14th Annual ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL April 9-13, 2015 ashlandfilm.org

PAGE 1 CONTENTS PO Box 218 Box Office 3 Ashland, Oregon 97520 Venues 5 541.488.3823 Support AIFF 7 [email protected] Welcome 8 ashlandfilm.org Sponsors & Grantors 11 Parties 14 Rogue Award 17 Connect with #AIFF15 Sneak Preview Screening 19 twitter.com/ashlandfilm Rebel Heart Filmmaking Workshop 20 facebook.com/ashlandfilm Filmmaker TalkBack Panels 21 blog.ashlandfilm.org instagram.com/ashlandfilm Locals Only & LAUNCH Films 22 Family Films 25 Awards & Jurors 26 SAVE THE DATES! Films 29 Documentaries 30 REEL to ROGUE: October 1, 2015 Short Documentaries 49 World FIlm Week: October 2-8, 2015 Features 59 15th Annual AIFF: Shorts 68 April 7-11, 2016 The AIFF Team 84 Volunteers 86 Donors & Members 88 The 2015 Festival art was painted on Thanks 90 location by Gabriel Mark Lipper Schedule 91 Film Index 96 Graphic design by CarterWorks

PAGE 2 PAGE 3 BOX OFFICE & MERCHANDISE The AIFF Box Office brought to you by MARCH 16 Tickets go on sale to Members MARCH 22 Tickets go on sale to the General Public

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE at ashlandfilm.org No service fee thanks to Project A! TICKET PRICES Films PRE-SALE TICKETS/WILL CALL General: $13 Seniors (62+): $12 the Information Kiosk, Downtown Ashland Plaza o Students (w/valid ID): $6 t P Member Pre-sale Dates: March 16-21, 4-6pm Oregon Trail Card Holders: $5 (Box Office only) E Online ordering begins at 10am PST Special Events R Benefactor, Executive O Producer & Producer Monday, March 16 Rebel Heart Filmmaking Workshop: E Director Tuesday, March 17 $20 general/$10 student

P Fan Wednesday, March 18 Back on Board: Greg Louganis

L Cine Thursday, March 19 Special Screening: $15 general/$8 student

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E Indie Friday, March 20 Locals Only Film Programs

O ! Friend Saturday, March 21 Free (ticket required) P General Public Pre-sale Dates/Hours Filmmaker TalkBack Panels Sunday, March 22, 4-6pm Free (ticket required) Check website for additional hours Parties DURING FESTIVAL TICKETS/WILL CALL Opening Night Bash: $30 Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., Ashland Awards Celebration: $75 Thursday through Monday, April 9-13, 9am-10pm All venues are wheelchair accessible except Varsity 2 (upstairs). Check with box office for ticket availability.

TICKET & PASS POLICY Get Your • No refunds and no exchanges • Membership passes are non-transferable AIFF Gear! • All member and pass holders must select tickets in advance to guarantee seating Available at the Varsity Theatre During the Festival 15-MINUTE RULE • Ticket and pass holders must be at the theater • T-shirt: $25 15 minutes before the show CO-OP! • If you do not show up 15 minutes before showtime, are the • Baseball Hat you are not guaranteed a seat and your ticket will not YOU (organic cotton): $20 be refunded • Poster: $5 RUSH TICKETS • Button: $1 • Sold when advance tickets are no longer available • Sold at the door immediately before showtime • Available on a first-come, first-serve basis depending Ashland Food Cooperative on how many seats are unclaimed after advance ticket-holders are admitted 237 N. First, Ashland, OR•541-482-2237 • Not discounted • Cash or Film Voucher only

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VENUES Varsity Theatre 1

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The 8 Oak St. rk 67 3 Ashland Springs Hotel 2 Pa 7 Plaza ia 4 212 E. Main St. Pioneer th Water St. P Li The Oak St. Opening Night Bash & TalkBack Panels P 6 2 G 1 Plaza Pioneer 4 Information Kiosk 3 5 P First The 8 P Oak St. Downtown Ashland Plaza G 1 2 Pre-Sale Box Office 4 Lithia Plaza

Hargadine St. Hargadine P 3 Pioneer Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant Second P First 5

P St. A P 51 N. Main St.

G 1 Lithia AfterLounge Third St. Hargadine P

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B St. B 3 Salame Plaza Bistro

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A St. A 8 To I-5 North N Fourth P 47 N. Main St.

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MAIN ST MAIN 4 St. B 1525 Webster St. E. MAIN ST Fifth

The 2 Oak St. St. C Rebel Heart Filmmaking Workshop Plaza Fourth Pioneer 9 Ashland Street Cinema P P P 2-hour parking lots 1644 Ashland St. G Films 1 BLVD SISKIYOU P 4-hour parking lots E. MAIN ST(approx. 1.5 Fifth 3 First miles from G All-day parking garage 9 Downtown Ashland to Concessions

Lithia Ashland St. Hargadine St. Hargadine P Cinemas) Varsity Theatre & Ashland Street Cinema Second • Movie Theater Favorites

P St. A 8 P 2-hour parking lots Webster St. Historic Ashland Armory • Water Street Café: wrapsP &4-hour more parking lots Third • Rogue Valley Roasting

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B St. B 9 Company: sweet treatsG All-day parking garage C St. C • Noble Coffee Roasting: coffee Fourth • Rogue Creamery popcorn WALKER AVE. P 2-hour parking lots ASHLAND ST. Free coconut water will also be Fifth available at the Armory courtesy4-hour parking lots E. MAIN ST of Big Tree Farms. P SISKIYOU BLVD SISKIYOU 9 G All-day parking garage Please help us decrease our environmental To I-5 South impact: bring your water bottle to fill at our venues, and recycle whenever possible.

