Kennedy n Producers: Rory Kennedy, Jack Youngelson n Screenwriter: Mark Bailey n Cinematographer: Buddy Squires n Editor: Azin Samari n Directors/Producers: Susan Froemke, Matthew Heineman n Executive Producer: Doug Music/Composer: Miriam Cutler n Principal Cast: Christopher Kennedy; Courtney Kennedy; Scott n Cinematographer: Wolfgang Held n Editor: Bradley J. Ross n Music/Composers: Ethel Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy, II; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; Kerry Kennedy; Max Chad Kelly, Moby n Principal Cast: Don Berwick, Shannon Browlee, Dan Bullis, Coby Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. n ethelthemovie.com Cosgrove, Wayne Jonas, Dr. Erin Martin, Steve Nissin, Dr. Dean Ornish, Wendell Potter, Pamela Ross, Richard Umbendstock, Dr. Andrew Weil, Ron Wyden n escapefiremovie.com A relatively untold story of the Kennedy family—the

documentaries remarkable life of Ethel Kennedy—unfolds through many What can be done to fix our broken medical system? Nearly 75% never-before-seen images, and intimate interviews only a of our healthcare costs are spent on preventable diseases. Within daughter or sister could conduct. Rory, the Emmy Award the next ten years, U.S. healthcare costs are projected to winning director, paints a portrait of her mother’s political consume $4.2 trillion annually, roughly 20% of our gross awakening; the life she shared with attorney general, senator domestic product. Powerful forces work to maintain this status and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy; and the years quo in a medical industry designed for quick fixes rather than following his death when she raised their 11 children on prevention, for-profit driven care rather than patient driven care. her own. The campaigns, the Cuban missile crisis, the 26 After decades of resistance, a movement to bring innovative assassinations and numerous stories come into focus. high-touch, low-cost methods of prevention and healing into Recounted memories of this famously private widow and her our costly, high-tech system is gaining ground. Dramatic human children combine with rare film footage to tell of a political stories and interviews with many of our nation’s best minds and dynasty strengthened by family bonds and reveal the most eloquent advocates at the highest levels of medicine, challenges of withstanding grief over the deaths of so many industry, government—even the U.S. military—detail the loved ones. Ethel’s compassion and wisdom forged through problems and reveal solutions to saving the health of a nation. triumph and hardship are unveiled in this personal portrait of public family. Susan Froemke, Matthew Heineman Directors’ Statement Rory Kennedy Much of the traditional media attention Director’s Statement about healthcare is focused on the partisan For as long as I can remember, people say politics in our nation’s Capitol—from the “You must be Robert Kennedy’s daughter.” I contentious passage of the Affordable Care always remind them I am also Ethel Act to the ongoing polarized debate about Kennedy’s daughter. My father died when its impact. And everybody in America, Susan Froemke my mother was four months pregnant with whether they like it or not, has been me, and while his legacy touches everything I do, it’s my affected by our healthcare system in some mother who raised me. way. Yet, our country is still unclear about what is really wrong with healthcare and My mother had not given an interview in more than 20 years so how to move forward. I was moved by her trust in me, just as I was daunted by the responsibility such a trust entailed. From the start, I knew that Our film addresses what might be done to I wanted to capture some greater truth about who she is — her create a sustainable system for the future. It love for my father and her faith in God, her crackling sense of is our goal to transcend the misinformation humor and her inexhaustible drive. I also wanted the film to be and the angry partisan debates to create a about two people who drew strength from each other amid the clear and comprehensive look at healthcare Matthew Heineman extraordinary social upheaval that surrounded them. in America. Selected Filmography: American Hollow; A Boy’s Life; The Fence (2011 AIFF); Ghosts of Selected Filmography: Directorial Debuts Abu Ghraib; Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House The Highest Pass Hold On Tight documentaries

90 minutes n 2011 n USA, India n In Competition 13 minutes n 2011 n Ireland

Thursday 9:00p Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Sunday 3:20p

Director: Jon Fitzgerald n Producers: Jon Fitzgerald, Adam Schomer n Screenwriter: Adam Plays in Short Docs (p18) Schomer n Cinematographer: Dean Mitchell n Editor: Dan Perrett n Music/Composers: Jon Anderson, Michael Mollura n Principal Cast: Eric Braff, Ariane De Bonvoisin, Brooks Hale, Director: Anna Rodgers n Producer: Zlata Filipovic n Cinematographer: Kate McCullough n Paul Greene, Anand Mehrotra, Mike Owen, Richard Parkerson, Adam Schomer n Editor: Martha Meyler n Principal Cast: Gary Brennan, Erney Breytenbach, Vivian Cummins, thehighestpass.com Aisling Dolan, Jennifer Dunne, Marion Irwin-Gowran, Sandra Irwin-Gowran, Clodagh Leonard, Gillian Middleton, Michael Staunton n facebook.com/pages/Hold-On-Tight-short- Led by the 27 year old charismatic yogi Anand Mehrotra, writer documentary/218251774885379 Adam Schomer and six fellow seekers undertake an extraordinary spiritual journey along the world’s highest and Holding hands or kissing in public isn’t for everyone. In Ireland, most dangerous road. Beginning in Rishikesh, India, the when it comes to same sex relationships, showing your love birthplace of yoga, their 21-day trip climbs to 18,000 feet and outside of the home is sometimes a complicated personal the ancient Himalayan city of Leh, an outpost on the trading choice. Moving between public and private spaces, this short, route linking India, China and Tibet. Astride an improbable sweet film explores the small gentle gestures of human fleet of Royal Enfield motorcycles, the travellers confront connectedness. harrowing traffic, disabling altitude sickness and impassable roads—as well as their own personal doubts and fears. Anna Rodgers 27 This spiritual journey is also a stunningly beautiful travelogue Director’s Statement filled with sublime peaks, surreal skies, wind-tattered prayer flags, venerable shrines and temples, and a dizzying onslaught I wanted people to feel like they are right of heedless, carnival-colored lorries. In a land where “time,” there, to really look at these moments: lips “death” and “illusion” all translate as the same word, the together, tongues sometimes, little nuzzles seekers discover how to transmute their fears into love. Viewers of the nose, bad morning breath and all. may discover a little of themselves, as well. Kissing is kissing the world over. Why should this cause anyone to get worked up? Jon Fitzgerald My feeling is that the simple, small act of holding hands is Director’s Statement actually quite powerful, and has the capacity to gently bring about change. At the same time, showing affection isn’t usually When Adam first pitched the idea for this meant as a political statement—it’s something special shared film, I was instantly hooked because I between two people, which shouldn’t have to be hidden. We’re recognized its potential to be a spiritual talking about a universal need to touch and be touched, to adventure with cinematic qualities. It was express ourselves to another person. The fact remains that for a important to us that the documentary have group of people in our society these little gestures are often not a narrative feel, much like the “Hero’s possible. Call it simplistic, but I think that’s not fair. Journey” that Joseph Campbell wrote about. That’s why it was so great to see the exchange between Anand and the other Selected Filmography: If These Walls Could Talk, Today Is Better Than Two Tomorrows riders, but particularly with Adam. Here was the student putting his faith in the teacher, even in times of doubt. The journey to the highest pass was clearly significant for each of the riders. But as behind-the-scenes travellers on the same difficult route, it was something very special for the crew and for me as well. We wanted to make a movie that would be entertaining, yet engaging enough on a spiritual level that audiences would be inspired to consider their challenges in a different way.

Selected Filmography: The Back Nine, Dance of Liberation

Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Incident in New Baghdad documentaries Counting Christians 22 minutes n 2011 n USA

n n n 92 minutes 2011 USA In Competition Friday 9:30a n Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p

Friday 9:30a n Saturday 9:00p n Sunday 6:00p Plays in Oscar Short Docs (p18)

Director: Bryan Storkel n Producers: Jason Connell, Amy Storkel n Executive Producers: Ben Director/Producer/Editor: James Spione n Executive Producer: Carol Anne Grayson n Crawford, Colin Jones, Bryan Storkel n Cinematographer: Brian Liepe n Editor: Amy Storkel, Cinematographer: John Molinelli n Music/Composer: Emile Menasché n Principal Cast: Bryan Storkel, Michael Weinreich n Music/Composer: Frank Len n Principal Cast: Ben, Brad, Ethan McCord n incidentinnewbaghdad.com Colin, Dusty, Mark n holyrollersthemovie.com

The Churchteam is arguably the largest and most well funded One of the most notorious incidents of the Iraq War — the July blackjack team in North America. What started as a hobby for 2007 slayings of two Reuters journalists and a number of other two friends, interested in doing something unique with their civilians by U.S. attack helicopters — is recounted in the math skills and investment money, becomes a faith based raw and powerful testimony of an American infantryman initiative as Ben and Colin train over 25 Churchteam members, whose life was profoundly changed by his experiences on including pastors and other church leaders, the business of the scene. [violence] professional card-counting. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. In spite of the team’s phenomenal success, team members have to James Spione 29 deal with the personal conflict of how to be a Christian and play blackjack for a living. In addition, many members had to convince Director’s Statement their families — specifically parents — that what they were doing was not morally wrong. But when the team’s winnings decrease My short film examines what happened drastically and questions start being raised as to whether someone that day from the first-hand perspective of from the team might be stealing from the bankroll: the age old an American infantryman whose life was question of faith in each other comes into play. profoundly changed by his experiences on the scene. Bryan Storkel My hope is that, by hearing from all of the Director’s Statement first-hand participants of this tragic event, we may come to better understand the profoundly damaging consequences that I knew going into this that we would have ripple out through the lives of survivors over many years from to be creative in the filmmaking process. just one so-called “engagement” in a war. And when we learn Due to close personal ties with one of the from all involved that this incident was not an aberration, but a founders of the team, the players agreed to commonplace occurrence over the course of many years, allow cameras into their world. We had to perhaps then we will start to understand those mind-numbing make promises about how long we would statistics, and feel the true moral scale of the damage, the wait before releasing the film. We also had to agree in the end wounds, the folly of a war of choice that never needed to to blur the faces of certain members of the team as well as allow happen. disguises for player interviews. The other hurdle was getting footage behind the tightly closed Selected Filmography: American Farm, Garden, Our Island Home, The Playroom, Prelude doors of the casinos. We were granted access to a few casinos and their key personnel. During the filming inside these casinos we were lucky enough to get some footage of a surveillance room, back offices, security cameras, and behind the scenes work of casino managers. The rest of the casino footage was attained through hidden cameras and personal camcorders of the players.

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Installation The Invisible War documentaries

8 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 95 minutes n 2011 n USA

Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Sunday 3:20p Thursday 12:40p n Sunday 9:40p n Monday 6:40p

Director/Screenwriter: Kirby Dick n Producers: Tanner King Barklow, Amy Ziering n Plays in Short Docs (p18) Executive Producers: Nicole Boxer-Keegan, Maria Cuomo Cole, Abigail Disney, Sally Jo Fifer, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Regina Kulik Scully, Teddy Leifer, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Geralyn Director/Producer: Laura Green n Cinematographers: Paul Donatelli, Joe Lindsey n Editor: White Dreyfous n Cinematographers: Kirsten Johnson, Thaddeus Waddleigh n Editors: Sara Mott n Music/Composer: Zack Martin n Principal Cast: Nick Krell, Thomas Seligman, Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra n Music/Composer: Mary J. Blige n Principal Cast: Helen Joe Vilardi Benedict, Kori Cioca, Paula Coughlin, Myla Haider, Elle Helmer, Amy Herdy, Jessica Hinves, Ariana Klay, Trina McDonald, Hannah Sewell n invisiblewarmovie.com This visual poem explores the boundaries between art and industry as it documents the construction of renowned An unblinking look at the epidemic of rape within the U.S. minimalist artist, Richard Serra’s 235 ton, building-sized military. Several brave women soldiers reveal a systemic cover- sculpture “Sequence.” This beautifully composed meditation up of the crimes against them, as well as their ongoing struggles captures riggers, truckers, and construction workers in for justice and attempts to rebuild their lives. Featuring an moments of unexpected grace. impressive range of interviews, from U.S. Senators and military brass to the families of victims, the film investigates the Laura Green institutions that perpetuate the problem, as well as its profound Stanford University personal and social consequences. 31 Director’s Statement While rape victims in the civilian world can turn to an Contemporary American sculpture is often impartial police force and justice system, victims in the military epic in size and scale; nowhere is this more (both women and men) must rely on the chain of command, apparent than in the dramatic works of where commanders often lack legal training or basic human Richard Serra, who crafts pieces out of sensitivity. In the words of retired Major General Dennis Laich, hundreds of tons of steel. Sculptures on such a scale require not “This is the kind of issue that keeps our military from being only the vision of a master artist, but the highly skilled great.” [adult content, language] collaboration of crews of industrial laborers. I wanted this film to work in opposition to our most common cultural stereotypes, Kirby Dick which depict a tremendous gulf between laborers and artists. Director’s Statement The film thus takes us behind the scenes to witness the The inspiration for this film came from a moments where truck drivers, concrete layers and steel riggers 2007 Salon.com article entitled “The manifest art. In crafting this film, I searched for visuals where Private War of Women Soldiers” by we could not only see these workers as an integral part of the Columbia University journalism professor artistic process, but where we could see the artistry of their Helen Benedict. We were extremely work itself. surprised by the extent of the problem, and the systematic nature of the cover-up. More than half a million soldiers have Selected Filmography: Disaster (A Personal Geography), Lady Razorbacks, Neve & Sons been sexually assaulted since World War II. That comes as a shock to everyone we’ve spoken to. To find subjects, we put up a Facebook page inviting victims to share their stories off the record. These were the most emotional interviews I’ve ever done. For many of the victims, it was the first time they were speaking to anyone outside their family or a few close friends. Our hope is that the film will be a healing tool for all the survivors who have felt abandoned despite all they have sacrificed and done for our country.

Selected Filmography: Outrage, This Film Is Not Yet Rated Kyle Kinser: Made In Makanda Love Free or Die

8 minutes n 2010 n USA n In Competition 83 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 12:30p n Friday 6:30p n Saturday 3:30p n Sunday 6:30p Saturday 9:30a n Sunday 3:00p

Director: Macky Alston n Producer: Sandra Itkoff n Cinematographer: Tom Hurwitz n Editor: Plays with DETROPIA (p25) Christopher White n Music/Composer: Paul Brill n Principal Cast: Mark Andrew, Bishop Gene Robinson Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Wonjung Bae n Music/Composer/Principal Cast: Kyle Kinser A man’s two defining passions are in direct conflict: his love for In an isolated Illinois forest, Kyle Kinser, one of the last master his partner, Mark, and his love for God. Gene Robinson is the woodworkers, wanders in search of fallen trees out of which he first openly gay person to become a bishop in the historic documentaries makes beautifully conceived minimalist furniture pieces. This traditions of Christendom. His consecration in 2003, to which tactile film celebrates the humanistic pleasures to be found in he wore a bullet-proof vest, caused an international stir and he one-of-a-kind goods in a world of mass production. has lived with death threats ever since. For another film by Student Academy Award winning director As American Episcopal churches debate whether or not lesbian, Wonjung Bae, see Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (p41). gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of God, and the nation debates Wonjung Bae whether LGBT people are equal to heterosexuals in the eyes of 32 the law, Bishop Gene steps onto the world stage. He travels from Director’s Statement small-town churches to Washington’s Lincoln Memorial to London’s Lambeth Palace calling for all to stand for equality— I believe a story becomes real when it inspiring bishops, priests and ordinary folk to come out from endeavors to tell the truth, and sincerity is the shadows and change history. beautiful. Film is the right medium to prove this belief because only tangible details of Macky Alston the real world in front of the camera can tell the story; the truth in film cannot exist Director’s Statement outside of the physicality of the world in front of the camera. I find this limitation assuring and honest. This is how aesthetics I’ve been directing documentaries for overlap with ethics in my definition of art, and how my pursuit almost twenty years, but this film feels like of beauty justifies my calling as a filmmaker. the one I was born to make. When I came out to my dad twenty-five years ago in his I believe the art of documentary and of fiction correlate in that church office, he said that the only way to the goal of each is to achieve similitude of the real. It is be happy is to tell no one. I didn’t follow his fascinating for me to study the common properties of still and advice—but tragically many who receive that kind of advice do. moving images while constantly rediscovering the individual My dad has since changed his mind—why? Because he’s seen characteristics of each expression and emphasizing the me flourish. difference in my movies. In this film we see Bishop Gene Robinson and others flourish— even as they’re discriminated against. Hats off, at the end of the Selected Filmography: Museum of Exile, Vera Klement: Blunt Edge (2012 AIFF) day, to Bishop Robinson and the countless others who came before him, flank and follow him. We rarely comprehend just how much these people have put on the line in order for us to enjoy our freedom. It has been a privilege to try to bring that to light.