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P 2-hour parking lots P 4-hour parking lots 9 G All-day parking garage SUPPORTYour membership dollars make it possible for us to produce AIFF our annual film festival as well as to offer year-round programming and educational events that foster meaningful community dialogue about the issues facing our world. Please know that we are only able to present this unique programming in our region with your support. Membership Tax Deductible Donations Support For a full list of benefits and to become a member, visit the box office or ashlandfilm.org. Our Year-Round Programming AIFF Basic Member Benefits: • Advance ticket ordering before general public (date determined The Board of Directors and Staff of the by membership level, see page 3) film festival are committed to: • Early entry to films before general public • Discount on year-round Special Screenings • Bringing a unique cultural • Recognition in Souvenir Program experience and community dialogue to Southern Oregon FRIEND* / $75 • Generating income to support our INDIE* / $125 local economy • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before FRIEND • Pass to pre-select a film in 6 time slots • Developing educational programs that both nurture a new generation CINE* / $250 of filmmakers and foster a deeper • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before INDIE • Pass to pre-select a film in 14 time slots understanding of issues facing our * $1 discount on film festival tickets world today FAN / $325 Ticket sales and membership account • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before CINE for less than half of our revenue. To • Pass to pre-select a film in every time slot (24) ensure the long-term success of the film DIRECTOR / $500 festival and year-round programming • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before FAN we increasingly rely on individual • Pass to pre-select a film in every time slot (24) • Opening Night Bash & Awards Celebration ticket donations from supporters like you. • Invitation for you and a guest to a Filmmaker Reception We hope you will consider a • Advance mailing of AIFF Pocket Guide tax deductible donation to support the PRODUCER / $1,000 non-profit Ashland Independent Film All DIRECTOR membership benefits plus: Festival. Visit ashlandfilm.org/donate • Ticket ordering before DIRECTOR (opening day) for more information. • Exclusive ticket exchange privileges We appreciate your support! • On-screen recognition during the festival • Invitation for you and a guest to two Filmmaker Receptions • Access to private Filmmaker Hospitality Suite • Advance mailing of AIFF Souvenir Program Can You Help Us • Complimentary bottle of Private Label AIFF Syrah GiveFilm? EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / $2,500 All PRODUCER membership benefits plus: For every $13 donated through • Ticketless entry to most festival films with exclusive reserved seat GiveFilm, AIFF will give one ticket • Complimentary festival parking at the Ashland Springs Hotel to a local non-profit. Find out more • Invitations for you and a guest to all three Filmmaker Receptions at ashlandfilm.org/givefilm. • Private consultations with AIFF programmer to assist in your film selection • Reserved seat at Awards Celebration BENEFACTOR / $5,000 All EXECUTIVE PRODUCER membership benefits plus: • Sponsorship of an individual film block during the festival, including exclusive recognition before each screening, in print, and online

PAGE 8 PAGE 9 From the From the Executive Director Director of Programming n behalf of the AIFF staff he convergence of story- Oand myself, welcome to Ttellers and filmgoers at a the 14th annual Ashland film festival is a unique and Independent Film Festival. enriching experience like no When my husband and I other cultural offering and is moved to Ashland several vital to our community life. years ago, we were drawn to I am convinced that audiences its great arts community, and I still want to see films together in became involved with AIFF as a movie theater, and even more a volunteer. I’m very excited for so, they want the opportunity WELCOME my first festival at the helm of to engage in conversation with this world-class organization. filmmakers when the lights come up. I want to acknowledge the tremendous efforts of our AIFF’s desire to keep this tradition alive is why our From the Governor’s Office From the hard-working staff and our dedicated volunteers. Without programming team spends countless hours looking at of Film and Television Mayor of the City of Ashland them, this film festival would simply not be possible. I thank new work, discussing upcoming projects with filmmakers, them for making the festival such an inspiring event for our and attending conferences to share ideas and learn from shland was my first ever elcome to the City community and our visitors. other festivals and industry members. The wide spectrum Astop in Oregon on a long Wof Ashland and to As downtown Ashland fills with filmgoers, I also want of creative voices we bring to the Rogue Valley each April road trip with two large dogs the 14th annual Ashland to thank the many sponsors who believe in and support completes this satisfying yearly cycle. and a dirty SUV, and I’ve Independent Film Festival. AIFF. You will see them prominently displayed in this We are often asked if a theme emerges from the fostered an affinity for this It is my pleasure to welcome souvenir program. When you visit these businesses in the films we see in a particular year. In 2015, I believe you’ll part of the state ever since. you back, or for the very coming days, please thank them in person. In addition to find our selections to be bold, courageous, and daring. When I became Executive first time, to one of our city’s our many sponsors, we are grateful to the City of Ashland, Director of the Governor’s Filmmakers are experimenting with style, form, and most entertaining events. our members, grantors, and individual donors. Office of Film and Television approach to their subject matter in very exciting ways. Each year, over 7,000 people One thing that makes AIFF special is the opportunity Venture forth and explore the cinematic choices of in September 2014, I did that same road trip and had my gather at the Varsity Theatre, first official meeting as ED here in Ashland. for all of us to interact directly with filmmakers, see award- AIFF15. I urge you to try something new, and maybe a the Historic Ashland winning films, and foster emerging talent. It costs a lot for bit different, this year. It’s clear this is a place of passion, insight, and creativity Armory, and the Ashland Street Cinema to watch films that speaks to many people. Including me. a small film festival to sustain these experiences. Did you from around the world or down the street. With the Joanne Feinberg It’s no wonder that Ashland was recently named the know that for every ticket sold, AIFF spends twice the continued support from the City of Ashland Cultural and Director of Programming #1 Town to Live and Work as a Filmmaker by MovieMaker purchase price? Your support makes our film festival Economic Development Grant, AIFF pursues excellence Magazine. That honor celebrates Ashland’s focus on the arts, possible. I hope I can count on you — our members and great quality of life, beautiful surroundings, and of course, in filmmaking and supports filmmakers here in Ashland — supporters — as we look ahead to the 15th anniversary of its commitment to independent film and filmmakers. including students through the LAUNCH Regional AIFF, April 7-11, 2016. Southern Oregon’s breathtaking locales make the Student Film Competition. Cathy Dombi Rogue Valley a highly desirable destination for film shoots. I want to thank AIFF, its hundreds of volunteers, Several high profile productions have shot here recently members, and locally based sponsors and advertisers for Interim Executive Director including Night Moves from renowned director Kelly creating an outstanding film festival year after year. It is Reichardt; Redwood Highway and the upcoming Black Road, gratifying to see the theater seats — and the streets of directed by Gary Lundgren — an Ashland-based filmmaker; Ashland — filled with film lovers for five days in April. and the highly acclaimed, multiple award nominee, Wild, When the films let out, do take advantage of our beautiful From the President of the Board of Directors based on the book by Cheryl Strayed, and produced by and town with a walk downtown or through Lithia Park; drop starring Reese Witherspoon. into shops from Main St. to A St.; eat and drink at Ashland’s offer you a warm A filmmaker’s film festival, AIFF is a warm and Ashland’s arts community has a unique status in finest restaurants and pubs: all the while holding passionate I welcome to the 14th intimate five-day celebration of amazing art, incredible Oregon, yet is connected to the rest of the state through our discussions about films wherever you go. annual Ashland Independent artists, and intelligent, engaged audiences. Our festival shared media economy. I invite you to learn about the long And if you see me around town, please say hello! Film Festival. Whether you wouldn’t be the success it is without our wonderful history film and media have here in Oregon as well as our are a seasoned visitor to the supporters — members, sponsors, volunteers, and staff — With warm regards, statewide incentive programs at oregonfilm.org. And while film festival or attending for who create all the magic. you’re visiting Ashland for the film festival, I hope you’ll get John Stromberg the first time, we invite you There are so many terrific opportunities to participate out and discover Oregon too — it’s an incredible place. Mayor, City of Ashland to experience the wonder in while you’re here — over 95 films, intriguing Filmmaker I look forward to seeing you at my first AIFF — I’ll and joy of independent TalkBack Panels, nightly AfterLounge, the Opening Night be the guy with the dirty SUV and road weary dogs — old Bash, Awards Celebration, and so much more. Immerse, habits die hard. film. Our films come from around the corner and around the world, and their art connect, and most of all, have fun! Tim Williams inspires and lifts us, their messages change the way we see Executive Director, Governor’s Office of and move in the world, and their humanity reaches deep Maylee Oddo Film and Television, State of Oregon within each of us. Board President PAGE 10 PAGE 11 Step up to Community Living! SPONSORS & GRANTORS