Selected Filmography: Family Name, The Killer Within My Daily Routine New London Calling documentaries

3 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition 10 minutes n 2010 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Sunday 12:00p

Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Plays in Family Shorts (p17)

Director/Animator/Narrator: David Lowery n road-dog-productions.com Director/Editor: Alla Kovgan n Producer: Robert Richter n Cinematographer: Mkriych Malkhasyan n Music/Composers: P. Andrew Willis, Ken Winokur n Principal Cast: The Ever wonder about the everyday life of a filmmaker? The students of the Dual Arts Language Academy n kinodance.org/newlondon.html creator of this witty animation faithfully, truthfully and hilariously illustrates his day-to-day activities—as a slideshow. Colorfully choreographed, a group of 75 children take over the city of New London, Connecticut, playing childhood games David Lowery from the streets to the surf. Their joy evokes hope for the future and also melancholy about a childhood culture disappearing Director’s Statement from the streets of American cities. This film was commissioned by the Fortnight Journal, who had asked me to Alla Kovgan provide a bit of explication about myself Director’s Statement and what I do. The concept of ‘what I do’ 33 was something I had never really As a filmmaker, for the last 15 years I have considered before, and breaking it down looked for a purely cinematic, non-literary, was surprisingly illuminating—it turns out that I don’t do much way of expressing ideas on film—and I at all! And yet I get things done, and I guess there must be have found a way forward through the something to that. Sometimes. I wound up illustrating the film world of dance, movement and gesture. because the idea of filming myself doing mundane activities Everything in this film is choreographed for was too terrible to bear. the camera. However, the choreography in the film is performed not by dance virtuosos but by 10–12 year old students of the Selected Filmography: Pioneer (2011 AIFF), St. Nick Dual Language Arts Academy in New London who are playing children’s games. For me, children’s games represent a great source of movement vocabulary but also movement qualities in children’s attitude and demeanor. I love the fact that children are able to engage in the frivolity of play with complete seriousness and absorption. I am interested in children’s lack of self-consciousness, their excitability and volatility. With this film I wanted to remind people about the joys of physical culture of children play, which I feel is vanishing from our daily lives.

Selected Filmography: African Dance: Sand, Drum, and Shostakovich; Arcus; Nora; Touch Jefferson Public Radio WORTH EVERY MINUTE

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10 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition 39 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 9:30p n Friday 3:30p n Saturday 10:00a Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Sunday 3:20p Sunday 12:30p n Monday 3:30p Plays in Short Docs (p18) Plays with The Waiting Room (p41) Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Leslie Iwerks n Producers: Leslie Iwerks, Jane Kosek n

Director: Nadav Kurtz n Producers: Stephanie Hain, Jose Rivas n Cinematographers: Nadav Narrator: Darryl Hannah n Principal Cast: Lillian Anderson, Senator Tony Fulton, Susan Kurtz, Chris Markos, Andrew Wehde n Editors: Tony Gannon, Nadav Kurtz n Principal Cast: Luebbe, Teri Taylor, Ken Winston n pipedreamsdoc.com Cruz Guzman, Jaime Polanco, Sergio Polanco n facebook.com/pages/Paraíso Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are Three Mexican immigrants risk their lives every day rappelling fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in down the skyscrapers of Chicago washing windows. We are what has become the most controversial environmental battle privileged to observe the intimacy and connection of their in the U.S. today: the Keystone XL Pipeline. Routed from conversations, revealing thoughts about working, mortality and Hardisty, Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, this tar sands pipeline of the people they observe inside the high-rises they clean in is set to cross the country’s largest freshwater resource, the this lyrical film. [subtitles] Ogallala Aquifer, and the fragile Sandhills of Nebraska, posing devastating consequences to human health, livestock, and Nadav Kurtz agriculture. 35 Director’s Statement Farmers whose families have worked the land for generations realize the potential personal and environmental disaster they One day, working as a film editor in a high- face from the pipeline. They devote their lives, individually and rise downtown, I saw a window washer collectively to stopping the project from proceeding. Kitchens drop down inches away from me, clean a become planning rooms for an effort to bring their story to their window and disappear. It seemed a perfect Nebraska neighbors and the world. metaphor for the parallel lives people of different cultures can inhabit in one city, Leslie Iwerks sometimes separated only by a dividing line as thin as the glass between us. Director’s Statement As I began shooting this short documentary, I became more The Keystone XL Pipeline is the symbol interested in the window washers’ point of view. What did they and lightning rod for our environmental think of the people inside the buildings they cleaned? How did future… We are all affected by this decision they deal with the danger of dangling sixty stories in the air that big oil lobbyists are making FOR us every working day? Often, the discussions went deeper, as they without our choice: the continued reliance probed each other further, ultimately leading into questions of on the dirtiest fossil fuels that will affect our planet and our faith and spirituality. kids for generations to come. It’s about greed and money for the 1% at the expense of our own environment and American Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut citizens. Tar Sands extraction produces 3 times more greenhouse gas than conventional oil, uses 3 barrels of fresh water per one barrel of oil, and is destroying pristine boreal forest the size of Florida in Alberta. It is important to create as much awareness about the negative impacts of this as much as possible. Have your friends write letters to the President, your congressman. Blog, tweet, Facebook all that you can about this issue. Take action, any action, every bit helps!

Selected Filmography: Dirty Oil, Downstream, The Pixar Story, Recycled Life (2007 AIFF)

Return to Mississippi (Work in Progress) Shakespeare High documentaries

84 minutes n 2012 n Canada, USA 82 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Saturday 12:00p Saturday 3:00p

Director: Paul Saltzman n Producers: Patricia Aquino, Paul Saltzman n Cinematographers: Director: Alex Rotaru n Producers: Lori Miller, Ronnie Planal, Alex Rotaru n Executive Paul (Bongo) Kolycius, Paul Saltzman, Don Warren n Editor: David Ransley n Principal Cast: Producers: Dana Brunetti, Dean Devlin, Eugen Rotaru, Kevin Spacey n Cinematographer: Byron De La Beckwith Jr.; Harry Belafonte, Morgan Freeman, Paul Saltzman Brian O’Connell n Editor: Drew Kilcoin n Music/Composer: Nathaniel Blume n Principal Cast: Nicole Boretz, Luis (Taco) Cueto, Galvin Emeslbe, Melvin Emesibe, Marissa Gold, In the summer of 1965, Canadian Paul Saltzman went south to Colleen Greenhalgh, Tosh Hall, Tommy Leyden, Chris (Vato) Marquez, Sam Sterns n participate in the voter registration movement with the Student shakespearehigh.org Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the Mississippi Delta. He was arrested, as well as punched in the head by a 19 Follow this group of highly motivated students from very diverse year-old member of the KKK. He is now a filmmaker and this backgrounds as they prepare for the 90th Annual Shakespeare personal journey leads him to conversations with Mississippi Competition sponsored by the Drama Teachers Association of resident Morgan Freeman and Harry Belafonte, an original Southern California (DTASC). Josh and Marisa attend the founder of SNCC and one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s inner- prestigious High School of the Arts. Nicole, Tommy, Galvin and circle advisors. He also interviews at length the unapologetic Melvin are from the low-income community of Hesperia. KKK member who assaulted him. Colleen is from affluent Westside Notre Dame High School. Tosh, Vato and Taco are former gang members from East L.A. He looks at Mississippi, as it is today, from a perspective of how 37 it used to be — weaving together a strong feeling and Through drama, the students discover a way to face adversity, connection to this part of America, and American history. including poverty, family problems, gang violence, drugs, Saltzman will present this special Work in Progress screening absentee parents, and the trials of adolescence. “Do you know and the audience will have a chance to discuss his plans for why an actor acts?” Taco asks. “Because he doesn’t like who he completing the film. [language] is.” Their stories are interspersed with commentary by DTASC alumni Kevin Spacey, Val Kilmer, Mare Winningham and Paul Saltzman Richard Dreyfus. Viewers will gain a stronger sense of why support for arts education in our schools is so critically Director’s Statement important. [brief, mild language; family-friendly age 10+] In the summer of 1964, I was horrified watching the television news as the story of Alex Rotaru the brutal murder of 3 SNCC—Student Director’s Statement Non-Violent Coordinating Committee— civil rights workers, unfolded in Growing up in Communist Romania, my Mississippi. They were taken and executed by the Klu Klux love of the arts was the one thing that Klan, with the help of local law enforcement officers and the allowed me to show up, study, and excel in collusion of the Government of Mississippi. school. I found endless hope and inspiration in music, literature, film and Deeply moved, I drove south the following summer from my theater. I was especially affected by the home in Toronto, to volunteer with SNCC, doing voter works of William Shakespeare. Many parents used exposure to registration in the Delta. In the course of my work I was the arts to insulate their children against the intellectually assaulted by a member of the KKK, Byron De La Beckwith Jr., oppressive environment of the time, and to stimulate the the son of the man convicted of murdering NAACP Field unimpeded growth of our imagination and self-worth. Secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Evers. Beginning in 2006, I began returning to Mississippi to see how things had changed; This film concludes on a strong, upbeat note, despite the current and to try to find Byron De La Beckwith, Jr., and explore if budgetary climate, which has arts education against a wall and personal reconciliation between us was possible. denied funding. I can only hope that the simple lessons of our film will be used by parents, educators and legislators, Selected Filmography: Prom Night In Mississippi (2009 AIFF) empowering other teens to become part of “the happy few.”

Selected Filmography: Kids With Cameras, They Came To Play Smoke Songs Tchoupitoulas

20 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition 80 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:20p n Friday 9:20p n Saturday 3:20p n Sunday 3:20p Thursday 3:30p n Friday 12:30p n Saturday 6:30p Sunday 10:00a n Monday 10:00a Plays in Short Docs (p18) Plays with The D Train (p60) Director/Producer: Briar March n Cinematographers: Kevin Gordon, Briar March n Editors:

Briar March, Jhanvi Shriram n Principal Cast: Berta Benally, Clayson Benally, Jeneda Benally, Directors/Producers/Cinematographers: Bill Ross, Turner Ross n Executive Producer: Jones Benally, Klee Benally Michael Gottwald, Dan Janvey, Josh Penn n Editor: Bill Ross n Principal Cast: Bryan Zanders, Kentrell Zanders, William Zanders n rossbros.net The godfather of punk, Joey Ramone, declared them “fire punk- documentaries rock.” Three siblings comprise Blackfire, a Diné (Navajo) rock This sensual, impressionistic documentary follows young band from Flagstaff, Arizona. Both on the road and at home, William, two older brothers, and their dog Buttercup on a journey their angry and redemptive, traditional and modern music of discovery to a forbidden land—New Orleans’ Vieux Carré. provides a dynamic insight into the contemporary issues facing Sometimes surreal, sometimes observational, the film evokes a a generation of Native American youth. world of exotic dancers, street preachers, fire-eaters, musicians, drag queens, and revelers of every stripe. Without interviews or Briar March narration, the film conjures a rich, atmospheric tapestry of 38 Stanford University America’s most unique city and the people who make it so. Director’s Statement As they grow from innocence to experience, the three brothers My inspiration for the films is the Benally provide a diverse, running commentary on themes as hysterical family; the central characters of this as they are philosophical. Viewers who enjoy Quest Myth documentary, and the members of the motifs will appreciate the flights from chaos, river crossings, family band Blackfire, which this film and nightmarish descents to the underworld. Taking its title showcases. While searching on the Internet I stumbled across from a local street name, this uniquely refreshing film reveals the band by accident. I was immediately taken by their life certain truths and beauties of New Orleans that the recent commitment to native issues, and their endless efforts to deluge of Katrina documentaries totally misses. [adult content] protect sacred sites and environmental causes. Their anger and frustration is poured into anarchic grungy punk-rock songs, and Turner Ross, Bill Ross at the same time, their connection to traditional Diné (Navajo) Directors’ Statement music and culture, is fused in-between electric guitars and thrashing symbols. The result is a hybrid of both traditional and The impulse to make this film came modern expressions, and intercultural influences. from memories of our childhood: wandering the carnival streets of I felt that this music, and their unique approach to making and New Orleans, dazzled by the performing it, embodied a new way of thinking about vibrancy of the night, of the mystery Turner Ross, Bill Ross indigenous identity. The film was made over nine months, emanating from the open doors during several blizzards in Flagstaff, and on a music tour spilling life out onto the streets. It was a far cry from our other throughout Arizona. home in the cornfields of Ohio. Through the three young brothers, we found the perspective we needed. It felt like being a kid again. Selected Filmography: Michael and His Dragon, Promenade, Sick Wid It, There Once Was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho As with our other films, the number one reason we made it was for the experience. We like things in motion—running constantly with camera in hand, chasing what’s sparkling. The camera allows us entry into these worlds and keeps our mom thinking we’re actually being productive. An entire year without sunlight. We found lots of trouble and met lots of new friends.

Selected Filmography as Co-Directors: 45365 (2010 AIFF) The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom The Universal Language documentaries

40 minutes n 2011 n USA 29 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Friday 9:30a Friday 10:00a n Saturday 12:30p n Sunday 3:30p n Monday 6:30p

Plays in Oscar Short Docs (p18) Plays with Austin Unbound (p21)

Director: Lucy Walker n Producers: Kira Carstensen, Charleen Manca, Nicole Visram n Director: Sam Green n Producers: Sam Green, Carrie Lozano n Cinematographer: Andrew Cinematographer: Aaron Phillips n Editor: Aki Mizutani n Music/Composer: Moby n Black n Editor: Shannon Kennedy n Music/Composer: The Quavers n Principal Cast: Renato thetsunamiandthecherryblossom.com Corsetti, Arika Okrent, Humphrey Tonkin n esperantodocumentary.com

With a quiet beauty, power and dignity, this elegiac film Esperanto, an artificial language created in the late 1800s, was captures the events following the tragic 2011 Fukushima created out of the belief that if everyone in the world spoke a earthquake. From the horror of the subsequent tsunami to the common tongue, we could overcome racism and war. This is a grim cleanup, we are brought full circle from destruction to portrait of the language and of those who speak it—humorous, rebirth as we witness the survivors’ courage to revive and poignant, stirring, and ultimately hopeful. [subtitles] rebuild as the cherry blossom season comes, a symbol of hope and new beginnings in Japanese culture. Sam Green Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Director’s Statement 39 Lucy Walker I always sort of knew about Esperanto, and I imagined this idea of a universal Director’s Statement language, how everybody speaking the same language would somehow bring This is a classic story of how a documentary about peace. I always thought it was comes together by evolving with real events something created in the 1950s, kind of a and creatively responding to the stories science fiction thing. And then a couple years ago I came across that were unfolding. I was already planning something that said it had been created by a guy in the late to be in Japan. I had been invited to 1800s—a Polish guy—and there still are a lot of people who promote the release of my film Countdown speak Esperanto. Every summer there’s a World Esperanto to Zero. I was also hoping to fulfill my lifelong dream of seeing Congress. There’d be like 3,000 people there from all over the the sakura, the cherry blossom, and going to hanami—cherry world, which completely surprised me. blossom viewing parties. Then on March 11th, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. So then I was curious—I really like the combination of the story and idealism. I liked it because it’s hard to be hopeful these days. I wondered if I should make a film, to express our solidarity Somehow Esperanto—the very name means ‘one who hopes’— with the Japanese and to find out what actually happened to the is all about hope. That’s what got me going on the project. people who were suffering because of the tsunami. I couldn’t help thinking that maybe this cherry blossom season—with its Selected Filmography: lot 63, grave c (2007 AIFF), Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest spirit of renewal, and its symbolism of the fragility of life— Shopping Mall (2009 AIFF) would be the most important one ever. What would the cherry blossoms feel like this year, when there was nothing pretty and fluffy about life at all, when the fragility of life was so horrifically painful?

Selected Filmography: Blindsight, Countdown to Zero, Devil’s Playground, Waste Land (2011 AIFF)

Vera Klement: Blunt Edge The Waiting Room documentaries

11 minutes n 2010 n USA 79 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition

Friday 9:30a Thursday 9:30p n Friday 3:30p n Saturday 10:00a Sunday 12:30p n Monday 3:30p Plays in Oscar Short Docs (p18) Plays with Paraíso (p35) Director/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Wonjung Bae n Music/Composer: Dimitri

Shostakovich n Principal Cast: Vera Klement Director/Cinematographer: Peter Nicks n Producers: Linda Davis, Peter Nicks n Executive Producer: Scott Verges n Editor: Lawrence Lerew n Music/Composer: William Ryan Fritch n Her 80th birthday approaching, Vera Klement, a Chicago-based Principal Cast: Cynthia Johnson, Dr. Matthew Rehrer, Dr. Amandeep Singh n painter, adamantly starts a new work, a portrait of Dmitri whatruwaitingfor.com Shostakovich. As she paints, Vera, a holocaust survivor, reflects on her life and her art. For another film by director Wonjung This urgent, intimate film follows several patients seeking Bae see Kyle Kinser: Made in Makanda (p32). emergency treatment, and the medical staff members charged with their care. Shot in a direct, personal cinema verité style at Winner of a Student Academy Award: Documentary. Highland Hospital in East Oakland, California, the film examines a public institution struggling to provide help and Wonjung Bae comfort for a persistent and growing stream of largely uninsured Director’s Statement patients living on the fringes of America’s health care system. 41 The story about an artist’s struggle to create A poignant blend of humor and drama, the film records its art is a familiar trope. My understanding of subjects without judgment or comment. The patients’ suffering the subject comes from the close and concern are powerfully portrayed through unobtrusive observation of my mother. She was once a camera work and character voice-overs. While the film is a promising oil painter, but could not realize sobering look at a health care landscape marked by economic her aspirations because of a lack of self- and political dysfunction, its humor and humanity provide an assurance and the demands of being a wife and mother. undercurrent of hope. [language] As an associate curator at a fine art gallery, I regularly interacted Peter Nicks with professional painters around my mother’s age and I could not but question what made the difference between my mother Director’s Statement and these other women. What could be the source for the This film developed as I listened to stories professional artists to persevere and succeed in this perplexing my wife told about her patients at Highland business? As a filmmaker, I am invested in discovering the Hospital in East Oakland, California. These answer to this question for myself. were stories of faith, pain, struggle and determination. I would listen to her tales Selected Filmography: Kyle Kinser: Made in Makanda (2012 AIFF), Museum of Exile with one ear, and the contentious health care debates blaring from CNN and Fox with the other. I realized that the people who were not participating in these debates were the very people we were fighting over: those stuck in waiting rooms at underfunded public hospitals all over the country. So I decided to make this film. I knew it would have no talking heads, no fancy graphics. It would not take sides. It would simply reveal in intimate detail the turnstile of humanity that passes every day through waiting rooms all over our country. For each one is our sister, our grandfather, our neighbor and our friend.