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Presenting Sponsors

Ashland’s only resident-owned 55+ community. MountainMeadowsAshland.com

PAGE 12 PAGE 13 Sustaining Sponsors Contributing Sponsors Housing Providers Anne Hathaway’s B&B and Garden Suites Ashland Cottages Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites Ashland Springs Hotel Bayberry Inn Blue Moon Bed and Breakfast Coolidge House Bed and Breakfast Country Willows Inn Cowslip’s Boutique Vacation Rentals Cycle Hostel Iris Inn Bed & Breakfast CarterWorks McCall House graphic design Oak Hill Bed and Breakfast Oak Street Station B&B Parkside Cottage Pelton House Supporting Sponsors Plaza Inn and Suites Stone’s Throw Bungalow Stratford Inn The Peerless Hotel & Restaurant Winchester Inn Wisteria House

proud supporters of the A special thank you to the Rogue Valley residents who provided housing for filmmakers and festival guests.

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Community Sponsors Ashland Wine Cellar Pangea Belle Fiore Winery, Estate & Vineyard Penny and Lulu Studio Florist Bright Earth Foods Rock Island Design Rogue Federal Credit Union Buttercloud Bakery and Cafe Sid and Karen DeBoer Foundation Connecting Point Computers Rogue Valley Roasting Company Taylor Family Foundation Dagoba Organic Chocolate Roxy Ann Winery Green Springs Inn & Cabins Shop n Kart Gardner Grout Foundation Hayden Teachout Photography Stoel Rivers Hill Station SunStone Artisan Bakery Indio Distillery and Tasting Room Thai Pepper Satay Bar Thank you to all our Sponsors Mix Sweet Shop The Lunch Show whose support was confirmed Mt. Shasta Spring Water Upper Five Vineyard after our publication deadline. Omar's Fresh Seafood and Steaks Water Street Cafe

PAGE 14 PAGE 15 FESTIVAL EVENTS Awards Celebration Sunday, April 12, 7:30–11pm Historic Ashland Armory Tickets: $75 (includes small plates, dessert & drinks*) Dress up and toast the AIFF15 Juried and Audience Award winners while feasting on delicious food and drink from the Rogue Valley’s finest restaurants, breweries and wineries. PARTIES Clips of all the nominated films will be shown.

Appetizers Noble Coffee Roasting Opening New Sammy’s Cowboy Bistro Pennington Farms Omar’s Fresh Seafood Bar Night Bash and Steaks Rogue Creamery Belle Fiore Winery Thai Pepper Satay Bar Caldera Brewing Company Thursday, April 9 Eliana Wines 7:30–10:30pm Small Plates Ledger David Cellars Ashland Springs Hotel Granite Tap House Roederer Estate Peruvian Point RoxyAnn Winery Tickets: $30 Salame Plaza Bistro Shop ‘n Kart – Jaxon Vineyards Taqueria Picaro South Stage Cellars Denny DeBey, Ashland’s blacksmith for Enjoy an evening of artisan …and more! Southern Oregon 40 years, designed and handcrafted Brewing Company food and drink with the the forged steel film reel given to our Dessert & Coffee Standing Stone filmmakers of AIFF15. Green Springs Inn Brewing Company award-winning filmmakers. Meet, mingle and Savor the Founding sponsor Rogue Creamery presents Savor the Rogue! Jolene’s Sweets Summit Beverages Denny is the subject of the short Rogue® — a sumptuous Lillie Belle Farms …and other local wineries & breweries documentary Reel Smith (p 56), an Artisan Chocolates selection of award-winning Food Drinks No Host Bar intimate look at his artistry and craft. Mix Sweet Shop *Your first two drinks are on the house! cheeses paired with artisan Basil and Berries Indio Spirits Belle Fiore Winery chocolates, charcuterie, fruit, Buttercloud Bakery Ledger David Cellars Caldera Brewing coffee, beer and wine. and Cafe Noble Coffee Roasting Company Gary West Artisan Roederer Estate Eliana Wines Smoked Meats Rogue Ales Jaxon Vineyards Lillie Belle Farms Weisinger’s RoxyAnn Winery The Opening Night Bash and Artisan Chocolates Family Winery South Stage Cellars Awards Celebration produced by: Rogue Creamery Wylie’s Honey Brews Southern Oregon AZ Catering & Event Planning The Lunch Show Brewing Company azparties.com Vintner’s Kitchen Summit Beverages NOBLE COFFEE ROASTING AfterLounge Thursday, April 9 Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant FRESH, ORGANIC, HANDCRAFTED Nightly 5p-1a Friday, April 10 No cover charge Salame Plaza Bistro 281 FOURTH STREET Saturday, April 11 OPEN DAILY 7 A.M. - 4 P.M. Brickroom Karaoke starts at 9pm! 541.488.3288 Sunday, April 12 EST’D 2007 Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant Join the festival community each ASHLAND, OR www.noblecoffeeroasting.com night at our no-host, after party. Enjoy some food and a fine selection of beer, wine and spirits. PAGE 16 PAGE 17 FESTIVAL EVENTS

ROGUE AWARD GREG Join LOUGANIS he Ashland Independent Film Festival is honored to Tpresent the 2015 Rogue Award to Greg Louganis, the Jim Collier four-time Olympic champion who is widely considered to be the greatest diver in history. The beauty and power of his athleticism has enthralled his fans for decades. in supporting the performing arts We celebrate his reemergence on the world stage as he combats prejudice, promotes tolerance, and mentors the in Southern Oregon. next generation.

Greg is featured in the documentary film Back on Board: Greg Louganis Saturday, April 11, 6pm | Historic Ashland Armory

Back on Board chronicles the life of Greg Louganis, from his difficult childhood to receiving universal acclaim as the world’s greatest diver; from pioneering openly gay athlete with HIV to an overlooked sports icon. With unprecedented access, the film reveals the public triumphs and private struggles of an American legend. Greg will receive the Rogue Award following the screening

Graciously supported by Barbara Allen & Jim Batzer, YouthSymphony The LGBTQ Juvenile Justice Fund of the Equity Foundation, Karen Smith, Pam Leandro-Notch & Gerald Notch, of Southern Oregon John & Marilyn Love, and a very special anonymous donor. Thank you!