Selected Filmography: Danny and the Scatman, PBS’ Life 360 (producer)

Water WE ARE LEGION: documentaries 8 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition The Story of the Hacktivists

n n n Thursday 9:00p n Friday 6:00p n Saturday 12:00p 93 minutes 2011 USA In Competition

Thursday 12:20p n Friday 9:50a n Saturday 9:50a n Sunday 9:20p Plays with Valley of Saints (p54)

Director/Producer/Editor: Bari Pearlman n Cinematographer: Gena Konstantinakos n Plays with A Declaration of Interdependence (p25) Principal Cast: People of Nangchen, Tibet n btgproductions.com/water Director/Screenwriter: Brian Knappenberger n Producer: Luminant Media n In a land where water-gathering is a woman’s job, a Tibetan Cinematographer: Dan Krauss, Lincoln Else, Scott Sinkler n Editor: Andy Robertson n farmwoman patiently, gracefully and painstakingly collects Music/Composer: John Dragonetti n Principal Cast: Barrett Brown, Gabriella Coleman, water, 80 pounds at a time, on her family’s yak farm. We are Mercedes Haefer, Greg Housh, Christopher “Moot” Poole, Mike Vitale n wearelegionthedocumentary.com witness to this timeless ritual, repeated throughout the day every day—offering a meditation on survival, culture, Anonymous, the radical hacktivist collective that has redefined opportunities and privilege. civil disobedience for the digital age, have launched various Bari Pearlman cyber-attacks or “raids” on hundreds of targets from Visa and Paypal in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act, to Scientology Director’s Statement and WikiLeaks. They have taken down police and government domains, compromised corporate servers, dumped files, seized 43 I have traveled extensively through both millions of internal documents from security companies, and the modern and third world, but nothing handed over numerous private emails and passwords. They will ever compare to the extremely remote have also worked to keep the internet operating in the face of and subsistence way of life that I was frustrated dictators during the Arab Spring. immersed in during my 8 weeks journey through Nangchen, Tibet. There were so many times during The film takes us inside the world of Anonymous through filming when my camerawoman Gena and I had to stop our interviews with current members, writers, academics, and work and just process the majesty of the landscape surrounding activists, and traces the collective’s evolution from often hilarious us and the daily struggle for survival we were witnessing. and unruly prankster beginnings to a full-blown movement with global reach. [adult content, language] My relationship to water, and my understanding of my privileges as a western woman, were changed forever in that time. Brian Knappenberger Selected Filmography: Daughters of Wisdom (2008 AIFF), Mah-Jongg: The Tiles That Bind Director’s Statement Over the last year I’ve been following along as Anonymous has been sailing the seas of the internet, generally wreaking havoc and causing mayhem. Usually actions have been taken in the name of free speech and internet liberty, though occasionally it’s more for the “lulz” — for the sake of pure chaos, hilarity or Schadenfreude. Those moments can make you cringe or laugh out loud, usually both. As security strategist and philosopher Joshua Corman told me, “individual, young, nameless, faceless folks are having geopolitical impact. It’s both exhilarating to realize that and terrifying to realize that. It kind of depends on how that power is wielded. Whether you think it’s bad or not is irrelevant, it’s not going away.” For the “hacktivist” it has been a hell of a year.

Selected Filmography: Into the Body, Life After War

We Live in Public You Have the Right to an Attorney documentaries

89 minutes n 2009 n USA 13 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Friday 9:00p Friday 6:40p n Saturday 3:40p n Sunday 12:40p n Monday 10:10a

Director/Narrator: Ondi Timoner n Producers: Keirda Bahruth, Ondi Timoner n Executive Plays with Bidder 70 (Work In Progress) (p23) Producers: John Battsek, Sean McKeough, Vladimir Radovanov, Andrew Ruhemann n Cinematographers: Vasco Nunes, Ondi Timoner n Editors: Josh Altman, Ondi Timoner n Director/Cinematographer: Matt Bockelman n Producers: Matt Bockelman, Lisa Levey n Music/Composers: Marco d’Ambrosio, Ben Decter n Principal Cast: Jason Calacanis, Joshua Editors: Matt Bockelman, Max Cantor n Music/Composer: Michael Reilly n Principal Cast: Harris n weliveinpublicthemovie.com Matthew Caldwell, Scott Simpson n youhavetherighttoanattorney.com Ten years in the making and culled from 5,000 hours of footage, Two young and idealistic public defenders in the South Bronx the effect the web is having on our society is revealed through struggle on a daily basis to serve a never-ending tide of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of,” artist and impoverished clients while hoping that their work might visionary Josh Harris. His tumultuous life is captured in this change a system they consider broken. This poignant film riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world observes their attempt to persevere, one case at a inevitably takes control of our lives. time. [language] Harris, “Warhol of the Web,” staged a groundbreaking project in an underground bunker in New York City where over 100 Matt Bockelman people lived together on camera for 30 days. He explores how Director’s Statement 45 we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire. Through his experiments, I set out to make this film as a window into including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24- the public defender’s internal moral hour electronic surveillance, Harris demonstrated the price we wrestling match, but through the pay for living in public. [adult content, language] filmmaking process I uncovered a more noble and idealistic story. Set in the South Join the director Saturday, April 14, 6p for Breaking Boundaries: Bronx offices of the highly successful public defense firm The A Conversation with Ondi Timoner (p11); and Sunday, April 15, Bronx Defenders, I discovered that the true story was not about 7:30p at the Awards Celebration where Timoner will receive the what it is like to defend perpetrators of violent crimes, but AIFF Rogue Award (p9). about what it is like to defend a community of people who have been exploited their entire lives by a flawed system. The Ondi Timoner heroics of these attorneys are less about trying to help bad Director’s Statement people, but really about helping ALL people. In the beginning, I thought I would just Despite the long hours and low pay, these public defenders make a film about “Quiet,” Josh’s shoulder a heavy emotional burden that stems not from the millennial art project that took place in a outrageousness of their client’s crimes but the constraints bunker. I even edited a feature-length imposed upon them by the system they are working under. version of that film in 2000, which was never fully completed. It documented a moment of cultural Selected Filmography: Communitas, The Unofficial House Band history, but not the harbinger of things to come. What I had documented back then was a physical metaphor of how people would react to the Internet, which Josh predicted would eventually take over our lives. Everything I’d been documenting clicked into place and I understood what this film could, and should, be. Since then, I have never had a clearer and unwavering vision of a film I was making. I was so excited I could think of nothing else. I suddenly realized, just as Josh says in the film, that I had been ‘picked for the gig.’

Selected Filmography: Cool It, DIG!, I Recycle, Join Us, Library of Dust, (2011 AIFF) features

In addition to juried awards, audience members vote to select the John C. Schweiger Audience Award: Dramatic Feature. Winning films in all categories are announced at the Awards Celebration Sunday, April 15 (p9). Juried and Audience award-winning feature films will have additional screenings on Monday, April 16. Tickets are on sale now! Jurors – Best Feature, Across the Universe Best Acing Ensemble: Feature 133 minutes n 2007 n USA

JOHN ANDERSON is a film critic for Variety, Sunday 12:00p Newsday, The Wall Street Journal and appears regularly in the New York Times. He is author Director: Julie Taymor n Producers: Matthew Gross, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd n Executive Producers: Derek Dauchy, Charles Newirth, Rudd Simmons n Screenwriters: Dick Clement, of Sundancing and I Wake Up Screening, Ian La Frenais, Julie Taymor n Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel n Editor: Françoise Bonnot three-time chairman of the New York Film n Music/Composers: The Beatles, Elliot Goldenthal n Principal Cast: Joe Anderson, Joe Critics Circle, and member of the National Cocker, Salma Hayek, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood Society of Film Critics. Set against the backdrop of the 1960’s, amid the turbulent years

features ALRICK BROWN’s films have screened in over of anti-war protests, mind exploration and rock ‘n roll, this gritty, 60 festivals worldwide, earning numerous whimsical and highly theatrical musical rolls along to the beat of honors including the Sundance 2011 World many Beatles hits. This love story moves from the dockyards of Cinema Audience Award for his feature Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from Kinyarwanda (2011 AIFF Special Jury Mention). the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. Alrick’s work has been described as cinematic The star-crossed lovers, Jude and Lucy (Jim Sturgess and Evan archeology because of his vision to unearth Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and 46 stories that otherwise would not be told. musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with “Dr. Robert” (Bono) and “Mr. THUY TRAN has managed the USA Kite” (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside Fellowship program at United States Artists for their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude five years, which annually awards 50 and Lucy — against all odds — to find their own way back to unrestricted grants of $50k each to media, each other. [adult content, language] visual, literary, and performing artists. Since its founding in 2005, USA has put $15M Join the director Friday, April 13, 6p for Essential directly in the hands of America’s finest artists. Transformation: In Conversation with Julie Taymor (p10); and Sunday, April 15, 7:30p for the Awards Celebration where Additional Juror — Best Acting Ensemble: Feature Taymor will receive the Artistic Achievement Award (p9). CATHERINE E. COULSON is an actor with Julie Taymor the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and will Director’s Statement appear in the 2012 productions of The Very Merry Wives of Windsor, Iowa and As You Like It was fascinating to be offered a Beatles It. She has roles in numerous feature films, musical — using 30 Beatles songs — having best known for The Log Lady in the iconic nothing to do with the Beatles. It’s a completely original story set during the ’60s series, Twin Peaks. that takes place in New York and Vietnam and Detroit and Washington and Liverpool, but is Juror – Best Cinematography/ not about the Beatles but really is telling the story of that time. I had the good fortune of being well supported for this movie. I The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award: Feature was able to shoot what I wanted to and finish what I wanted to shoot. I’m very, very pleased with it. GERALD HIRSCHFELD A.S.C, is the D.P. of 45+ feature films including Fail-Safe and And it’s big. It’s not a little art movie. It’s got art in it, but [not] at Young Frankenstein. He is the author of Image the expense of entertainment. Since The Lion King, where I was Control and is a member of the Academy of able to cross those two things together—art and entertainment—I Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He received really believe that movies can do that as well, more than they do. the A.S.C.’s Presidents Award and the AIFF’s Lifetime Achievement Award (2004). Selected Filmography: Frida, The Tempest (2012 AIFF), Titus The American Dream Bucksville

74 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 104 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

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Director: Chel White n Producers: Darren M. Demetre, Laura McGie n Executive Producers: Plays with A Finger, Two Dots Then Me (p63) Tom Berenger, Charles Jennings, David Hume Kennerly, Laura McGie, Chel White n Screenwriters: Laura McGie, Chel White n Cinematographer: Marc Greenfield n Editors: Ben Director/Screenwriter: Jamil Walker Smith n Producer: Brittany Ballard n Cinematographer: Blankenship, Dennis Fitzgerald, Chel White n Music/Composers: Tom Brosseau, Chel White Matthew Blute n Editor: David Au n Music/Composers: Kenny Inglis, Lykke Li, TV on the n Principal Cast: Tom Berenger, David Bodin, Nathan Dunkin, Storm Large, Allen Nause, Ted Radio n Principal Cast: Christine Dunford, Malcolm Goodwin, Venita Metoyer, Jamil Walker Rooney, Thomas Stroppel n bucksvillemovie.com Smith n littleplowfilms.com 25-year-old Presley grew up in a small town in the Pacific Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Northwest in the shadow of his father and a secret militia called Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last The Lodge. Along with his cousins, he is committed for life to 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days participate in the group’s self-appointed mission of justice and before Obama’s inauguration, these young men have joined the punishment. He’s had long time desire to leave Bucksville but Marines together to face the obstacles and circumstances that leaving The Lodge has never been an option for any of its seem to overwhelm their passage into manhood. members. When the group forms connections to a national Luis wants to be a filmmaker and Ronald wants to travel the militia with an extremist right wing agenda, Presley must decide 47 world and raise a family. Through the lens of Luis’s video whether to break family bonds or become an accomplice. camera, they capture their friends, family members and places The film eerily delves into the realm of ethics and the militia they call home — to remember who they are and where they movement, within the context of family conflicts over loyalty come from. In their darkest hour, they turn on the video camera and love. Haunting and frank, it ponders the fine line between for the last time and document the final moments of their good and evil in a rural setting that is both beautiful and dark. journey home. An edgy, honest, and at times humorous film [violence] about family, friendship, and what it means to be a hero in today’s world. [adult content, Chel White language] Director’s Statement Jamil Walker Smith The origins of the story for this film came Director’s Statement from a dream I had a few years ago in which a young man was part of a small Imagine a war film where you never see a town, secret brotherhood involved in battle scene. A film where before you see vigilante killings in the name of ‘social the soldier’s gun, you see the block he grew justice.’ The group’s self-appointed mission up on. Before you see him holding his dead buddy, you see him was to right the failings of the U.S. criminal justice system and being held by his mother. These images give war a face; a face avenge the innocent. Eventually, this man had an epiphany of if you look at it long enough, you might have the thought “I conscience that led him to betray the group. The other members know him.” caught wind of this and by the end the man found himself on This is the full-length feature film that Luis would have trial for his life. submitted to film schools and shared with you and his After waking up from my dream, I realized it might make a good community, upon returning from Afghanistan. In honoring the premise for a film. At this point it expanded to include other reality of his world, we made the entire film using equipment characters, dialog, and complete scenes. Early on, we agreed we and means of production that Luis would have had access to: a should add women characters who, in the tradition of a lot of prosumer camera, actual locations, Home Depot lights, and classic literature, would be the truth-seers. friends and family in place of professional actors. Selected Filmography: A Painful Glimpse Into My Writing Process (In Less Than 60 Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Seconds) (2007 AIFF), Wind David DREAMWORLD

80 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 93 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

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Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Joel Fendelman n Co-Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Director/Cinematographer/Editor: Ryan Darst n Producers: Ryan Darst, Whit Hertford, Patrick Daly n Producers: Maz Jobrani, Julian Schwartz n Executive Producers: Stephanie Thommy Hutson n Screenwriters: Whit Hertford, Robert Gibbs n Music/Composers: Daly, Jason Dubin n Cinematographer: Robbie Renfrow n Editors: Joel Fendelman, Martin Classixx, Pleasant Pictures n Principal Cast: Whit Hertford, Mary Kate Wiles, Nora Kirkpatrick Levenstein, Chris Hughton n Music/Composer: Gil Talmi n Principal Cast: Muatasem Mishal, n sneakattackfilms.com Maz Jobrani, Binyomin Shtaynberger n david-themovie.com Oliver Hayes (Whit Hertford, Long Story Short, 2011 AIFF), an As the son of the Imam of the local Brooklyn mosque, eleven aspiring animator whose confidence is at a low point, meets the

features year-old Daud has to juggle the high expectations of his father captivating and impulsive Lily, who encourages him to drop (Maz Jobrani) and his feelings of isolation and difference—even everything and go with her to Northern California in the hopes from his peers in the Muslim community. Through an innocent of fulfilling his fantasy of working for Pixar Animation Studios. act of good faith, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of As they travel up the coast, Oliver falls deeply in love but upon Jewish boys who mistake him as a fellow classmate at their making certain startling discoveries he must decide if he wants orthodox school, in the neighboring Jewish community. to face reality or stay in dreamworld. A genuine friendship grows between Daud and Yoav, one of the This quirky but quiet road film explores the nature of a 48 Jewish boys, and his family. Unable to resist the joy of a relationship based on vulnerability, leading to personal insight camaraderie that he has never felt before, David, as he is known and growth. Using deftly improvised dialogue, it features an to the kids, is drawn into a complicated dilemma inspired by intimate view of the painful distinctions to be made between youthful deceit and the best of intentions. This sweet film offers dreams and reality. [adult content] a hopeful message about family, culture, and community, as socio-political barriers give way to friendship. [family-friendly Ryan Darst age 10+] Director’s Statement Joel Fendelman Sneak Attack’s goal is realism: contemporary Director’s Statement stories done with a minimalistic crew and little production. The plan is to keep it As a thirty-year old Jewish American, a intimate and fun from beginning to end. We large part of the journey in writing this film are inspired by and draw from the styles of was my own exploration of identity. Over the French New Wave period/cinema verite genre which my year of research, I spent a significant combines naturalistic visual techniques with stylized cinematic amount of time in the orthodox Jewish devices in editing and cinematography. We also embrace the communities of Brooklyn as well as the Muslim communities. I principles of improvisation in both performance and execution also spent a month living in the old city of Jerusalem. During to allow for genuine moments that focus on honesty and this time, I learned a great deal about the word “Identity.” The relatability. way it is used can alter how we perceive ourselves and others, even if nothing tangible ever changes. These “roguemantic” films adhere to the fusing together of a miscreant, DIY attitude and the desire to not shy away from When I look at the film, particularly the ending, the meaning depicting what makes all of our hearts beat in an effort to unify really comes alive to me. The question “Can Daud and Yoav be story and audience. friends?” As an idealist, I say yes. As a realist, I say no. The only thing left…is to ask why. Selected Filmography: elliott, Long Story Short (2011 AIFF)

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Gayby Mamitas

88 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition 105 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Friday 6:20p n Saturday 9:20p n Sunday 12:20p n Monday 09:50a Thursday 9:20p n Friday 12:20p n Saturday 12:20p n Sunday 6:20p features Director/Screenwriter: Nicholas Ozeki n Producers: Adam Renehan, Andrew Daniel Wells n Plays with A Short Film About Ice Fishing (p72) Executive Producer: Andrew Daniel Wells n Cinematographer: Andrew M. Davis n Editor: Melissa Brown n Music/Composer: Joseph Trapanese n Principal Cast: Pedro Armendariz Jr., Director/Screenwriter: Jonathan Lisecki n Producers: Amy Hobby, Anne Hubbell n Executive E.J. Bonilla, Joaquim de Almeida, Veronica Diaz-Carranza, Jennifer Esposito, Jesse Garcia n Producers: Zeke Farrow, Laure Heberton n Cinematographer: Clay Liford n Editor: Ann facebook.com/pages/Mamitas/197239313631421 Husaini n Music/Composer: Giancarlo Vulcano n Principal Cast: Louis Cancelmi, Sarita Choudhury, Alycia Delmore, Mike Doyle, Adam Driver, Jack Ferver, Jenn Harris, Dulé Hill, In this sweet coming of age film, shot in the multi-cultural Anna Margaret Hollyman, Jonathan Lisecki, Joanne Tucker, Matthew Wilkas n gaybyfilm.com environs of urban Los Angeles, Jordin Juarez, is the Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in quintessential Latino high school poser who wants to be bad their 30s. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching and cool with his friends. But his true nature, seen in his life Bikram yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers with his family, belies the cocky and self-assured character he from comic-book writer’s block and can’t get over his ex- portrays. As he is given the responsibility for caring for his boyfriend. They decide to fulfill a youthful promise to have a failing grandfather, Jordin meets Felipa, a studious, fiercely child together— the old-fashioned way. independent transfer student who sees through his tough exterior. Bemused by her attention to him, he takes an interest Can they navigate the serious and unexpected snags they hit as in her, and their unlikely friendship becomes a powerful but 49 they attempt to get their careers and dating lives back on track fragile bond. in preparation for parenthood? In between yoga and comic books they give it a try. The challenges of creating today’s With the L.A. skyline as a constant backdrop, the film reminds contemporary family unfold in this sweet, irreverent comedy us how the strong values of family, instilled by culture, are about friendship, growing older, sex, loneliness and the family insistent influences on our lives, despite generational you choose. Based on an award winning short film that has distances. A sincere film about family, friendship, and young screened at over 100 film festivals. [adult content] love. [adult content] Jonathan Lisecki Nicholas Ozeki Director’s Statement Director’s Statement The idea for the film came while fantasizing I’m committed to telling stories that about how I, as a gay man, could have a engender positive messages. The characters child without paying thousands of dollars. in my films always undergo a moral The feature was made on a “low to no journey that helps them discover their budget,” so there were the typical humanity. It is my goal to tell truthful and challenges that come with a lack of funds. honest stories that encourage reflexivity from audiences. We lost a free location mid-shoot and had to find a place that would match visually but that would also be free the next day. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut We also had to recast an actress at the same time. And, like magic, the first person I called about using their place said yes, and an actress who was meant to have a smaller part came in to read the larger, now open, part, and nailed it on the spot. So we didn’t even lose a day of filming. Each time a problem arose we were blessed with the luckiest of solutions.

Selected Filmography: Gayby (short film), Woman in Burka

My Best Day Not That Funny

75 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 105 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:30p n Friday 9:30p n Saturday 9:30p Thursday 3:20p n Friday 3:20p n Saturday 6:20p n Sunday 09:50a Sunday 9:30p n Monday 12:30p features Director: Lauralee Farrer n Producers: Terence Berry, Jack Hafer n Screenwriters: Lauralee Farrer, Jonathan B. Foster n Cinematographer: Brandon Lippard n Editor: Matt Barber n Plays with Little Horses (p67) Music/Composer: David Hlebo n Principal Cast: Brigid Brannagh, K Callan, Tony Hale, John Kapelos, Nick Thune n notthatfunnymovie.com Director/Screenwriter: Erin Greenwell n Producer: Erin Harper n Cinematographer: Adam Benn n Editor: Babak Rassi n Principal Cast: Jo Armeniox, Ashlie Atkinson, David Briggs, Raúl This is a simple story of just how far a serious man will go for Castillo, Harris Doran, Kate McKinnon, Haley Murphy, Molly Lloyd, Robert Salerno, Rachel love. By his own admission, Stefan is alone but not lonely. But Style n mybestdaythemovie.com this changes when Hayley, weary from a high-pressure job with While at her job as a refrigerator repair dispatcher, Karen’s a self-absorbed boss/boyfriend, returns to her hometown to visit world is rocked when she takes a call from a customer she her aging grandmother. When Stefan overhears Hayley tell her suspects might be the father she never knew. She enlists Megan, grandmother that all she wants is a guy who makes her laugh, a coworker, to pose as a mechanic, and together they embark on Stefan sets out to become funny and win her heart. a hilarious “service call” in search of the truth about her past. Unfortunately, Stefan is not that funny, but his attempt leads to Meanwhile, Megan must choose between the stability of her important transformations for both of them. longtime girlfriend and the thrill of a new love. Tony Hale (Buster on Arrested Development) portrays the 51 In the course of one exceptional Fourth of July, Karen encounters affable, 40-ish Stefan with insight and charm, both as the her father’s closeted lover, a sister addicted to betting, a brother clueless wannabe suitor to Hayley, and the compassionate struggling with adolescence and, if she can get out of jail in time, caretaker for her grandmother. This sweet, humble film is both her father. The provisional nature of families is the theme that humorous and smart, and touches on the importance of family, drives this quirky, funny, sweet-hearted film. As Karen muses: “I friendship and truth. believe the journey you take earns you your name. And you can create that name any day.” [language] Lauralee Farrer Director’s Statement Erin Greenwell We wanted to make a charming film that Director’s Statement didn’t rely on being quirky or dark, but still As a child in a dysfunctional family and had the sheen of allegorical storytelling. We Midwestern native, common themes employed a believable misunderstanding reoccur in my stories: People sing secretly and let it play out just this side of by themselves but never out loud with absurdity—the way our lives often do. It was hard not to go others. They kiss mirrors instead of broad, but we didn’t want to distance ourselves from the crushes. Enemies work together in jobs they hate. Mothers work characters. Instead, we tried to find something genuine and their issues out in cars; teenage siblings through fisticuffs. recognizable within each one. My favorite moments as a director have been hearing a roomful I was also motivated by a desire to see Tony Hale’s considerable of audience members relate to characters across lines of race, range as an actor further explored, and one morning I woke gender, class and sexuality. I understand now why I am more remembering writer Jonathan Foster’s “Not That Funny” interested in presenting “small” people with “big” problems in concept. Soon thereafter Executive Producer Jack Hafer came to my movies. Most of America is small people with big problems. me with a budget and a different script that didn’t interest me, Comedy is the act of rebelling against conformity while inviting so I pitched this idea instead. We wrote, produced, and shot the everyone in on the joke. I want to be specific about my own film within nine months, and I’m very proud of what we were perspective enough to present the much larger reality of life able to do. Plus we had a blast. that we all share. In other words, I want you to laugh. Selected Filmography: The Fair Trade (2008 AIFF), Laundry and Tosca (2005 AIFF) Selected Filmography: 21, Big Dreams In Little Hope

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty Sawdust City

88 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 97 minutes n 2010 n USA n In Competition

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Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Editor/Composer: Terence Nance n Executive Producers: Plays with The Lonely Pair (p67) James Bartlett, Andrew Corkin n Cinematographers: Matthew Bray, Shawn Peters n Animators: Emory Allen, Samantha Corey, Audrey Halgande, Natasha Harrison, Markus Director/Screenwriter/Editor: David Nordstrom n Producers: Mike Ott, Frederick Thornton Kempken, Jeanne Mailloux, Terence Nance, Leo Nicholson, Timo Prousalis, Corey Williams n n Cinematographer: James Laxton n Music/Composer: John Wood n Principal Cast: Lee Principal Cast: Alisa Becher, Dexter Jones, Namik Minter, Terence Nance, Talibah Newmann, Lynch, Carl McLaughlin, David Nordstrom n sawdustcityfilm.com Chanelle Pearson n ofherbeauty.com Fresh out of the Navy, Pete returns to his hometown on You’ve just arrived home after a bad day. You’re broke and Thanksgiving to track down an alcoholic father he hasn’t seen lonely, even though you live in the biggest and busiest city in in years. Unable to pick up the scent on his own, he calls his America. You do, however, have one cause for mild optimism: older brother Bob who has remained in town building a you seem to have captured the attention of an intriguing young business and a family. The estranged siblings hit a series of old lady. You’ve rushed home to clean your apartment before she bars, but while Pete is intent on finding their father, Bob just comes over. In your haste, you see that you’ve missed a call. wants to drink and reconnect with his little brother. There’s a voice mail; she tells you that she won’t be seeing you tonight. Along the way, they’re joined by Gene, a barroom hustler. He 53 promises to lead the brothers to their father (as long as they buy the With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of beer). Desperate, they accept Gene’s half-cocked guidance through humor, the relationship between Terence and Namik is the small town dives. As the quest falters, the drinking increases; documented. Utilizing a tapestry of live action and various old grievances arise, and the brothers must face the past and each styles of animation, through a quirky entanglement of narrative other. Uncannily authentic and, at times, bleak, the film poses threads of a film within a film, the fantasies, emotions, and complex questions about family, love and expectations. [adult memories that race through Terence’s mind during a singular content] moment in time are explored. Terence Nance David Nordstrom Director’s Statement Director’s Statement I had spent a lot of time writing and I met Namik through a friend in 2005, two researching on scripts that I found myself months after I got to The City. I set about unable to direct. They required the kind of the process of falling in love with her very money investors don’t like to chance on an quickly. One night, we were supposed to untested filmmaker. So I decided to make meet up at my place; I was excited about it something based around what I had, who I knew, and what I and rushed myself home. When I got settled, she called and told knew, hoping those limitations would encourage a certain me she couldn’t come over. simplicity in the storytelling. All the best films are in a sense So, inspired by her profound effect on my day-to-day emotional simple, and it seems too many cooks and ingredients often ruin well-being, I wrote a short film entitled How Would You Feel? what could be a good movie. So, this film is sort of a peasant After writing the film, I saw it to be a whole and self- dish—inexpensive, locally sourced, but hopefully tasty and deprecating truth. On July 6, 2006, the complete short film How somewhat nutritious. Would You Feel? was screened for the public. Upon seeing the The film was shot with a seven person crew and available light movie for the first time on the big screen, she did not descend in the space of two weeks. All of the taverns in the film were into my arms, or fall in love with me. This film is an expansion open and operating during the production, and the bar regulars of our story. It pretty much all really happened...I think. filled many of supporting and background roles. Selected Filmography: Exorcising Rejection, How Would You Feel?, Native Sun, No Ward Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut The Tempest Valley of Saints

110 minutes n 2010 n USA 82 minutes n 2012 n USA, India n In Competition

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Director/Screenwriter: Julie Taymor n Producers: Robert Chartoff, Lynn Hendee, Jason K. Plays with Water (p43) Lau, Julia Taylor-Stanley, Julie Taymor n Executive Producers: Ron Bozman, Anthony Buckner, Rohit Khattar, Tino Puri, Greg Strasburg, Stewart Till n Cinematographer: Stuart Director/Screenwriter: Musa Syeed n Producer: Nicholas Bruckman n Cinematographer: Dryburgh n Editor: Françoise Bonnot n Music/Composer: Elliot Goldenthal n Principal Cast: Yoni Brook n Editors: Ray Hubley, Mary Manhart, Musa Syeed n Music/Composer: Mubashir Russell Brand, Reeve Carney, Tom Conti, Chris Cooper, Alan Cumming, Djimon Hounsou, Mohi-ud-Din n Principal Cast: Gulzar Ahmad Bhat, Neelofar Hamid, Mohammed Afzal Sofi n Felicity Jones, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, David Strathairn, Ben Whishaw valleyofsaints.com

features In Julie Taymor’s version of this Shakespearean favorite, the main Shot in Kashmir, an Indian state often in the throes of rebellion, character is now a woman — Prospera (Helen Mirren) — the this is a lyrical, vibrant film about a poor, young boatman, duchess of Milan. When her husband dies, his brother Antonio Gulzar, and his best friend, who plan to escape the perils of (Chris Cooper) accuses her of killing him with witchcraft. He their city. Thwarted by a week-long curfew, they take on the job makes the accusation to be rid of Prospera and claim her royal of guiding a beautiful environmentalist, Asifa, as she goes about title. She is cast off on a raft to die with her four-year-old daughter her research on the pollution of the once beautiful and thriving Miranda (Felicity Jones). They survive, finding themselves Dal Lake. As the week goes on, Gulzar learns about the stranded on an island where the beast Caliban (Djimon Hounsou) environmental threats to his beloved surroundings and 54 is the sole inhabitant. Prospera enslaves Caliban and claims the develops an unlikely relationship with Asifa. With the curfew island but the power struggle and balance between them is not ending, he is torn between fleeing to a new life or rebuilding his about brawn in this adaptation, but about intellect. homeland with a new love. After 12 years the king of Naples sails back to his kingdom from Stunning cinematography captures the wonder of this region. the marriage of his daughter to the prince of Tunisia. Prospera, Offering a rare look into Kashmir’s contemporary concerns in seizing her chance for revenge, causes a tempest, wrecking the counterpoint to its traditions and myths, it is a film about the ship and stranding those on board on her island. A visually value of home in a changing world. [subtitles] stunning adaptation of Shakespeare’s supernatural classic. [adult content] Musa Syeed Join the director Friday, April 13, 6p for Essential Transformation: Director’s Statement In Conversation with Julie Taymor (p10); and Sunday, April 15, 7:30p for the Awards Celebration where Taymor will receive the I had not been to Kashmir in nearly twenty Artistic Achievement Award (p9). years when I started work on this film. I always dreamt of making a film about my Julie Taymor parents’ homeland. It was where they spent their first years as a young couple, but it Director’s Statement was also where my father endured jail as a The Tempest was the first Shakespeare play political prisoner. I directed in 1986 with Theater For a New Growing up I heard stories about Dal Lake, the pristine, unique Audience, and I fell in love with the play waterworld where thousands of inhabitants row themselves and directed it three times. After Titus, in around island shops and villages. I discovered that the lake was 2000, I decided if I were to do another now under serious threat from pollution and overdevelopment; Shakespeare it would be The Tempest. It’s some predicted it could disappear entirely. I realized that it was one of his greats. I don’t think I’d like to do a Shakespeare film the perfect symbol not only for Kashmir but for all human without trying it in a theater first because the paired down resilience: beauty surviving in the face of destruction. minimalism—what you have to do in a theater—you would have to really do it with the actors first. It lends itself to the Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut cinema. It’s extremely visual, and in fact his most visual play.

Selected Filmography: Across the Universe (2012 AIFF), Frida, Titus Your Sister’s Sister

90 minutes n 2011 n USA

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Director/Screenwriter: Lynn Shelton n Producer: Steven Schardt n Cinematographer: Benjamin Kasulke n Editor: Nat Sanders n Music/Composer: Vinny Smith n Principal Cast: Mike Birbiglia, Emily Blunt, Rosemarie DeWitt, Mark Duplass

It’s been a year since his brother died and Jack (Mark Duplass) is not handling it well. After Jack’s drunken, self-loathing outburst at the memorial service, his best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) sends him to her isolated family cabin in Puget Sound to get his head together. Jack finds Iris’s sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) is already there, nursing her own broken heart after ending a seven-year relationship. After a hostile and awkward first meeting, the two cautiously bond over a bottle of tequila. They form a liquid alliance that leads to a more intimate, if somewhat desperate union. Early the next morning, Iris arrives unannounced and brings a new layer of complications, revelations and family baggage. This film offers nuanced performance, believable characters and dialogue that weaves a perfect blend of ironic humor and raw emotion as this likeable trio sort out their “issues.” [adult content, language] Lynn Shelton Director’s Statement We really lucked out in that Emily and Rosemarie are the most incredibly down to earth, lovely, charming individuals. They were both completely amenable to the “summer camp” feel of the whole experience, dining and hanging out with our small crew; they fit right into the family. So that was amazing. On set, they were completely game and total troopers when it came to the improv and it really helped to have Mark there because he’s so generous with his fellow actors and his confidence as a veteran improviser was really catching. I had prepared a 70 page “script-ment” with lots of written dialog (as opposed to the 10 page outline that I had prepared for Humpday.) I made it clear that they shouldn’t feel tied to the dialogue but that it was there if they wanted to use it. I think it was nice for them to have a jumping off point, at the very least.