PAGE 18 PAGE 19 FESTIVAL EVENTS Southern Oregon’s Your time. Your wine. FIRST Choice for News Indulge. AIFF15 SNEAK PREVIEW The Hunting Ground Saturday, April 11, 12:00pm Historic Ashland Armory

From the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers of The Invisible War comes a startling exposé of sexual assault on US campuses. Join us for an extended Q&A after the film with local educators, experts, and activists, and learn how Southern Oregon University is addressing the issue with Hitting the mark one wine at a time. their model program “Campus Choice.” Come enjoy our latest production. www.thehuntinggroundfilm.com Weekdays - 5:00-7:00am, 11:00am, 5:00pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm & 11:00pm

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541.488.2391 [email protected] www.facebook.com/carterworks Seven full days of critically acclaimed films from around the globe

PAGE 20 PAGE 21 FESTIVAL EVENTS FESTIVAL EVENTS WORKSHOP “If you have ever dreamed of making a movie but are daunted by the task, unsure where to start, or worried that your film will end up being yet another unseen indie, we will take away your fears and give you the information and inspiration you need.” – Rebel Heart Films

Rebel Heart Filmmaking Workshop “I found a way Friday, April 10th, 1-3pm to tell my story FILMMAKER Digital Media Center, Southern Oregon University $20, $10 students and to reach a TALKBACK PANELS big audience. A workshop for storytellers — actors, writers, artists, as well as filmmakers already Join us from 10-11:30am Casting the Location on their way. Led by Diane Bell and Chris Byrne, the award-winning team behind I feel like my job Obselidia (AIFF10), this class is a two-hour version of their two-day workshop that on Friday, Saturday, Friday, April 10, 10:00-11:30am bring people together to share experiences, techniques and more. Join them for now is to help and Sunday for A look at the creative side of location scouting and the personality that a well- insight into their “indie filmmaking revolution!” selected setting lends to a film. AIFF15 filmmakers disclose how a sense of place other people thought-provoking and figures prominently in both narratives and documentaries, and directors from rebelheartfilm.com engaging discussions with Southern Oregon will talk about filmmaking in Ashland, MovieMaker Magazine’s do that too. ” “#1 Town to Live and Work as a Moviemaker.” Presented in Collaboration with the Southern Oregon University Digital Media Center AIFF15 filmmakers and and the Digital Cinema Program in Communication. – Diane Bell Moderator: Andrew Gay is an Assistant Professor of Convergent Media, Southern Special Guests. Oregon University; and Southern Oregon Film & Media Festival Committee Chair.

Ashland Springs Hotel Subject Matters Ballroom, 2nd floor Saturday, April 11, 10:00-11:30am Documentarians know that a key element in the success of their films is the Free (ticket required due relationship they have with their subjects. AIFF15 directors discuss in depth the to limited seating) people at the heart of their movies and how this special connection is developed. Moderator: AJ Schnack is a filmmaker (Convention AIFF10, Caucus AIFF13, We Always Lie to Strangers AIFF13); and Founding Director of The Cinema Eye Honors for Non-Fiction Filmmaking.

Picture Diversity Sunday, April 12, 10:00-11:30am Does it matter if a woman writes your film? Does a cinematographer’s ethnicity contribute to the visuals of your movie? Lack of diversity in the film industry — both on screen and behind the camera — is well known. What can be done to make the business of who gets their story told, financed, and distributed more in- clusive? AIFF15 filmmakers debate the challenges they face to encourage diversity. Moderator: Claudia Alick is an Associate Producer, Community, for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and oversees The Green Show, Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration, the Daedalus Project and more.

PAGE 22 PAGE 23 FILM PROGRAMS FILM PROGRAMS Locals & Family programming generously LOCAL & LAUNCH supported by TC Chevy A showcase of films produced in the Siskiyou Region by local and student filmmakers. Locals Only screenings are free, but a ticket is required. Locals Only 2 Locals Only 1 Family friendly Friday, April 10, 9:40pm, Ashland Street Cinema & Monday, April 13, 3:00pm, Varsity Theatre | 46 minutes Friday, April 10, 3:40pm & Saturday, April 11, 10:10am | Ashland Street Cinema | 41 minutes As Apple Pie Pet Therapy Dragons on Wheels My Town Angelica Crimmins | Doc Catherine Orchard | Short | 4 min | Ashland 7 min | Ashland Julian Rennie, Amelia Snow | Tanner Mathis | Doc | 2 min | Doc | 5 min | Ashland McCloud, CA Launch College Winner An earnest young New Yorker Launch Grades K-5 Winner Launch Grades 9-12 A documentary that is equal struggles to find her creative voice. Helman Dragons explore the Honorable Mention parts Wild West and good old world with bikes. A teenage boy’s perspective apple pie. on living in a small town. Reel Smith Fill My Mirrors Laney D’Aquino, Denny Free Fall DeBey, dana knoke | Doc | Robert Arellano Maddy Schwartz, Ally Waldron| Passage IIII0 7 min | Ashland Short | 5 min | Talent Short | 5 min | Medford Nicolas Toll | Short Since 2005, Denny DeBey Launch Grades 9-12 Winner 5 min | Ashland A dad has to choose whether has designed and created the Twenty thousand feet above A journey of transition and to spend his last $10 on ice AIFF awards. Watch the the Atlantic, an engine fails, passage. cream for the kids. The rear- process unfold with this leaving James and Marie with view mirror helps him decide. master craftsman. an unexpected end to their Also plays in Short Docs (p 49) first flight. Ryan Reid I’m Not Jessica [M] Cole Coster, Theo Whitcomb Randy Granstrom | Short | VISION: Healing the Getting Ready Short | 11 min | Ashland 4 min | Medford Blind in Ethiopia Nicole Klau | Short This film depicts the daily A brother and sister, home Eric Perlman | Doc | 1 min | Ashland struggles of homeless teen alone, are visited by a demon. 16 min | Ashland Launch Grades 6-8 Ryan Reid. Follow the lives of five blind Honorable Mention Ethiopian villagers from A film about a blob who is Sticky Note Revolution Lost/Forgotten darkness to the moment that sight returns and beyond. getting ready to go to a party. Gabriel Giancarlo, Jackson Ryan Niemi | Doc Rice | Short | 2 min | Ashland 3 min | Klamath Falls JamQwest Launch Grades 6-8 A glimpse of the submerged Jerred North | Short | 5 min | Special Shout Out for Creativity forest remnants left behind Medford Two boys, a wall, and 4,600 when the Hyatt Dam was constructed. JamQwest aims to push the sticky notes. boundaries of both music and adventure by mashing them The Wizard and the together and catching them Non-Believer through film. Ari Bloch | Short | 2 min | The LAUNCH Regional Student Film Competition Ashland Little Houses Launch Grades K-5 The LAUNCH is a free contest THE JURORS Honorable Mention Ben Spillman | Short | for kindergarten through 3 min | Ashland The Wizard “schools” the Lee Fuchsmann is vice president of Coming Attractions Theatres, programming Launch Grades 6-8 Winner non-believer into believing undergraduate students that 150 screens weekly. She has worked in the industry for 45 years, and has been A boy longs to become small. in magic! encourages storytelling through involved with AIFF since its inception. When his wish comes true, he the art of filmmaking. Kylee Ruvalcaba is a former intern and former staff member at AIFF. She has a gets more than he bargained for. For more information, visit huge passion for media as well as student involvement in the arts. ashlandfilm.org/launch. The Saturday April 10, 10:10am screening is followed by an Awards Ceremony for Launch Regional Student Film Competition Mark Schoenleber was born in southern Oregon. He taught art at Ashland High winners. Prizes made possible by the Rotary Club of Ashland Lithia Springs Vocational Service Committee. School for 30 years (1983-2013), and has been the Fresh Start coordinator since You can also see Launch-winning films in the Family Shorts Program (p 25). 1995. He is an artist and innkeeper.