Selected Filmography: Humpday, My Effortless Brilliance (2008 AIFF), We Go Way Back shorts

In addition to juried awards, audience members vote to Jurors – Best Short Film & Best Animated Short select the Audience Award Best Short Film: Dramatic. Winning films in all categories are announced at the BETH BARRETT, Director of Programming at Awards Celebration Sunday, April 15 (p9). Juried and the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) Audience Award Winning Shorts will have additional since 2003. She is instrumental in programming screenings on Monday, April 16. Tickets are on sale now! and management of SIFF Cinema at the Film Center and the Uptown, and other year-round programs. Award Winning Shorts AIFF Juried and Audience Award winning documentaries, ROBERTA MUNROE is the author of How Not shorts and animation To Make A Short Film: Secrets From A Sundance Programmer, heads her own LA based film Monday 3:40p consulting company, and is a master class instructor. She has worked on over 25 short & feature films as the producer, story consultant or consulting producer. The Science of Animation Saturday, April 14, 1–2p and Sunday, April 15, 3:30–4:30p MARK SHAPIRO has worked in brand development, advertising, public relations, Admission is free with your AIFF ticket stub! film production and writing for companies

shorts Be sure to catch the LAIKA behind-the-scenes including Nike, Town & Country Magazine and exhibit and Mark Shaprio’s special Upper Deck. In 2007, he joined LAIKA where presentation, The Science of Animation he manages brand strategies including the at ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum. marketing efforts for corporate identity and feature films. 56 Oscar Shorts Oscar nominated and winning short films.

80 minutes n Friday 12p The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (p61) Fatakra (p61) Pentecost (p71) Raju (p71) Time Freak (p73)

Academy Award winning animated short The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore 38-39° C The Maker Animation Shorts 8 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Shorts and documentaries in animation, stop-motion and more. Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Not for young kids! 65 minutes Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) shorts Thursday 6:40p, Friday 9:40p, Saturday 10:10a, Monday 9:40p Director/Animator/Editor: Kangmin Kim Abuelas (p19) Displayed in colorful stop-motion animation, a man enters a Avocados (p58) public bathhouse where a dream is induced by the intense heat Belly (p59) and steam. He relives a memory of his father. Surrealistic objects and patterns reappear, provoking a desire to rid his Luminaris (p68) father of a birthmark they share. Their past relationship ignites. The Maker (p68) Kangmin Kim A Morning Stroll (p69) California Institute of the Arts My Daily Routine (p33) Director’s Statement The film was my CalArts thesis film. The Song Of The Spindle (p73) Belly 57 concept came from when I was in South The Windmill Farmer (p75) Korea, from going to public bathhouses with my father and friends. However, since I came to the US, I only go to the bathhouse alone. In LA’s Koreantown there are many of them! One day I was in a very small and old one, with hot steam, spooky air that made me reminisce about my childhood. I have a very big birthmark and when I was a kid, I scrubbed the birthmark over and over to try to make it go away and it never did. So for me, the birthmark symbolizes many things that come from my father and mother; that’s why the character in my film tries to scrub again and again.

Selected Filmography: Deux Regards, The Night Wood, Visit

Short Stories I’m Coming Over 86 minutes n Friday 12:40p, Saturday 9:40p, Sunday 3:40p Bear (p58) BOY (p59) God and Vodka (p63) I’m Coming Over (p65)

The World Outside (p75) Boy Avocados Bear

7 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 11 minutes n 2011 n Australia

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Friday 12:40p n Saturday 9:40p n Sunday 3:40p

Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Plays in Short Stories (p57)

Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Animator/Editor: Kataneh Vahdani n Music/Composer: Director/Editor: Nash Edgerton n Producer: Lauren Edwards n Screenwriters: Nash Daniel Corral n kataneharts.com Edgerton, David Michod n Cinematographer: Adam Arkapaw n Music/Composers: Jack Graddis, Ben Lee, Ione Skye n Principal Cast: Nash Edgerton, Teresa Palmer n A journey through the many characters and cultures randomly bluetonguefilms.com encountered in a day in the city. We change points of views shorts from one character to the other and experience their day Jack means well, but even the best laid plans can go wrong— through their eyes. Illustrated in ink and watercolor, the film and Jack’s plans never were that well laid in the first place. A was animated frame-by-frame by hand. dark comedy about love, relationships and intentions gone bad. Kataneh Vahdani Nash Edgerton Director’s Statement Director’s Statement 58 The idea of this short film came to my head This film is a sequel to my short film during my visit to Paris. I decided to tell a Spider. I hadn’t really seen any sequels to story without beginning, middle and end. short films before and wanted to see if I This film is a journey of people in one day could make a sequel to Spider that lived up in an unknown city. to the original but also worked as a stand- alone film. I tried to capture the sense of humor in different cultures and make them interact with one another. There is no subtitle Selected Filmography: Spider because in life there is no subtitle. Whoever watches this film, depending on what language they speak, will laugh or be shocked at different times during watching it.

Selected Filmography: BOXES, Pink Balloons Belly BOY

8 minutes n 2011 n United Kingdom 10 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Friday 12:40p n Saturday 9:40p n Sunday 3:40p

Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Plays in Short Stories (p57) shorts

Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Julia Pott n Animators: Robin Bushell, Ben Cady, Eamonn O Director/Screenwriter: Topaz Adizes n Producers: Topaz Adizes, Bret Haley, R. Sanderson n Neill, Stephen Middleton, Theo Nunn, Julia Pott n Principal Cast: Robert Blythe, Cornelius Executive Producers: Santiago Dellepiane, Sarah Hendler n Cinematographer: Rob Hauer n Clarke, Olivia Gurney Randall, Joseph Tate, Laurence Weedy n juliapott.com Editor: Federico Rosenzvit n Principal Cast: Finn Greene, Jeff Wells n boyshortfilm.com

In a strange, mythical world, Oscar is coming of age against his A 10-year-old spends the day with his father and experiences a better judgment. He must experience the necessary evil of rite of passage that will forever change him. leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach. Both haunting and humorous, this animation was Topaz Adizes created entirely on paper combined with live action video Director’s Statement elements. This film came out of a conversation I had Julia Pott with a friend about the first time he killed Royal College of Art an animal. To me it was the perfect allegory 59 for the rite of passage from Childhood to Director’s Statement Manhood. What does it mean to be a Man? I employ awkward animated creatures to How do we pass it on to our children? What does it feel like? Do act out personal turmoil. I look to explore you remember the time you became a Man and the Boy died in how a seemingly small moment in a you? Maybe this film will remind you. relationship can have a substantial effect on you inside. The uncomfortable situations, snide remarks, or Selected Filmography: Americana; City; Laredo, Texas (2010 AIFF); Seven Miles Alone; accidental compliments can shape your entire connection, Trece Años (2009 AIFF) whether it be romantic, friendly or something else entirely. I use animation to externalize the bubbling internal reactions.

Selected Filmography: Howard, We Still Know Him The D Train

5 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 3:30p n Friday 12:30p n Saturday 6:30p Sunday 10:00a n Monday 10:00a

Plays with Tchoupitoulas (p38)

Director/Producer/Editor: Jay Rosenblatt n Music/Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich n jayrosenblattfilms.com/the_d_train.php

An old man reflects on his entire life and how quickly it all goes by. Composed of found footage from archival, black and white films. Jay Rosenblatt Director’s Statement I found this interesting educational film about an older man getting vocational training. I liked his facial expressions and one shot had him riding a subway in New York. This shot was the catalyst for the idea Photo provided by Jay Rosenblatt for the film. The fact that my father died a few years ago had at least an unconscious effect on where the film went from there.

Selected Filmography: Afraid So, Beginning Filmmaking, The Darkness of Day, I Just Wanted To Be Somebody (2007 AIFF), I’m Charlie Chaplin, I Used To Be A Filmmaker (2005 AIFF), Phantom Limb The Fantastic Flying Books Fatakra of Mr. Morris Lessmore 19 minutes n 2011 n USA 15 minutes n 2011 n USA Friday 12:00p

Friday 12:00p n Sunday 12:00p Plays in Oscar Shorts (p56) shorts

Plays in Family Shorts (p17) and in Oscar Shorts (p56) Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Soham Mehta n Producer: Ninaad Vaidya n Cinematographer: Iskra Valtcheva n Music/Composer: Samrat Chakrabarti n Principal Cast: Directors: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg n Producers: Lampton Enochs, Trish Samrat Chakrabarti, Meena Serendib, Conrad Gonzales, Ritik Goyal, Raj Vats n Farnsworth Smith, Alissa Kantrow n Screenwriter: William Joyce n Cinematographer: sohammehta.com/films/fatakra Steward Mayer n Animators: Beavan Blocker, John Durbin, Mike Klim, Stanley Moore, Dominic Pallotta Mikey Sauls n Editor: Eva Contis n Music/Composer: John Hunter n A father leaves India to chase his dreams in America; three morrislessmore.com years and a recession later, his wife and son join him. Fatakra (“firecracker”) tells the story of the sparks that fly as their This delightful story of people who devote their lives to books, dreams collide with reality, invoking the ancient story of the and books who return the favor, is inspired in equal measures by warrior Arjuna and the God Shiva. Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton and The Wizard of Oz. Morris’s books are blown away in a storm and his library is reconstituted Winner of a Student Academy Award: Narrative. by whimsical volumes that fly like birds. As he grows old he realizes that his flying books have the power to outlive him. Soham Mehta 61 University of Texas, Austin Using a hybrid style of animation techniques — miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation — it harkens back to silent Director’s Statement films and technicolor musicals while being old-fashioned and When I was writing the script, I was in the cutting edge at the same time. middle of my own long-distance relationship Winner of the Academy Award for Best with my now-wife. I chose to tell the story of Animated Short Film. an immigrant family as they take their first steps in America because it allowed me to William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg pay tribute to the experience of my own parents and many immigrants like them, while also mining the emotional terrain of Directors’ Statement my own relationship. We kind of decided early on we wanted to Although it touches on a major issue, the film focuses on one play with all different kinds of animation, William Joyce man’s struggle to prove himself a good father and a good and it seemed that just to think of it in terms husband. I was on the verge of getting married—the wedding of computer animation seemed too limiting. was actually just two weeks after the shoot!—so those were We were just so stoked about building both questions weighing heavily on my own heart. miniatures and having CG character and just doing everything we loved, like those Selected Filmography: Survivors old Popeyes, man. You know, we just wanted to just see if it would work. To actually be purer to the concept, we thought should see if it would work to mix 2D characters in. One of the happy accidents was Brandon Oldenburg when our animators showed up, the first day on the job, we did not have computers for them to work on. So, we knew that we had this 2D character and we said ”you know, remember in your third year of college? That 2D animation course? Let’s go back to pencil and paper guys. It’s gonna be exciting.”

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut (for both directors)

A Finger, Two Dots Then Me God and Vodka

8 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 29 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 9:10p n Friday 12:10p n Saturday 09:40a Friday 12:40p n Saturday 9:40p n Sunday 3:40p Sunday 3:10p n Monday 6:10p Plays in Short Stories (p57) Plays with The American Dream (p47) shorts Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Daniel Stine n Producer: Earl Bolden Jr n Executive

Directors/Cinematographers/Editors: Daniel Holechek, David Holechek n Producer: David Producers: Chris Swain, Debbie Swain n Cinematographer: Pedro Ciampolini n Holechek n Screenwriter: Derrick C. Brown n Music/Composer: Mogwai n Principal Cast: Music/Composer: Andrew Bird n Principal Cast: TJ Austyn, Tucker Davis, Veronique Megill, Derrick C. Brown n brownpoetry.com Kelly Owens, Emma Reaves, Daniel Stine, Cara Swain n rushawaypictures.com

How do we see our lives in the rear-view mirror of our own Evelyn and Ben have shared a quirky on-again, off-again mortality? In this slam poetry piece, relationship since their childhood — sharing hopes and dreams written and performed by poet Derrick C. and what life has dealt them. When their story ends too soon, Brown, the film takes a dramatic and hope- the power of Evelyn’s written word pieces together millions of filled look at life, love, death and what may shared moments, and an entirely new memory is created. come after. Daniel Stine Daniel Holechek, David Holechek Director’s Statement 63 Directors’ Statement When I was an undergraduate film student Nine years ago we heard Derrick Brown Daniel Holechek I first began crafting the story of Ben and perform his poem entitled “A Finger, Two Evelyn, two small town childhood friends Dots Then Me” and were completely blown who shared a unique and offbeat bond. The away by its beauty and scope. It was unlike town for the story’s setting is Brunswick, anything we had ever heard. Since then it Maryland—an historic railroad town had been a dream of ours to bring the piece tucked along the banks of the Potomac River. The music by to new audiences using the powerful Andrew Bird has something mesmerizing in the melodies and medium of film. lyrics that perfectly captured the essence of the film. His music became inseparable from the story. Selected Filmography: 305, Arizona, Moya, Obedience, Pyus, The 35-foot high perch atop “Beans in the Belfry,” a Temazcal David Holechek wonderfully artsy coffee house in a converted old church, was where the concept of the story originated after stumbling across it on a road trip. The belfry would become a centerpiece of the film, with the two main characters seemingly framed by the little open air space they shared.

Selected Filmography: The 14th Burning, A Bite in the Dark, Deninger, Grape, Jaike and Jaime, Zero Sum Game

I Want To Be Me I’m Coming Over

3 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 25 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Sunday 12:00p Friday 12:40p n Saturday 9:40p n Sunday 3:40p

Plays in Family Shorts (p17) Plays in Short Stories (p57) shorts

Director/Screenwriter: Lauren Selman n Producer: Pina De Rosa n Executive Producer: Jim Director/Screenwriter: Sam Handel n Producers: Lauren Ambrose, Sarah Gottlieb, Sam Selman n Cinematographer: Arthur Love n Editor: Mark Edward Lewis n Music/Composer: Handel n Cinematographer: Scott Miller n Editors: Christopher Dillon, Sam Handel n Joseph Gray n iwanttobemethemovie.wordpress.com Principal Cast: Lauren Ambrose, Mike Birbiglia, Adam Driver, Josh Hamilton, Brian Klugman, Hamish Linklater, Erica Newhouse, Joanne Tucker n imcomingoverthemovie.com Capturing the essence of the ageless question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” children and adults share their In an eccentric mountain town, neo-Luddite Matt Downing vision of the future, reminding us that the future depends on all struggles to maintain his fragile state of enlightenment as the of us being ourselves and following our dreams. You know it’s proprietor of a practice specializing in holistic happiness. This up to you—who do you want to be? quirky ensemble cast includes Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), Adam Driver (Gayby, 2012 AIFF), Josh Hamilton Lauren Selman (J.Edgar) and Mike Birbiglia (This American Life, Your Sister’s Sister, 2012 AIFF). Director’s Statement 65 Inspired by Tom Shadyac’s documentary I Sam Handel Am, I wanted to create a short piece that Director’s Statement could help children envision a new, positive and possible future from their This film is a love letter to my adopted point of view. I shared the idea with my dad home, southern Berkshire County, and my producer, Pina De Rosa, and together we gathered a Massachusetts. Having lived only in cities team and a wonderful group of people of all ages sharing their and large suburbs prior to my time here, I desired futures and what is important to them. have always been impressed by the incredible capability of the people in this From wanting to be a professional pop-star to wanting a family, more rural community. everyone who participated generously shared their thoughts and passions with me. It is our hope to share this film with as I used to call a professional when something minor went wrong many people as possible and to couple the film with a in my home or with my car. Now I call a friend. Solving my own workshop to empower children (and the adults in their lives) to problems with my own two hands (four hands including the create their futures! friend who actually knows what to do) fills me with pride and satisfaction. I came to realize that a lifetime of outsourcing Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut chores and repairs had led to a feeling of helplessness that I was in complete control of eliminating. I wanted to make a film that celebrated both my newfound belief in the power of self- sufficiency and my love of eccentricity out here in this little hill community.

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Little Horses The Lonely Pair

18 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 9 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:30p n Friday 9:30p n Saturday 9:30p Thursday 3:10p n Friday 6:10p n Saturday 9:10p Sunday 9:30p n Monday 12:30p Sunday 12:10p n Monday 09:40a

Plays with My Best Day (p51) Plays with Sawdust City (p53) shorts

Director: Levi Abrino n Producers: Mollye Asher, Meredith Kaulfers n Screenwriters: Levi Directors: Nick Hartanto, Sam Roden n Screenwriter: Eric Peck n Cinematographer: Nick Abrino, Luke Matheny n Cinematographer: Kai Orion n Editors: Levi Abrino, Doug Lenox n Hartanto n Editor: Sam Roden n Principal Cast: Eric Peck, Phoebe Strole n Principal Cast: Ryker Bullis, Patch Darragh, Rebecca Henderson, William Peden rodantibrosfilms.com

A bittersweet comedy about a small-town postal worker who Each insecure and vulnerable, two former 20-something high tries to win back his family. His efforts, centered on an unusual school classmates meet by chance and risk rejection on a lonely gift to his eight year-old son, highlight the tension in his and quiet New Year’s Eve. A moody, nuanced film about love relationships with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. that springs from companionship and charms the viewer with its subtlety. Levi Abrino New York University Nick Hartanto, Sam Roden Director’s Statement Directors’ Statement 67 I wanted to make a film about a parent’s We wanted to tell the story of a love for his/her child. And, I wanted it to be successful one-night stand that did funny. And, I wanted it to be something not end in sex. As we developed that both my friends and my parents could the characters’ inner workings, like. specifically their insecurities and Sam Roden, Nick Hartanto vulnerabilities, the project became Selected Filmography: I Ran with a Gray Ghost, The Lonely Bliss of the Cannonball Luke about confusing the physical urge for sex with the emotional (2008 AIFF) need for companionship.

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut (for both directors) Luminaris The Maker

6 minutes n 2011 n Argentina 6 minutes n 2011 n Australia, USA, United Kingdom

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Sunday 12:00p n Monday 9:40p Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) and in Family Shorts (p17) Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Christopher Kezelos n Producers: Christine Kezelos,

Director/Executive Producer/Screenwriter: Juan Pablo Zaramella n Producers: Mario Christopher Kezelos n Cinematographer: Matthew Horrex n Animator: Justin Alvarez, Rulloni, Sol Rulloni n Cinematographer: Sergio Piñeyro n Animators: Mariano Bergara, Amanda Louise Spayd n Music/Composer: Paul Halley n themakerfilm.com Becho Lo Bianco, Lucila Las Heras, Sergio Piñeyro, Juan Pablo Zaramella n Editor: Mauro Ruda n Music/Composer: Osmar Maderna n Principal Cast: María Alché, Gustavo Cornillón A vividly created fantastical world unfolds as a strange creature shorts n zaramella.com.ar races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life. Giving testament to the fleetingness of In a magical world controlled and timed by the light, a common existence and the power of music, the story is set to the man works in a factory making electric bulbs—but he has classical music of Paul Halley. something else in mind that could change the order of things. A stop-motion animation that also incorporates the pixilation Christopher Kezelos technique, combining real actors interacting with animated Director’s Statement 68 objects and time-lapse sequences. The film explores the preciousness of our Juan Pablo Zaramella moments on earth, the short time we have Director’s Statement with loved ones and the enjoyment of one’s life’s work and purpose. The film was inspired by an instrumental tango piece called “Lluvia de Estrellas” Selected Filmography: Annie, Forget Your Gun, Become One, DentaMate, Dentophobia, (Star Rain) composed by Osmar Maderna in For Doris, Margaret, No Butts About It, SMS, Zero the forties. I first became acquainted with this piece of music as a child, because my elders used to listen to it. I had always liked this piece but, as an adult, it gradually dawned on me that this music could be like a score of a film that had never been made. In 2008 I was granted a creativity residency by Abbaye de Fontevraud, in France. I decided to take this opportunity to develop this project. Originally, I approached the project as a puppet animation story, but doing some pixilation tests in the gardens of Fontevraud, just for fun, the seed of the present short appeared: the idea of sunlight as a magnetic force.

Selected Filmography: El Desafio a la Muerte, En la Opera, El Guante, HotCorn!, Lapsus, Sexteens, Viaje a Marte A Martian Picnic A Morning Stroll

6 minutes n 2012 n USA n In Competition 7 minutes n 2011 n United Kingdom

Sunday 12:00p Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p

Plays in Family Shorts (p17) Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) shorts

Director/Screenwriter/Animator: Patrick Neary n Producer: Michele Neary n Director/Screenwriter/Animator: Grant Orchard n Producer: Sue Goffe n Animators: Nic Music/Composers: John Askew, Jason Edwards n kinografx.com Gill, Grant Orchard, Max Stöhr n Editor/Music/Composer: Nic Gill n studioaka.co.uk

In this stop-motion animation, a hapless Martian and his When a New Yorker walks past a chicken on his morning stroll, companion have an unexpected encounter during an outing to we’re left to wonder which one is the real city slicker. Based on a seemingly barren asteroid: they are not alone. Whatever it is a real event from Paul Auster’s book True Tales of American Life, out there—it certainly wants their picnic basket. this animated film tells the story as it plays out over 100 years. Patrick Neary Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film (Animated). Director’s Statement Grant Orchard The Martian in my animated short started as a simple doodle in a sketchbook, and Director’s Statement 69 he’s a character I’ve wanted to build a film I’ve always loved this one paragraph around ever since. The drawing grew into a account of a city dweller’s casual encounter wire and clay puppet. The planet surface with a chicken, it was sweetly humorous where the film’s action takes place was and intriguing but also brilliantly slight. compact — only 2x3 feet, in order to fit into a small corner of Sometime during 2009, I was looking to do the home studio space where filming took place over the course a fun, quick project as a break from a large, of several months. Ollie the Martian stands only 4-1/2 inches ever-complicated script I was working on, and this seemed tall. The story was inspired by my cat Mooch, who does his best ideal. to steal my lunch when I’m not looking. Ultimately this new “small, quick project” ended up taking 2 I was very lucky to have composer John Askew and sound years to make. Instead of simply making one short story, I designer Jason Edwards jump onboard this project; their music decided the story would be 3 times better if I made it 3 times in and sound work give the animation a great depth and character. 3 different ways! There is something in the constant repetition of the story that intrigues and yet underlines the utter whimsy Selected Filmography: Landscape with Duck (2011 AIFF), Otis v Monster (2010 AIFF) of it all, and I like the narrative conflict in that.

Selected Filmography: LoveSport, Park Football, Welcome to Glaringly

Pentecost Raju

11 minutes n 2010 n Ireland 24 minutes n 2010 n Germany, India

Friday 12:00p Friday 12:00p

Plays in Oscar Shorts (p56) Plays in Oscar Shorts (p56) shorts

Director/Screenwriter: Peter McDonald n Producer: Eimear O’Kane n Cinematographer: Director/Screenwriter/Editor: Max Zähle n Producers: Stefan Gieren, Hamburg Media Patrick Jordan n Editor: John O’Connor n Music/Composer: John McPhillips n Principal Cast: School n Cinematographer: Sin Huh n Principal Cast: Krish Guupta, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Andrew Bennett, Scott Graham, Eamon Hunt, Michael McElhatton, Des Nealon, Valerie Julia Richter n raju-film.com Spelman, Don Wycherley n emuproductions.ie A childless German couple adopts four year old Raju from an In 1977 Ireland an 11-year-old boy learns to rebel against his orphanage in Kolkata. When the boy disappears and the Indian father and the community in a funny coming-of-age story. police give them little hope, the adoptive parents realize they Against his will, Damian Lynch is called in at the last moment are part of the problem. [subtitles] to serve as an altar boy at an important mass in the local parish. Following his last failed appearance as an altar boy, he is Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live serving a three month ban from his only passion in life — Action), and winner of a Student Academy Award: Foreign football. Film. To make matters worse, Damian’s team, Liverpool FC, is playing Max Zähle 71 in its first European cup final in two weeks’ time. His father Hamburg Media School offers him a reprieve and a chance to see the big game if he Director’s Statement serves the mass correctly. Damien now faces a choice: either conform to the status quo or never watch his beloved Liverpool This short film tells the story of a human play again. drama. A young, childless couple without the chance of getting a natural child comes Nominated for an Academy Award for Best to Kolkata to adopt a child, who then Short Film (Live Action). disappears. The most interesting part is the Peter McDonald thin line between scruple and empathy: How far is the couple willing to go in order to fulfill their longing for a child? To what Director’s Statement extent do they yield to their need and make themselves accomplices? Jan and Sarah are the living example for this I was an altar boy in 1970s “Catholic” moral conflict: Is there a right to have a child? Ireland and being on the altar is a very public event. Exposing. You don’t want to Selected Filmography: Alex, Haste ma...?, Der Untermieter get it wrong. The bigger the mass, the bigger the pressure. I am also a Liverpool fan. So I drew on those experiences to create the young hero of Damian. The juxtaposition of the world of a small parish with the behind-the-scenes machinations of a second division football club just grew and grew. It was funny and it emphasised the high stakes involved and the active transfer of pressure and responsibility from the adults (father and clergy) onto the shoulders of the young hero. Just like a junior football team and not a million miles from the tradition of Catholicism! They play out their story and Damian plays out his. For one beautiful moment he holds all the power. He decides his destiny. He makes a stand.

Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut The Secret Life of Bluebirds A Short Film About Ice Fishing

1 minute n 2011 n USA n In Competition 8 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Sunday 12:00p Friday 6:20p n Saturday 9:20p n Sunday 12:20p n Monday 9:50a

Plays in Family Shorts (p17) Plays with Gayby (p49)

Director: Kyle T. Bell n Producer: Dan Casey n Screenwriters: Silas Bell, Matthew Hayes n Director/Producer/Screenwriter: Jason Shahinfar n Cinematographer: Claudio Rietti n Animators: Joe Gorski, Greg Kyle Editor: Jason Yi n Principal Cast: Levi Adema, Zach Engelhart

What do birds do once they fly south for the winter? This Two friends devote a winter afternoon in rural South Dakota to animated film is a lighthearted snapshot into their bluebird life. their favorite pursuits: ice fishing, cold beers, friendly chatter, shorts man’s best friend, guns, and dynamite — all on a frozen lake in Kyle T. Bell the middle of nowhere. Director’s Statement Jason Shahinfar We began this film with one simple goal: Director’s Statement make ‘em laugh. Fortunately, animated filmmaking is a collaborative process My start in filmmaking came with a desire 72 requiring the diverse insights and inner to become a cinematographer. The idea of wisdom of multiple talents. Before we images, their emotional impact, and their knew it, our simple goal had blossomed ability to communicate in ways words into something rare and very special: a shared labor of love. could not, attracted me to this field. Before Together, we crafted a Chaplinesque cartoon that anyone could long I realized that it was possible to use that style as a director, enjoy while our goal stayed simple. After all, wasn’t it Charlie so I switched paths. Since then it has been my goal to use Chaplin who observed, a day without laughter is a day wasted? images in creating worlds that audiences could believe in and lose themselves as if in a dream. Selected Filmography: The Mouse That Soared (AIFF 2010) Selected Filmography: The Beach At Etienne, Cut From Home, Dead Horse Song Of The Spindle Time Freak

5 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition 11 minutes n 2010 n USA

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a n Monday 9:40p Friday 12:00p

Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) Plays in Oscar Shorts (p56) shorts

Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Editor/Animator: Drew Christie n Music/Composer: Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Bowler n Producer: Gigi Causey n Cinematographer: Luke Spencer Thun n Principal Cast: Drew Christie n drewchristie.com Geissbuhler n Editor: Geoffrey Richman n Principal Cast: John Conor Brooke, Michael Nathanson, Emilia Witson In this humorous minimalist animation, a surreal conversation between a man and a sperm whale takes place. Each one is A neurotic inventor creates a time machine—only to get lost in trying to convince the other that he is smarter. They go through yesterday. Through the narrative of a man lost in time, this the upsides and downsides of each other’s thought patterns science fiction story focuses on a personal story of regret, until the two finally come to an understanding. friendship and the sacrifices those closest to us are willing to make. Drew Christie Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Film (Live Director’s Statement Action). I heard a few years ago on the radio that Andrew Bowler 73 scientists had just discovered that some cetaceans had spindle neurons. Spindle Director’s Statement neurons have only been found in humans, Like many newlyweds, my wife Gigi and I great apes, and pachyderms. The spindle turned our post-wedding energy toward neuron is what has been called the neuron making a future together. We had been that makes us “human.” I thought it would be fun to imagine a saving for a down payment on a New York conversation between a whale and a human talking about the apartment when I was struck with the differences and similarities between their respective brains. inspiration for a short film comedy about a time machine and the power of nagging regret. Selected Filmography: Empress of the North; Fire, Fire, I Heard The Cry; For the Werewolf Have Sympathy; FT Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto; History is Us; The Man Who Shot the Motivated by its theme and not wanting to face a lifetime of Man Who Shot Lincoln; Obituaries “what ifs,” we convinced ourselves that the responsible thing to do would be to abandon our plans for home ownership and make a short film instead.

Selected Filmography: The Descent of Walter McFea, May The Best Man Win

The Windmill Farmer The World Outside

5 minutes n 2010 n USA n In Competition 11 minutes n 2011 n USA n In Competition

Thursday 6:40p n Friday 9:40p n Saturday 10:10a Friday 12:40p n Saturday 9:40p n Sunday 3:40p Sunday 12:00p n Monday 9:40p Plays in Short Stories (p57) Plays in Animation Shorts (p57) and in Family Shorts (p17) shorts Director/Screenwriter: Zachary Kerschberg n Producer: Ryan Johnson n Cinematographer:

Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Animator: Joaquin Baldwin n pixelnitrate.com Brian Lannin n Editors: Pedro Padilla, Craig Youngren n Principal Cast: DK Bowser, Duane Cooper, Ivan Del Pilar, Hassan Hakmoun n windmillsandgiants.com The charming story of a farmer’s struggle to save his crop of windmills from the cyclical forces of nature—told against a The story of a young man, just out of prison and on parole, who watercolor landscape. struggles to re-integrate himself into society in simple ways. He must learn to walk the fine line between living, and mere Joaquin Baldwin survival. Cameo by acclaimed world musician Hassan Hakmoun. Director’s Statement This film was inspired while driving back Zachary Kerschberg from a trip to Palm Springs, when a friend New York University said that it must take them forever to plant Director’s Statement 75 and grow so many windmills. I wrote down the title The Windmill Farmer for an idea to For the last twenty years the prison explore later, and about a year later I started developing it into population has been ballooning. This a character and story. signals flaws in our social and legal systems. With this film I hope to begin a Selected Filmography: Papiroflexia (2008 AIFF), Placenta, Sebastian’s Voodoo (2009 AIFF) discussion about how we support and reintegrate those released from prison. I moved to New York in 2009 and took up residence in Alphabet City, a neighborhood of projects and low- income housing. I met Ivan Del Pilar, who was the only employee of the Moroccan restaurant below my house. I decided to write a script about the restaurant and instinctively knew Ivan was my character. It began as a story about a younger, independent kid that needed help from an older guy who had seen it all. The actual shooting was tough because Ivan still had to prep and cook from 2pm to midnight, and then clean and close the place too. But he believed in the project and wanted the film to make a statement.

Selected Filmography: Angels

I Want To Be Me Not That Funny Song Of The Spindle print source Real Green Media Terence Berry Drew Christie Lauren Selman [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] notthatfunnymovie.com drewchristie.com 3:30 David iwanttobemethemovie. wordpress.com An Ordinary Life The Spirit Behind Bowmer Alex Williams Joel Fendelman Patricia Somers in the Park [email protected] [email protected] I’m Coming Over [email protected] Cici Brown david-themovie.com Sam Handel [email protected] 38-39˚ C An Oversimplification Kangmin Kim A Declaration of [email protected] imcomingoverthemovie.com of Her Beauty Super Sledder [email protected] Interdependence Cat Miles Alec Meyers Tiffany Shlain Incident in New Baghdad [email protected] 5 Broken Cameras [email protected] Tag! Kino Lorber James Spione ofherbeauty.com letitripple.org/a-declaration-of- Eli Turner Kate Brokaw [email protected] interdependence/the-film/ incidentinnewbaghdad.com Paragon [email protected] Ryan Pfeil Tchoupitoulas Michael Gottwald kinolorber.com DETROPIA Installation [email protected] [email protected] Christina Gonzalez Laura Green Abuelas [email protected] Paraíso rossbros.net Afarin Eghbal [email protected] detropiathefilm.com Nadav Kurtz [email protected] The Invisible War [email protected] The Tempest Walt Disney Studios Motion afarin.co.uk/#!abuelas Don’t Eat Something If Jeffrey Winter facebook.com/pages/Paraíso Pictures You Don’t Know What It Is! [email protected] Across The Universe Sergei Boutenko Pentecost Sony Pictures invisiblewarmovie.com Time Freak