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Locals Only 3 A River Between Us J. Martin | Documentary | 90 minutes | Central Point Saturday, April 11, 6:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema

Chronicles the largest environmental restoration project in American history, which takes place in Southern Oregon and Northern California. The Klamath Basin Restoration serves as a backdrop to the resolution of generations-old conflicts among communities along the Klamath River. Produced by former State Senator Jason Atkinson of Central Point, Oregon. FOR FAMILIES

Family Shorts Family Friendly Feature Do you know a student 47 minutes | Ages 5+ Thursday 10:10am & 12:40pm | Friday 10:10am & 12:40pm Song of the Sea (p 66) Saturday 12:40pm | Sunday 12:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema 93 minutes | Friday 6:40pm, Saturday 3:40pm filmmaker ready to & Sunday 12:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema These nine short films are geared for kids, but their creativity will share their story? engage and delight audiences of all ages. The program includes 2015 Academy Award® nominee for Best Animated Feature animation from around the world and films from students right The enthralling story of the last seal-child, here in the Rogue Valley. Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic We are looking for storytellers for the LAUNCH Regional journey and discover the secrets of their past. Student Film Competition. The LAUNCH is a contest for Sticky Note Revolution* The Dam Keeper This delightful Irish legend features breathtaking, student filmmakers (kindergarten through college) in the hand-drawn animation from the creators of the Siskiyou Region. And it’s FREE to enter! COWS (Moosic Video) Pik-Pik-Pik Dragons on Wheels* Anatole’s Little Saucepan Academy Award-nominated The Secret of Kells. We start accepting films on September 1, 2015. Little Houses* Zebra The deadline to submit is January 15, 2016. Entry forms and more information at ashlandfilm.org/launch. Free Fall* *LAUNCH Regional Student Film Competition Selections “You may think that only experts get their film into the film festival, but that’s not true. What they are really looking for is something that’s creative and made by kids.” –Alex Meyer, 8th grade LAUNCH winner CAST for the Family Choice Award YOUR at the Family Shorts show. New PridePrize Award*: A cash award ($500) for High The whole family gets a vote! School student films that address LGBTQ themes. The VOTE PridePrize encourages diversity, equality and inclusion. * Made possible by the LGBTQ Juvenile Justice Fund of the Equity Foundation Locals & Family programming generously supported by TC Chevy

PAGE 26 PAGE 27 AWARDS & JURORS Best Short Documentary Kim Yutani is a Senior Programmer JURIED AWARDS AUDIENCE AWARDS at the Sundance Film Festival, where she Kate Amend is one of the programmers for US and • The Les Blank Award: Best Feature Length • Rogue Creamery Audience Award: is the editor of The World Cinema dramatic features, oversees Case Against 8, which received both the Documentary Best Documentary short film programming, and is also part Juried and Audience Award for Best of the programming team for Sundance • Best Editing: Feature Length Documentary • Audience Award: Best Short Documentary Documentary at AIFF14. She has edited Film Festival Hong Kong Selects. She two Academy Award-winning films, • Best Short Documentary • Varsity Audience Award: Best Feature is currently the Artistic Consultant for is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Outfest Los Angeles. • Best Feature • Jim Teece “Local Hero” Audience Award for Labs, and teaches at the USC School of Best Short Film Cinematic Arts. • The Jim Giancarlo Award for Best Acting The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Ensemble: Feature • Family Choice Award Athena Kalkopoulou oversees • The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award for the San Francisco Film Society’s Award for Best Cinematography: Best Cinematography: Feature AIFF Audience Awards are decided by festival-goers who Documentary program including Feature submit their ballots after the film screenings. These awards are the Doc Film Fund and Project • Best Short Film highly valued by our filmmakers. Don’t forget to vote! Development & Fiscal Sponsorship. Gerald Hirschfield A.S.C. is the She has over fifteen years of experience Director of Photography of 45+ feature in film production, distribution, and films including Fail Safe and Young exhibition in Europe and the US. Frankenstein. He is the author of Image Control, and a member of the Academy THE JURORS Andrew Kenneth Gay is an of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. independent filmmaker and full-time He received the A.S.C.’s President’s faculty member at Southern Oregon Award and the AIFF’s Lifetime The Les Blank Award: Best Best Editing: Feature Length University. His shorts and features have Achievement Award (2004). received multiple awards and over 50 Feature Length Documentary Documentary official selections at film festivals across the globe. Since 2013, he has served as Best Short Film programming director of the StarLite Danielle DiGiacomo is Director Vivien Hillgrove has over 42 Film Festival in Winter Garden, FL. Neal Block is head of Theatrical of Acquisitions at The Orchard. She years of experience as an editor. Her Distribution at Magnolia Pictures. He oversees the acquisition and release documentary editing credits include has recently overseen the releases of of documentaries and independent Heart of the Sea (AIFF03), and Future Force Majeure, Life Itself, and the annual films across digital platforms world- of Food (AIFF05). Her narrative film Best Feature and Oscar-Nominated Short Films program. wide. Recent acquisitions include credits include picture editor on The Jim Giancarlo Award for Magnolia will bring Sundance favorites Finder’s Keepers, Cartel Land, Henry and June and The Unbearable Tangerine, The Wolfpack, and Best of Digging for Fire, and The Overnight. Lightness of Being. Best Acting Ensemble: Feature Enemies to theaters soon.