[email protected] Network Ireland Television print source Andrew Bowler sonypictures.com Kato’s Challenge Eimear O’Kane [email protected] DREAMWORLD Rick Shaw [email protected] The American Dream Sneak Attack Films Little Plow Films rickshawoakstreetpress@ emuproductions.ie The Tsunami and the Ryan Darst Brittany Ballard gmail.com Cherry Blossom [email protected] Petrichor [email protected] Kira Carstensen sneakattackfilms.com Kyle Kinser: Made In Makanda Stacey Katlain [email protected] littleplowfilms.com Wonjung Bae [email protected] thetsunamiandthecherry ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight To [email protected] AQUADETTES Rescue American Healthcare Pipe Dreams blossom.com Drea Cooper Our Time Projects Little Horses Leslie Iwerks [email protected] The Universal Language Matthew Heineman Levi Abrino [email protected] californiaisaplace.com Sam Green [email protected] [email protected] pipedreamsdoc.com [email protected] escapefiremovie.com The Atomic States The Lonely Pair Pizza Deliverance esperantodocumentary.com of America ETHEL Nick Hartanto Cyle Zeibarth 914 Pictures Valley of Saints Moxie Firecracker Films [email protected] [email protected] Don Argott Musa Syeed Tina Leonard rodantibrosfilms.com [email protected] A Poem for Dick [email protected] [email protected] Love Free or Die Mo Costello valleyofsaints.com ethelthemovie.com Austin Unbound Sandra Itkoff [email protected] Eliza Greenwood [email protected] Vera Klement: The Fantastic Flying Books Pretty Piece of Justice Blunt Edge [email protected] of Mr. Morris Lessmore lovefreeordiemovie.com austinunbound.org Laney D’Aquino Wonjung Bae Trish Farnsworth-Smith Luminaris [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Avocados Juan Pablo Zaramella morrislessmore.com Kataneh Vahdani [email protected] Raju The Waiting Room Hamburg Media School Peter Nicks [email protected] Fatakra zaramella.com.ar kataneharts.com Petra Barkhausen [email protected] 77 Soham Mehta The Maker p.barkhausen@ whatruwaitingfor.com [email protected] Battle For Brooklyn Christopher Kezelos hamburgmediaschool.com sohammehta.com/films/fatakra/ Michael Galinsky [email protected] raju-film.com Walk-In Frank McEnulty [email protected] A Finger, Two Dots Then Me themakerfilm.com Return to Mississippi [email protected] Bear David Holechek Mamitas (Work in Progress) [email protected] Blue-Tongue Films Jordan Auten Paul Saltzman Water brownpoetry.com Bari Pearlman Nash Edgerton [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Four Daughters facebook.com/pages/Mamitas/ Robot Love btgproductions.com/water Ray Robinson 197239313631421 Belly Ross Williams [email protected] Julia Pott A Martian Picnic [email protected] WE ARE LEGION: bisondigital.com [email protected] Madbird Design The Story of the Sawdust City Hacktivists juliapott.com Gayby Michele Neary David Nordstrom Brian Knappenberger Jonathan Lisecki [email protected] Bidder 70 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] kinografx.com (Work In Progress) sawdustcityfilm.com We Live in Public George Gage God and Vodka A Morning Stroll [email protected] The Secret Life of Interloper Films Daniel Stine STUDIO AKA Bluebirds [email protected] [email protected] Kaye Lavender BOY Silas Bell weliveinpublicthemovie.com rushawaypictures.com [email protected] Topaz Adizes [email protected] studioaka.co.uk The Windmill Farmer [email protected] The Highest Pass boyshortfilm.com Shakespeare High Joaquin Baldwin Jon Fitzgerald My Best Day Alex Rotaru [email protected] [email protected] Erin Greenwell Bucksville [email protected] pixelnitrate.com TheHighestPass.com [email protected] Running Deer Films shakespearehigh.org mybestdaythemovie.com The World Outside Laura McGie Hold On Tight [email protected] A Short Film About Ice Fishing Zachary Kerschberg Zlata Filipovic My Daily Routine Jason Shahinfar [email protected] [email protected] David Lowery Chasing Ice [email protected] windmillsandgiants.com Exposure, LLC facebook.com/pages/Hold-On-Tight- [email protected] Paula DuPre’ Pesman short-documentary/ road-dog-productions.com Smoke Songs You Have the Right [email protected] 218251774885379 New London Calling Briar March to an Attorney [email protected] Matthew Bockelman chasingice.com Holy Rollers: The True Story of Alla Kovgan [email protected] The D Train Card Counting Christians [email protected] Sometimes Children Have Jay Rosenblatt Bryan Storkel The Next, Best West To Make Waves Your Sister’s Sister [email protected] Annabel Allen IFC [email protected] Darren Campbell HolyRollersTheMovie.com [email protected] ifc.com jayrosenblattfilms.com/ [email protected] the_d_train.php How Was Your Day? Ethan Page Samuel Wimmer the AIFF team

Mission The Southern Oregon Film Society celebrates the diversity of human experience through the art of independent film— enriching, educating and inspiring audiences of all ages.

Board of Directors Staff

Ed McNulty, President Executive Director Anne Ashbey Pierotti Ted Loftus, Vice President Ron Mogel, Treasurer Managing Director Jane Sage* Pam Leandro Notch, Secretary Director of Programming Paul Adalian Joanne Feinberg* Beth Hoffmann Operations Manager Board of Directors: (front row) Paul Adalian, Pam Leandro Notch, Beth Hoffmann, Ron Mogel, Michael Moore; (back row) Ted Loftus, Sandi Wendy Conner John Love Risser, Karen Smith, Amy Richard, John Love, Ed McNulty Michael Moore Systems Manager Amy Richard Casey Murdock

the AIFF team AIFF the Operations Support Historic Ashland Armory Sandi Risser Development Associate Sean Sullivan Manager Karen Smith Monique Baron Bruce Hostetler Systems Support *Programmer Jenna Portnoff Festival Technical Director Greg Babush Seasonal Staff Systems Specialist Advisory Council Krista Marie Olson Projectionists Filmmaker Liaison Alex Fountain 78 Robert Arellano Laura Pfister Box Office Manager Aaron Ridenour Jody Arlington Robin Williams Programmer/Publications Chris Simpson Jim Batzer Coordinator Event Coordinator Event Technical Advisor Richard Beer Laura Henneman* Awna Zegzdryn Ben Bellinson Preston Moser Susan Cain Travis Chaney Jack Davis Founders D.W. Wood and Brooke DeBoer Steve Wood Katharine Flanagan Lee Fuchsmann Founding Board Jeff Golden Member Susan Haley Pokii Roberts Gerald Hirschfeld Annie Hoy Miles Inada SAVE THE DATE Carol Jensen Joanne Kliejunas 12TH ANNUAL Gary Kout Maylee Oddo Darrel Pearce Howard Schreiber Staff: (front row) Jenna Portnoff, Monique Baron, Anne Ashbey Pierotti, John Schweiger Wendy Conner, Laura Henneman; (back row) Jane Sage, Sean Sullivan, Joanne Feinberg, Laura Pfister, Krista Marie Olson, Casey Murdock Jim Teece Joan Thorndike Maura Van Heuit Gwenne Wilcox April 4–8, 2013 Bill Fischer Diane Kish Trisha Mullinnix Mark Schneider Volunteers Audrey Flint Stephen Kish Roberta Munroe Maya Seligman Emma Frantz John Kloetzel Beth Murphy Mark Shapiro Stan Adams Jeremiah French Kelley Klosterman Janet Murphy Sara Shaw Swirl Alexander Annette Fried Susan Kohlmann Ken Nash Louise Shawkat Abdul Almutairi Gerry Fried Alissa Kolodzinski Abbey Nelson Lia Shrewsbury Bob Altaras Michael Friedl Lillian Koppelman Patrick O’Connor Andrea Shupack John Anderson Patricia Fuhrman Tori Kosct Josiah Olsen Josh Shupack Richard Anderson Dennis Funk Patti Kramer Rainy Olsen Ann Sierka Sharon Anderson Daja Gagnon Bella Krevitz Karin Onkka Steve Sincerny Sunny Anderson Brad Galusha Leanne Krieger Mabrie Ormes Anne Sloan Sypko Andreae Helen Garber Richard Krieger Dakota Otto Don Smith Jennifer Annen Dave Garcia Sue Kurth Linda Otto Marcus Smith Christa Argueta Alexandra Gastelum Janet Sonntag Aimee Ashbridge Shirley Gates James Spiering Regina Ayars Paris Geiken John Stadelman Bob Baker Alex Georgevitch Ellie Stanek Claire Baker Andrea Georgevitch Alan Steed

Terra Baker Aubrie Georgevitch Mark Stein the AIFF team Paula Bandy Forrest Georgevitch Erin Stewart Katie Barnes Gordy Gilmore Stephanie Stewart Beth Barrett Taylor Gimbel Victoria Stewart Jan Bayshor Steve Goff Linda Stickle DeAndrea Bean Milagra Gomez Rich Stickle Amanda Berkeley Kenneth Gordon Jennifer Stoke Michael Berkeley Samantha Grafton Gloria Stone Cindy Bernard Lee Greene Eric Strahl Michael Bianca Karen Greenstein Casey Swanson Camille Bianco Shirley Grega Brad Taft Donna Boehm Roberta Griffin Janis Taft Chris Bowland Debi Griffith Darlene Taylor James Bowland Constance Griggs Marty Thommes Shirley Boyce Heidi Grossman Anne Thompson Alrick Brown Al Grosz Vivian Toll Annette Brown Ron Guerrero Karen Toloui Matt Brown Tracey Haeckler Jim Tompkins David Bruce Barbara Hansen Kathy Tompkins Jessica Campain Linda Hanson Aleece Townsend Mary Canfield Patti Hartel Thuy Tran Jana Carole Maura Hayes Alex Landt Susan Palmer Margaret Turner Peggy Carson Sarah Heath Deborah Lang Louise Pare Marshall Umpleby Kathy Carter William Heimann Linda Lanzhammer Stephanie Parraz Mimi Umpleby 79 Ryan Case Judith Helfand Ian Larive Connie Parrish Maria Uribe Alissa Clark Michael Heller Catherine Larkin Lilli Patton Mandy Valencia Carole Colt Autumn Henderson-Brazie Arline Larson Akkie Pelsma Taylor Van Wey Jean Conger Kieran Henthorn Jo Anna LaRue Stephanie Peterson Venita Varga Harper Conner Michael Hersh Buddy Lawruk Martha Lee Phelps Marina Walker Rich Conner Allen Hicks Kelly LeBaron Tege Phillips Park Walker Mary Coombs Gerald Hirschfeld Patti Lefler Emma Pierotti Rad Welles Brynn Cooney Jessie Hobart Karen Leng Chris Pintozzi Trish West Shannon Cornish Johanna Hobart Crane Beth Levin Judy Plapinger Sandra Wetzel Catherine Coulson Cindy Hoeper Robert Levin Eileen Polk Doug Whyte Katy Cowan Deborah Holcombe Annette Lewis Sugeet Posey David Wilbur Merle Creller Molly Hollenbach Jean Linington Noreen Prince Julie Wiley Erika Cummings Anita Holser Peter Linington Claudia Puig Dan Williams Nicholas Dake Rebecca Holt Beth Lori Janet Rantz Debbie Williams Wendy Daniel Barbara Horton Betty Lowes Patt Rao Kathryn Williams Sacha Davidsohn Cecelia Howard Carl Lukens Tarika Reddy Janelle Wilson Lily Davidson Carol Ingelson Mary Lupinetti Melanie Rene Martha Wilson April Delbrook Alan Ives Vicky Ma Angela Riendeau Nina Winans Diane DeMerritt Lara Jablon Karen Machen Krista Robison Zachary Wood Lawrence Diamant Teddi Jacobsen Cori Magarian Mary Rogan Guy Wulfing Gary Dickson Terry James Ann Marie Magill Mike Rogan Mike Zodrow Cathy Dombi Sean Jeter Katherine Mahoney Regina Romano Skylar Zundel Laura Doty Mary Jimenez Hollie Mainville Sheya Rondeau Mary Zvonek Jaelle Dragomir Aura Johnson Jeanne Marinak Dana Rose Shoshanah Dubiner Rob Joseph David Markewitz Shanna Rose … and all of our new Jared Dunn Jasmine Karcey June Mather Helen Rosen volunteers and anyone Sally Ehrman Brad Kauder Jennifer Maynard Jerrine Rowley we inadvertently Peggy Elterman Eliza Kauder Suzanne McQueen Steve Russo omitted. Marla Estes Noah Kay Christine Menefee Susan Saladoff Dave Etchie Joanie Keller-Hand Teri Meyer Cynthia Salbato Pam Evans Timothy Kelly Carolyn Moeglein Tasha Schaal Maureen Fahey Frank Kergil Jerry Molinaro Sarah Schendel Steve Fenwick Tony Kerwin Peggy Moore Leah Schindler Kathryn Finwall Sally Kirkpatrick Marsa Morse AJ Schnack Joanne Kliejunas Carol Bue VIP Members Donors & Members Debra Koutnik Alan Burjoski Ginny Auer Susan Krant Bob Burton Mary Canfield Brenda Barca Margita La Grotta Lenna Burton Donors Cathy Carrier & Paul Isabella Barchard Wade Lange Terry Cain Collins Andy Batzer Stacy Lange Baiba Calhoun $10,000+ Christine Cassagnau Annette Batzer Eleanor Lippman Bryant Calhoun Anonymous donation in Karin Cherney Marsha Carlin Mitzi Loftus Brandy Carson honor of Tom Olbrich, Edith Chezik Steve Cox Irving Lubliner Mardy Carson AIFF Executive Director Wanda Chin & Terry Anne Decker Mary Maher Christer Cederroth 2003–2011 Dickey Chris Donchin Katherine Mooney Sylvia Chatroux Libby Edson Sabina Nies Kelly Chavez $1000+ Tom Davis Allen & Karen Drescher Steven Edson Maylee Oddo Karin Cherney Elizabeth Mandel Cindy Earle Cat Gould Bob Palzer Eileen Chieco Ed & Louann McNulty Carole & David Florian Jeannie Green Jody Palzer Victor Chieco Michael Moore Jamie Garrett Ken Green David Price Wanda Chin Amy Richard & Ed Pearson Dorothea Hatch Annie Hoy Sheldon Rio Jane Cho-Smith Sandi & Jim Risser Gerald Hirschfeld Krista Johnson Katherine Roselli Jean Conger Claudia Little $500+ Bernardina Ideler Rand Roselli Mary Coombs Roberta Jaffe Ronald Little Joan Rote Kathy Cooper Paul & Rosemary Adalian Brad & Eliza Kauder Carl Marsak Earle Sloan Ellen Corey Scott Blum & Madisyn Joanne Kliejunas & Irving Vikki Mee Vanya Sloan Karen Courtright Taylor Lubliner Kenneth Perkins Warren (Sagen) Smith Andee Creger Elizabeth Hoffmann Susan Knapp Patt Rao Lin Steers Alice Davidson Pam Leandro Notch & Jan Krawitz Raja Rao Harry Struthers Don Davidson Gerald Notch Mary Maher Louise Shawkat Linda Struthers Janet Hegna Davis Ted Loftus & Katherine Donna & Greer Markle Joan Sher Alberta Swan Linda Davis Mahoney Janice Marvin Paul Sher Evye Szanto Tom Davis John & Marilyn Love Rick Bleiweiss & Tamara Songster Victor Szanto Cathy DeForest Anne & Louis Pierotti Deborah Morgan Suzanne Spector Donna Taylor Frank DeMarco Karen Smith Beth Stark Joel Taylor Diane DeMerritt

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Amanda Iles Katherine Nabielski Sharon Skolnik Park Walker Carol Ingelson Michael Nabielski Chad Smith Sarah Walker Ann Istel Suzanna Nadler Peggy Smith Chris Wasgatt Edward Istel Douglas Nash Jenet Johnsen Doug Nasstrom Ann Johnson Karson Nasstrom Sara Johnson Kate Nehrbass Thomas Johnston Judith Newton Helen Jones Carin Niebuhr 81 Eliza Kauder Dennis Niebuhr Raul Keple Linda Niehans Thalia Keple Jacque Notrica Andrea King Pat O’Scannell Dale Kline Diane Olsen John Kloetzel Marlene Olson Susan Knapp Jim Orr John Koch Louise Pare Lillian Koppelman Heidi Parker Patti Kramer Jacqueline Parker Eric Kresh Margaret Parsons Richard Krieger Shirley Patton Sue Kurth Ginnie Pearson Yvonne LaLanne Larry Pearson David Lane Lee Perlman Patricia Lane Joe Peterson Deborah Lang Stephanie Peterson Jon Lange Martha Lee Phelps Linda Lavoie Joyce Baker Phillips Tim Learmont Steven Plotnick Karen Leng Leon Pyle Jean Linington Janet Rafalovich Peter Linington Janet Reavis Jennifer Longshore Stan Redkey Elizabeth Lucchesi Melanie Rene Stephen Lucchesi Deborah Rennie Connie Lynn Debra Riha Karen MacInnes John Riha Ann Marie Magill Chris Riley Mary Mahoney-Henie Barbie Ring Jeanne Marinak Eric Ring Donna Markle Ed Rizzuti thanks

Rich Conner Special Thanks Dagoba Organic Chocolate ACCESS Karen & Sid DeBoer AIFF Filmmakers Anne Decker Alchemy Botanicals Julie Downey, Gateway Barbara Allen & Jim Batzer Real Estate Jim Amberg Adam Driver Bill & Julie Ashbey Enchanted Florist Ashland High School Warren Etheredge Ashland Home Net Staff Family Nurturing Center Ned Babbitt Ben Feinberg Susan Babbitt Jack Feinberg Cindy Barnard Rachel Feinberg Brigitte Baron & John Fox Stephen Sander Elliot Goldenthal Jerry Kenefick Scott Roberts BendFilm Festival Greenleaf Restaurant Carly Koerner Lissa Roberts Brother’s Restaurant Harry & David Abby Kraft Ruby’s Restaurant Butler Automotive Group Billy Harto, Thai Pepper Donal Logue David Ruppe Tasha Butz Satay Bar Martolli’s Hand Tossed Pizza Ila Sachs Bob & Laurie Carter Mark Hatfield Daryn McLennan Cynthia Scherr Jules Cazedessus Hearts with a Mission Beasy McMillan ScienceWorks Hands-on Mavis Cloutier Larkin Svendsen Henneman Mt Shasta Spring Water Museum Jean & Joe Collonge Michael Henneman thanks Brian & Sandra Murdock Kay Lynne Sherman Chance Conner Bob Hershey Napa Valley Film Festival Patsy Smullin Harper Conner Marle Jandreau Kim Neufeld Soroptimist International Paris Conner Anahata Katkin Nimbus of Ashland Tom Olbrich Southern Oregon ESD Timothy Allen Olson Southern Oregon University Oregon Shakespeare Festival Alex Stephens 82 Pangea Brent Streeper Gracie Pfister Finnian Evers Sullivan Sean Pfister Julie Taymor Jessica Piekielek Ondi Timoner Emma Pierotti Barbara & Bill Tricarico Leo Pierotti United Way of Jackson County Louis Pierotti Vapur Francis Plowman Varsity Theatre Staff Port Townsend Film Festival Paul Westhelle Project A Staff Stephanie Wood RAM Offset Lithographers, LLC Christi Wruck Bill Rauch Sharon Yeung Jared Rennie Yogurt Hut Geoffrey Riley

453 Allison Street · Ashland (541) 488-2302 Schedule – Party n Ashland Springs Hotel Springs Opening Opening Night Bash 7:30–10:30p 7:30–10:30p 500 thursday Seats 90 min 90 74 min 74 Doc Doc n n Armory The The Highest Pass Chasing Chasing Ice 9:00p 9:00p 6:00p 6:00p 40 Seats

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12:10p 12:10p An Oversimplification Bucksville Sawdust Sawdust City The Lonely Pair 6:10p 6:10p 3:10p 3:10p The The American Dream Dots Two A Finger, 9:10p 9:10p 83 146 Seats

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12:00p 12:00p 5 Broken 5 Cameras Broken Your Sister’s Sister Your 3:00p 3:00p David 6:00p 6:00p 9:00p 9:00p of Saints Valley Water 9a 3p 6p 9p 12p 90 min 90 Panel Ashland n Springs Hotel Springs Schedule – It’s It’s Personal Filmmaker TALKback Filmmaker 10:00a 10:00a 500 Seats 72 min 72 73 min 73 89 min 89 90 min 90 97 min 97 4 /13/12 Shorts Doc Talk Doc Docs n friday n n n n In In Conversation with Julie Taymor Armory Oscar Oscar Shorts Oscar Oscar Short Docs 12:00p 12:00p 9:30a 9:30a We Live in Public We Essential Transformation: ETHEL 9:00p 9:00p 6:00p 6:00p 3:00p 3:00p 40 Seats friday 85 min 85 73 min 73 93 min 93 98 min 98 89 min 89 Doc & Short & Doc Docs /13/12 4 Docs Docs Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n Language Made Made In Makanda Varsity 5 Tchoupitoulas The D Train Austin Austin Unbound The Universal 12:30p 12:30p 10:00a 10:00a DETROPIA Kinser: Kyle The Waiting Room The Waiting Paraíso My My Best Day Little Horses 6:30p 6:30p 3:30p 3:30p 9:30p 9:30p Schedule – – Schedule 30 Seats 82 min 82 88 min 88 93 min 93 106 min 106 104 min 104 Feature & Short & Feature Feature & Short & Feature Feature Feature Feature n n n n n Then Then Me of of Her Beauty Varsity 4 The The American Dream Dots Two A Finger, An Oversimplification 12:10p 12:10p 9:40a 9:40a Sawdust Sawdust City The Lonely Pair DREAMWORLD 6:10p 6:10p 3:10p 3:10p Bucksville 84 9:10p 146 Seats 86 min 86 93 min 93 86 min 86 99 min 99 65 min 65 Shorts Doc Docs Doc Shorts & Docs & Shorts n n n n n (Work in Progress) (Work to an Attorney The Fight To The To Fight American Rescue Healthcare Varsity 3 Short Short Stories Battle Battle for Brooklyn 12:40p 12:40p 10:10a 10:10a Bidder Bidder 70 Have the Right You ESCAPE FIRE: 6:40p 6:40p 3:40p 3:40p Animation Animation Shorts 9:40p 9:40p 95 Seats 98 min 98 96 min 96 91 min 91 105 min 105 105 min 105 Feature Feature & Short & Feature Feature Docs Docs n n n n n The The Story of the Hacktivists Interdependence Ice Ice Fishing Mamitas WE ARE LEGION: A Declaration of 12:20p 12:20p Gayby A Short About Film 9:50a 9:50a Not Not That Funny 6:20p 6:20p 3:20p 3:20p Short Short Docs 9:20p 9:20p Varsity 2 Theatre 2 is not wheelchair accessible wheelchair not is 2 Theatre 188 Seats 92 min 92 90 min 90 80 min 80 90 min 90 110 min 110 Feature Feature & Doc & Feature Feature Feature Doc n n n n n The True Story of The True Card Counting Christians Varsity 1 12:00p 12:00p The Tempest Holy Holy Rollers: Valley of Saints Valley Water David 9:30a 9:30a 6:00p 6:00p 3:00p 3:00p Your Sister’s Sister Your 9:00p 9:00p 9a 3p 6p 9p 12p 90 min 90 Schedule – Panel Ashland n Springs Hotel Springs BYOD: Bring Your BYOD: Own Doc Filmmaker TALKback Filmmaker 10:00a 10:00a 500 Seats 84 min 84 83 min 83 74 min 74 97 min 97 82 min 82 saturday Doc Doc Doc Doc Doc n n n n n (Work in Progress) (Work Armory Return to Return Mississippi Love Free or Die Love Free 12:00p 12:00p 9:30a 9:30a Chasing Chasing Ice ETHEL Shakespeare High Shakespeare 9:00p 9:00p 6:00p 6:00p 3:00p 3:00p 40 Seats 73 min 73 89 min 89 93 min 93 85 min 85 98 min 98 Docs Docs /14/12 4 Doc & Short & Doc Docs Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n Language Made Made In Makanda Varsity 5 Austin Austin Unbound The Universal The Waiting Room The Waiting Paraíso 12:30p 12:30p 10:00a 10:00a Tchoupitoulas The D Train DETROPIA Kinser: Kyle 6:30p 6:30p My My Best Day Little Horses 3:30p 3:30p 9:30p 9:30p 30 Seats 82 min 82 93 min 93 88 min 88 104 min 104 106 min 106 Feature Feature Feature Feature & Short & Feature Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n Then Then Me of of Her Beauty Varsity 4 Bucksville The The American Dream Dots Two A Finger, 12:10p 12:10p 9:40a 9:40a DREAMWORLD An Oversimplification 6:10p 6:10p 3:10p 3:10p Sawdust Sawdust City The Lonely Pair 9:10p 9:10p 85 146 Seats 92 min 92 65 min 65 99 min 99 86 min 86 86 min 86 4 /14/12 Doc Shorts & Docs & Shorts Doc Docs Shorts n n n n n of of America The Fight To The To Fight American Rescue Healthcare (Work in Progress) (Work to an Attorney Varsity 3 The The Atomic States Animation Animation Shorts 12:40p 12:40p 10:10a 10:10a ESCAPE FIRE: Bidder Bidder 70 Have the Right You 6:40p 6:40p 3:40p 3:40p Short Short Stories 9:40p 9:40p 95 Seats 98 min 98 91 min 91 96 min 96 105 min 105 105 min 105 Feature Feature Docs Feature & Short & Feature Docs n n n n n The The Story of the Hacktivists Interdependence Ice Ice Fishing Mamitas WE ARE LEGION: A Declaration of Not Not That Funny 12:20p 12:20p 9:50a 9:50a Short Short Docs 6:20p 6:20p 3:20p 3:20p Gayby A Short About Film 9:20p 9:20p saturday Varsity 2 Theatre 2 is not wheelchair accessible wheelchair not is 2 Theatre 188 Seats 90 min 90 90 min 90 90 min 90 80 min 80 92 min 92 Feature & Doc & Feature Talk Feature Doc Doc n n n n n Schedule – – Schedule A Conversation with Ondi Timoner The True Story of The True Card Counting Christians Varsity 1 12:00p 12:00p of Saints Valley Water 5 Broken 5 Cameras Broken Breaking Breaking Boundaries: David 9:30a 9:30a 6:00p 6:00p 3:00p 3:00p Holy Holy Rollers: 9:00p 9:00p 9a 3p 6p 9p 12p 90 min 90 Panel Ashland Schedule – n Springs Hotel Springs After After the Credits Roll: Docs in Action Filmmaker TALKback Filmmaker 10:00a 10:00a 4 /15/12 500 Seats 48 min 48 62 min 62 Party sunday n Shorts & Doc & Shorts Shorts & Docs & Shorts n n Armory Family Shorts Family Locals Locals Only 1 12:00p 12:00p 9:30a 9:30a Awards Awards Celebration 7:30–11p 40 Seats sunday 89 min 89 85 min 85 93 min 93 98 min 98 73 min 73 Docs Doc & Short & Doc /15/12 4 Docs Docs Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n Made Made In Makanda Language Varsity 5 The Waiting Room The Waiting Paraíso Tchoupitoulas The D Train 12:30p 12:30p 10:00a 10:00a DETROPIA Kinser: Kyle Austin Austin Unbound The Universal My My Best Day Little Horses 6:30p 6:30p 3:30p 3:30p 9:30p 9:30p Schedule – – Schedule 30 Seats 88 min 88 82 min 82 93 min 93 106 min 106 104 min 104 Feature & Short & Feature Feature Feature & Short & Feature Feature Feature n n n n n of of Her Beauty Then Then Me Varsity 4 Sawdust Sawdust City The Lonely Pair Bucksville 12:10p 12:10p 9:40a 9:40a An Oversimplification The The American Dream Dots Two A Finger, 6:10p 6:10p 3:10p 3:10p DREAMWORLD 86 9:10p 146 Seats 86 min 86 99 min 99 92 min 92 86 min 86 95 min 95 Docs Doc Doc Shorts Doc n n n n n (Work in Progress) (Work to an Attorney The Fight To The To Fight American Rescue Healthcare America Varsity 3 Bidder Bidder 70 Have the Right You ESCAPE FIRE: 12:40p 12:40p 10:10a 10:10a The The Atomic States of Short Short Stories 6:40p 6:40p 3:40p 3:40p The The Invisible War 9:40p 9:40p 95 Seats 96 min 96 91 min 91 98 min 98 105 min 105 105 min 105 Feature & Short & Feature Feature Docs Docs Feature n n n n n Ice Ice Fishing The The Story of the Hacktivists Interdependence Gayby A Short About Film Not Not That Funny 12:20p 12:20p Mamitas 9:50a 9:50a Short Short Docs 6:20p 6:20p 3:20p 3:20p WE ARE LEGION: A Declaration of 9:20p 9:20p Varsity 2 Theatre 2 is not wheelchair accessible wheelchair not is 2 Theatre 188 Seats 80 min 80 92 min 92 83 min 83 90 min 90 133 min 133 Feature Doc Doc Doc Feature n n n n n The True Story of The True Card Counting Christians Varsity 1 12:00p 12:00p Across the Universe David Holy Holy Rollers: Love Free or Die Love Free 6:00p 6:00p 9:30a 9:30a 3:00p 3:00p 9:00p 9:00p 5 Cameras Broken 9a 3p 6p 9p 12p Schedule – monday 40 Seats 93 min 93 85 min 85 98 min 98 73 min 73 89 min 89 Feature & Short & Feature Doc & Short & Doc /16/12 4 Docs Docs Docs n n n n n Language Made Made In Makanda Varsity 5 My My Best Day Little Horses Tchoupitoulas The D Train 12:30p 12:30p 10:00a 10:00a Austin Austin Unbound The Universal The Waiting Room The Waiting Paraíso 6:30p 6:30p DETROPIA Kinser: Kyle 3:30p 3:30p 9:30p 9:30p 30 Seats 93 min 93 82 min 82 88 min 88 106 min 106 104 min 104 Feature Feature & Short & Feature Feature Feature Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n Then Then Me of of Her Beauty Varsity 4 DREAMWORLD Sawdust Sawdust City The Lonely Pair 12:10p 12:10p 9:40a 9:40a The The American Dream Dots Two A Finger, 3:10p 3:10p Bucksville 6:10p 6:10p An Oversimplification 9:10p 9:10p 87 146 Seats 93 min 93 86 min 86 95 min 95 65 min 65 4 /16/12 Doc Docs Doc Shorts Shorts & Docs & Shorts n n n n n (Work in Progress) (Work to an Attorney Varsity 3 12:40p 12:40p Battle for Brooklyn Bidder Bidder 70 Have the Right You 10:10a 10:10a 6:40p 6:40p The Invisible War 3:40p 3:40p Shorts Award Winning Animation Animation Shorts 9:40p 9:40p 95 Seats 96 min 96 81 min 81 Feature Feature & Short & Feature n n n n n monday Ice Ice Fishing Walk-In 12:20p 12:20p TBA 1 Check the box office or ashlandfilm.org to find out what’s playing! 9:50a 9:50a Gayby A Short About Film 6:20p 6:20p TBA 3 Check the box office or ashlandfilm.org to find out what’s playing! TBA 2 Check the box office or ashlandfilm.org to find out what’s playing! 3:20p 3:20p 9:20p 9:20p Locals Only 3: Varsity 2 Theatre 2 is not wheelchair accessible wheelchair not is 2 Theatre 188 Seats 89 min 89 Doc Schedule – – Schedule Feature Shorts & Docs & Shorts Doc Feature n n n n n Best Best Documentary Best Best Feature Best Best Feature Best Best Documentary Varsity 1 12:00p 12:00p Juried Award: Audience Audience Award: Juried Juried Award: Locals Locals Only 2 6:00p 6:00p 9:30a 9:30a 3:00p 3:00p 9:00p 9:00p Audience Audience Award: 9a 3p 6p 9p 12p film index

3:30 ...... 15 The Maker ...... 68 38-39 C ...... 57 Mamitas ...... 49 5 Broken° Cameras ...... 19 A Martian Picnic ...... 69 Abuelas ...... 19 A Morning Stroll ...... 69 Across the Universe ...... 46 My Best Day ...... 51 The American Dream ...... 47 My Daily Routine ...... 33 AQUADETTES ...... 20 New London Calling ...... 33 The Atomic States of America ...... 20 The Next, Best West ...... 15 Austin Unbound ...... 21 Not That Funny ...... 51 Avocados ...... 58 An Ordinary Life ...... 15 Battle for Brooklyn ...... 21 An Oversimplification of Her Beauty ...... 53 Bear ...... 58 Paragon ...... 14 Belly ...... 59 Paraíso ...... 35 Bidder 70 (Work In Progress) ...... 23 Pentecost ...... 71 BOY ...... 59 Petrichor ...... 14 Bucksville ...... 47 Pipe Dreams ...... 35 Chasing Ice ...... 23 Pizza Deliverance ...... 15 The D Train ...... 60 A Poem for Dick ...... 14 David ...... 48 Pretty Piece of Justice ...... 15

film index film A Declaration of Interdependence ...... 25 Raju ...... 71 DETROPIA ...... 25 Return to Mississippi (Work in Progress) ...... 37 Don’t Eat Something If You Robot Love ...... 14 Don’t Know What It Is! ...... 14 Sawdust City ...... 53 DREAMWORLD ...... 48 The Secret Life of Bluebirds ...... 72 ESCAPE FIRE: The Fight To Rescue Shakespeare High ...... 37 American Healthcare ...... 26 88 A Short Film About Ice Fishing ...... 72 ETHEL ...... 26 Smoke Songs ...... 38 The Fantastic Flying Books of Sometimes Children Have To Make Waves ...... 14 Mr. Morris Lessmore ...... 61 Song Of The Spindle ...... 73 Fatakra ...... 61 The Spirit Behind Bowmer in the Park ...... 14 A Finger, Two Dots Then Me ...... 63 Super Sledder ...... 14 Four Daughters ...... 15 Tag! ...... 14 Gayby ...... 49 Tchoupitoulas ...... 38 God and Vodka ...... 63 The Tempest ...... 54 The Highest Pass ...... 27 Time Freak ...... 73 Hold On Tight ...... 27 The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom ...... 39 Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians ...... 29 The Universal Language ...... 39 How Was Your Day? ...... 14 Valley of Saints ...... 54 I Want To Be Me ...... 65 Vera Klement: Blunt Edge ...... 41 I’m Coming Over ...... 65 The Waiting Room ...... 41 Incident in New Baghdad ...... 29 Walk-In ...... 15 Installation ...... 31 Water ...... 43 The Invisible War ...... 31 WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists ..... 43 Kato’s Challenge ...... 14 We Live in Public ...... 45 Kyle Kinser: Made In Makanda ...... 32 The Windmill Farmer ...... 75 Little Horses ...... 67 The World Outside ...... 75 The Lonely Pair ...... 67 You Have the Right to an Attorney ...... 45 Love Free or Die ...... 32 Your Sister’s Sister ...... 55 Luminaris ...... 68