Kristin Feeley is Director of Labs and Michael Palmieri has directed, Nancy Collet’s film industry Justin Chang is chief film critic at Artist Support Programs for the Sundance shot and edited many documentary experience spans over twenty years. Variety. He is the author of FilmCraft: Institute Documentary Film Program. films in collaboration with the writer Founder of Cinema Collet, she offers Editing (2011), a book of interviews Shes oversees four Creative Labs annually, and photographer Donal Mosher consulting services to film festivals, with 17 of the world’s top film editors. the documentary track at the Sundance including October Country, Off Label, distributors and filmmakers. From 1997 to He is a member of the National Creative Producing Summit, and the and Rougarouing (AIFF14 Juried Best 2007, she worked for the American Film Society of Film Critics and the Los Fellows Program at Sundance Film Documentary Short). Institute’s AFI FEST, producing seven Angeles Film Critics Association. Festival, serving over 150 artists annually. editions as Director of Programming. Bryan Storkel loves telling true and Eric Hynes is a New York-based unusual stories. He directed Holy Rollers: Liz Ogilvie is Director of Market Rosie Wong is Associate Director of film critic and reporter whose outlets The True Story of Card Counting Christians Programs for Fandor, a subscription-based Industry and Alumni Relations for the have included The New York Times, (AIFF12), and Fight Church, currently streaming site. She owned and operated Sundance Institute. She has served on Film Comment, Rolling Stone, Slate being developed into a series with Morgan CrowdStarter, a marketing and distribution juries at various festivals, including Starz Magazine, the Village Voice, Cinema Scope, Spurlock. Storkel edited The Internet’s Own company. She was a marketing consultant Denver Film Festival, Dallas Internation- and Indiewire. A longtime staff writer for Boy (AIFF14), and just completed The Bad at Tribeca Film, VP of Marketing at B-Side al Film Festival, Cleveland International the online film journal Reverse Shot, he Boy of Bowling (AIFF15) for ESPN. Entertainment, and Head of Programming Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival hosts the Reverse Shot Talkies video series. at Docurama Films®. and Nashville Film Festival. 2015 Featuring: Focus: The Philippines FILMS here are 98 films in the line-up for AIFF15 Focus: The Arts of Wushu Tand we are thrilled to present them to you. “The beauty and grace These works of art represent a cross section of Martial Arts in film” of the outstanding stories we have seen from independent filmmakers over the past year — Adrenaline Film Project from countries around the world, and also Premiere Screenings from here in the Rogue Valley. American We welcome student and emerging Experimental Media filmmakers, Oscar winners and nominees, AIFF alumni, and those who are screening at with special guest our festival for the first time. Scott MacDonald We look forward to connecting these APRIL 27–MAY 3, 2015 Fringe Festival outstanding filmmakers with our wonderful audiences. Enjoy! EUGENE, OREGON Full program released April 1 at: cinemapacific.uoregon.edu Q&A Many filmmakers Ratings will join us in person, Following film synopses throughout the program cinemapacific.uoregon.edu so please stay for we note “language,” “mature” and “subtitles” where Cinema Pacific is presented by the UO School of Architecture and Allied Arts and UO Academic Extension. Q&As after select EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity. © 2015 University of Oregon appropriate. Please read the descriptions fully for screenings. more information on each film.

PAGE 30 PAGE 31 DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES 87 minutes | 2014 | USA -1287 North American Premiere | 70 minutes | 2014 | Japan, USA | In Competition Back on Board: Greg Louganis n 1988, Greg Louganis became the first man to sweep the diving events hat will your last words be? After she learns she is going to die, Kazuko in consecutive Olympic games. His legendary grace, beauty, and courage faces her own mortality in deeply intimate on-camera conversations. She I W sparked a worldwide fascination with diving. This thoroughly engaging film challenges Japanese cultural and social norms by speaking candidly about her reveals the complicated life of the pioneering, openingly gay athlete who own life and impending death. As she nears the end, she grapples with what it revealed his HIV-positive status, at great risk to his career. With unprece- means to be honest and live happily. Her observations about love, money, and dented access to the four-time Olympic Champion, here is an intimate portrait marriage reveal the ever-deepening intimacy of Kazuko’s relationship with the of a still vital athlete as he reevaluates his life and reemerges on the world stage filmmaker, and, through his compassionate eyes, with us. A luminous portrait to combat prejudice, promote respect, and mentor a new generation. in courage, the film invites us to consider our own lives ... and deaths. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Ian Thomas Ash Director’s Statement: Cheryl Furjanic This film began when my friend Kazuko told me she TIMES Director: Cheryl Furjanic My producer, Will Sweeney, and I thought it was crazy was dying. Her doctor had told her she had just three Producers: Cheryl Furjanic, that there wasn’t a recent feature documentary about Will Sweeney TIMES Director & Cinematographer: or four years left to live. We talked often during her Saturday 6:00pm Greg’s story. Especially one that introduces Greg to Ian Thomas Ash final years, and I eventually asked if I could film our Executive Producers: younger audiences who haven’t heard of him. We want David & Joan Kaplan, Grey Sample Thursday 12:10pm Producers: Sarah Lushia, conversations. While at times she seemed to struggle Greg Louganis will this film to cement Greg’s legacy and importance in Co-Producers: Karen Sim Friday 6:10pm Colin O’Neill with knowing that she was going to die, she also knew receive the AIFF15 sports history, LGBT history, and the history of the HIV Rogue Award after Screenwriters: Cheryl Furjanic, Editors: Ian Thomas Ash, Ed Ison that she had no time to waste. I was intrigued by the epidemic. And in many ways, I think of this film as a letter to my 16-year-old Saturday 3:10pm the screening. Karen Sim, Will Sweeney Story Editor: Sarah Lushia ways in which Kazuko’s thinking and the way she described those thoughts self — an effort to create LGBT media that I wish had been available to me Sunday 12:10pm Cinematographers: changed over time. And I was deeply moved when she shared with me what Sunday 6:10pm Nicolas de Miranda, Kira Kelly growing up. the process of making the film itself had meant to her, particularly in the last P L A Y S W I T H : Monday 9:40am Editors: Karen Sim, You Have the Right Selected Filmography: Sync or Swim months of her life. Shortly before she died, Kazuko whispered to me, “I never Jessica M. Thompson thought you would come this far with me.” to an Attorney Music: Thomas Rutishauser(page 45) Selected Filmography: In the Grey Zone, A2-B-C Animator: Molly Schwartz

3 1/2 Minutes 98 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition 1/2 Minutes dissects the aftermath of the murder of a law-abiding, 3middle-class black teenager, 17-year-old Jordan Davis, and the trial of the middle-aged white man, Michael Dunn, who killed him. Dunn fired a gun ten times at Jordan and his friends for playing their music too loudly at a Florida gas station. Exclusive footage from Dunn’s police interrogation, his murder trial, and conversations with his girlfriend who was with him in the car are intercut with intimate scenes of Jordan’s grieving parents and friends. Calling into question Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, this powerful film reveals the human side of grief and loss, the devastating effects of racial bias, and the search for justice inside and outside the American judicial system. [mature] Director’s Statement: Marc Silver TIMES Director & Cinematographer: Marc Silver I made 3 1/2 Minutes because I was fascinated by how Thursday 3:00pm Producers: Carolyn Hepburn, racial profiling, gun rights, and self-defense laws came Friday 12:00pm Minette Nelson together to tragic effect. Jordan’s murder was not tried Saturday 9:30am Executive Producers: as a hate crime, and many denied race was a factor. Orlando Bagwell, Bonni Cohen, Meanwhile, on the streets and in the media, the case Julie Goldman, Jeff Skoll, was all about race. To me, Michael Dunn symbolizes Diane Weyermann racism in the US, which brands itself as postracial but Co-Producer: David Eckles has never overcome its long history. We cannot continue upholding the Editor: Emiliano Battista myth that racism is over; we need to name the mess we are in if we are ever going to emerge. Selected Filmography: Who is Dayani Cristal?

PAGE 32 PAGE 33 DOCUMENTARIES Get drawn in... BARGE 71 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition TO ASHLAND’S VISUAL ARTS towboat drifts down the Mississippi River, on its way to the port of New AOrleans. This is a barge whose life is the water, the banks, and the bright lights ahead. On board, dry land’s misfits find purpose and direction as the steady hands who move a few million tons of cargo up and down the river each year. A green deckhand; a former convict working his way up to first mate; an engineer with 38 years of experience, in no hurry to retire; and an ancient waterway pulling a double shift as the backbone of a national economy. As long as the boat is moving, they’re making money. Through the exquisitely observed details of modern river travel, this is a meditation on the importance First Friday Art Walk of a meaningful job and the machinery of American ambitions. [language] A Taste of Ashland Director’s Statement: Ben Powell Open Studios Tour TIMES Director & Screenwriter: These are not my stories to tell. These stories are told by Ben Powell COMPM LIL MEENTNTARARY ASHLANA D GALLLLERY ASSOCIATION / 2015 the men and women of the Mary Parker and the Napoleon. Thursday 12:30pm Producers: Ben Powell, Pride, passion, scars. A sense of humor. So powerful is Complimentary Friday 6:30pm Dave Schachter their contribution, we deem it inevitable. From the dry Gallery Guide at Saturday 10:00am Executive Producer: side of the levee, it is easy to forget that these men and Michael Watt Participating Sunday 12:30pm women are defined by the water running underneath, and Establishments Cinematographers: require incalculable ingenuity and perseverance to master this great force of Monday 3:30pm Andrew Alden Miller, Ben Powell nature. This is how their stories are told. This is how I deliver them to port. Editor: Ryan Gould Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut AshlandGalleries.com Music: Billy Martin, Will Patterson Facebook.com/AshlandGalleries @AshlandGalleries #ArtsLand

Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World 87 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition 12TH ANNUAL he heartwarming story of 5-year-old Miles Scott who loves superheroes — Tespecially Batman. In remission from leukemia, Miles dreams of being Batkid. The Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation thinks bigger: why not turn San Francisco into Gotham City? What starts out as an event for family and friends suddenly goes viral and spawns thousands of news stories, emails, texts — even its own hashtag! With the help of hundreds, including the police chief and mayor, Miles foils the bad guys and rescues the innocent all over town. More than 25,000 people cheer him on in person, while two billion more follow online. For one day, one little boy captures the hearts of the 2015 entire world in an unprecedented display of collective emotion and a joyful october 8 - 11 celebration that made everyone’s wish come true. Director’s Statement: Dana Nachman TIMES Director: Dana Nachman Producers: Liza Meak, It seemed like everyone had heard about Batkid either Sunday 12:00pm Dana Nachman in San Francisco itself or on the Internet. I was not one Submit Today! Next Deadline: May 25, 2015 Executive Producers: of these people. In fact, I missed the whole thing. A few Sponsored by John Crane, Ian Reinhhard days later, all these people were talking about it and how Ashland Home Co-Producer: Judy Caminer emotional it was for them and how amazing it was that BendFilm is a proud partner of AIFF in celebrating Net / Project A Screenwriters: Kurt Kuenne, it went THAT viral. Meanwhile, my three kids had been (Jim Teece & Dana Nachman badgering me about my films. Why couldn’t I make a film that they would independent film and filmmaking throughout Oregon! Dena Matthews) Cinematographers: like? So, while running one morning, I started daydreaming about Batkid. Don Hardy, Naomi Ture Selected Filmography: Love Hate Love, The Human Experiment Editor: Kurt Kuenne bendfilm.org Music: Dave Tweedie Animator: Rob Simmons

PAGE 34 PAGE 35 DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES Cartel Land 98 minutes | 2015 | Mexico, USA | In Competition FRAME BY FRAME 83 minutes | 2015 | Afghanistan, USA | In Competition

ilmed with exceptional access, this is a spellbinding exposé of the vigilante nder the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, taking a photograph was a Fgroups fighting against the vicious drug cartels in the area known as Ucrime. After the US invaded, the media ban was lifted. This astonishing “Cocaine Alley” south of Tucson, Arizona, and in Michoacán, Mexico. documentary follows four photojournalists as they reclaim the right to show Focusing on the efforts of veteran Tim “Nailer” Foley — who heads a para- and tell the story of their country. As foreign troops and international media military group fighting to keep the drug wars from seeping into the US — and withdraw under the looming threat of civil war, these four intrepid photo- Dr. José Mireles — a Mexican doctor who shepherds a citizen uprising against graphers navigate an emerging, yet dangerous media landscape. Through the violent drug cartel — the film is a chilling meditation on the breakdown of intimate interviews, secret archival footage, and powerful pictures of the order and the blurry line between good and evil. [mature] struggles of everyday Afghan people, the film portrays the courage of these journalists as they endure the realities of building a free press — and reframing Director’s Statement: Matthew Heineman Afghanistan — for the world and for themselves. [mature, subtitles] At its heart, this is a vérité film shot mainly in Director: Matthew Heineman TIMES run-and-gun situations. As much as possible, Directors’ Statement: Producers: Matthew Heineman, my goal was to make the doc feel like a narrative Directors, Screenwriters & Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli Tom Yellin TIMES Friday 3:00pm film — the setting, the situations, the characters Cinematographers: Media coverage of Afghanistan often reduces it to a Executive Producers: Saturday 9:00pm were all very cinematic, so I tried to capture it Friday 9:30am Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli war torn region, wrought with suicide bombs, political Sunday 6:00pm Robert DeBitetto, David McKillop, Producers: Alexandria Bombach, Molly Thompson in this way. For our interviews (which were shot Saturday 12:00pm corruption, and Islamic fundamentalism. But we knew from the side with me asking questions directly Sunday 9:00pm Jeff Orlowski, Mo Scarpelli there had to be a much more human story. We traveled to Cinematographers: Executive Producers: Matthew Heineman, Matt Porwoll behind the camera), I wanted our subjects to look directly into the lens for two Afghanistan in 2012 in search of a story about perception. reasons. First, I wanted it to play like the rest of the film: intimate and without Nancy Schafer, Louis Venezia In Kabul, we met four incredible local photojournalists Editors: Matthew Hamachek, Co-Producer: Brock Williams Matthew Heineman, Bradley J. Ross, my presence. Second, in some sense, the film is a complex morality tale, and whose own truths inform their will to take ownership Pax Wassermann I wanted the interviews to feel like testimonials — like it was their version of Associate Producers: Doug Blush, of Afghanistan’s story. They reveal a humanness rarely Trevor Hall, Stacey Piculell Composers: Jackson Greenberg, the truth. captured by foreign media. Through their lenses, we Editor: Alexandria Bombach H. Scott Salinas Selected Filmography: Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (AIFF12) show a unique view of life in the country today and the Music: Patrick Jonsson issues Afghans face as they stand on their own. Selected Filmography: Alexandria Bombach — Common Ground; Mo Scarpelli — Bob’s House, Myama Against The Odds

Florence, Arizona 79 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey 90 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition tapestry of Americana seen through the eyes of four residents of Florence, A Arizona — a cowboy town surrounded by nine prisons. Founded in 1866, al Holbrook first walked onstage as Mark Twain in 1954 and has performed this bastion of the Wild West is home to 8,500 civilians and 17,000 inmates. Seen Hhis renowned one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! every year since. He through an unconventional lens, this documentary weaves together the personal has performed in all 50 states, in 20 countries, on Broadway, and before five stories of Lina, a sensitive, New Age mayoral candidate; Gunny, a Vietnam US Presidents. Generations have seen the show, and countless actors have been veteran, cowboy poet, and correctional officer; Marcus, a young man searching influenced by his work. This documentary, at once an exploration of the for permanence without much success outside of a jail cell; and Andy, the actor’s craft and a revealing study of the relevance of Twain’s writings today, is a ex-con town barber whose family has been in Florence for seven generations. behind-the-scenes look into the heart of America’s most esteemed satirist and An intricately crafted view of a small town with a prison problem, told with the actor who has brought him to life for nearly 60 years. Featuring Sean Penn, humor, intimacy, and pathos, revealing as much about ourselves as it does about Richard Chamberlain, Annie Potts, and Martin Sheen. the modern prison state. Director’s Statement: Scott Teems Director, Screenwriter, TIMES Director’s Statement: Andrea B. Scott I first met Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter (Hal’s Cinematographer: When my friend David first showed me his photo- Andrea B. Scott Director: Scott Teems wife) in 2008. At that first meeting, Dixie told me Thursday 9:30pm graphs of “this small town in rural Arizona with TIMES Producers: Devorah Brand, Producer: Laura D. Smith her longtime dream was to see a film made about Friday 3:30pm nine prisons,” it piqued a sense of outrage, but Andrea B. Scott Friday 3:00pm Cinematographer: Rodney Taylor the Twain show. And she told me I was the one who Saturday 6:30pm also curiosity in me. Here was a McDonald’s with Executive Producers: Editor: Anthony Innarelli would make it! As anyone who ever had the privilege Sunday 6:30pm an Immigration Detention Center in its shadows; Julie Goldman, David Menschel Sponsored by Music: Heather McIntosh to know her can attest, she could be a very persuasive a Sonic drive-through looked at by orange-suited Monday 10:00am Editors: Benjamin Gray, Rogue Creamery woman. So she kept on me about the documentary, Colin Nusbaum, Andrea B. Scott men through barred windows; a shiny, new gated telling me how important it would be, telling me it was a story the world need- suburban community, just down the street from a very different kind of gated ed to hear. But it wasn’t until I finally saw the show for myself that I realized community. How exactly did these juxtapositions play out in everyday life? she was right, and I realized how much I wanted to tell this story. What did the presence of nine prisons do to a place and its people? I traveled out Selected Filmography: That Evening Sun to Florence a few months later with a camera and a couple friends to find out. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

PAGE 36 PAGE 37 DOCUMENTARIES Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation 94 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition rom two-time Academy Award winner and AIFF Lifetime Achievement FAward honoree Barbara Kopple comes a vivid, inside look at America’s oldest continuously published weekly magazine, The Nation, as it celebrates its 150th aniversary. Shot over three years in Kopple’s signature, intimate vérité style, the film centers on the writers who are the heart and soul of the magazine, a diverse crop of interns, and Editor-in-Chief Katrina vanden Heuvel, who keeps all of the plates spinning. At a fascinating moment in American history — politically, socially, and culturally — the media landscape is changing at breathtaking speed. The film charts the journey of the legendary progressive magazine as it evolves into the future guided by its remarkable past. Director’s Statement: Barbara Kopple TIMES Director: Barbara Kopple About three years ago, the editor and publisher called me Producers: Barbara Kopple, in and said, “We’re reaching 150 years of The Nation in Friday 6:00pm Suzanne Mitchell 2015. What do you think about making a film about it?” Executive Producer: Hamilton Fish Of course, I said, “I would love to!” I was able to follow Co-Producer: Madeleine Akers the staff, including reporters out into the field, but Associate Producers: Lindsay Bane, reporters aren’t used to having a film crew with them. Kelly Brennan, Megan Kapler My biggest challenge was getting them to just ignore us Cinematographers: Gary Griffin, and let us go along with them. When we would come in John Hazard, David Sosnow sometimes, they would roll their eyes, like, “Oh no, not them again!” But after a Editor: Richard Hankin while, they got used to us and were glad we were there. Music: Max Avery Lichtenstein Selected Filmography: Harlan County U.S.A (AIFF14), American Dream, Running from Crazy (AIFF14) Proud sponsor of Ashland Independent Film Festival (541) 621-4703 • www.jolenesweets.com How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with 64 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Ricky Leacock in Normandy ow do you teach someone to film?” documentary luminary Richard “HLeacock asks legendary filmmaker Les Blank. “How do you teach someone to smell a rose?” In 2000, Les Blank (AIFF Artistic Achievement Award honoree) and co-director Gina Leibrecht brought their camera on a visit to Leacock and Valerie Lalonde, Leacock’s wife and collaborator, at their home in rural France. From that footage comes a bittersweet valentine to two documentary trailblazers suffused with their passion for life, cinema, and — not least of all — food. Rustic meals and long walks blend with memorable moments from Leacock’s 70-year career that has inspired generations of filmmakers. With the passing of both Blank (in 2013) and Leacock (in 2011), the documentary leaves behind a vibrant, joyous record of two men who knew how to experience — and capture — life’s richness. TIMES Directors, Producers & Cinematographers: Director’s Statement: Gina Leibrecht Thursday 3:40pm Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht Friday 10:10am Executive Producers: Les Blank first met Richard Leacock in the late Harrod Blank, Kevin White 1960s. They became mutual admirers of one Saturday 3:40pm Screenwriter & Editor: another’s work and their friendship endured until Gina Leibrecht Leacock’s death in 2011. In the late 1990s, Leacock P L A Y S W I T H P L A Y S W I T H : Music: The Baguette QuartetteYou Have the Right had retired and was living on a farm in Norman- Cailleach to an Attorney dy. Blank brought his young collaborator — me — (p 51 ) (page 45) on a visit, and together, we collected Ricky’s stories about his long career as a filmmaker, innovator, and fabulous cook! The film was put on the back burner Sponsored by for over a decade, but shortly before Blank’s death in 2013, he asked me to finish Ashland Food the film without him. Co-op Selected Filmography: Les Blank — Burden of Dreams (AIFF07), Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (AIFF07); Gina Leibrecht and Les Blank — All in This Tea (AIFF07)

PAGE 38 PAGE 39 DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES The Hunting Ground Sneak Preview Screening | 2014 | 102 minutes | USA Iris 78 minutes | 2014 | USA rom the Academy Award-nominated filmmakers of The Invisible War wo extraordinary American icons come together in this new film from F(AIFF12) comes a startling exposé of sexual assault on US campuses. From TAIFF Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Albert Maysles. The 87-year- elite Ivy League universities, to state schools and small colleges, a shameful old filmmaker turns his legendary camera on Iris Apfel, the fashion and interior system of institutional cover-ups, rationalizations, victim-blaming and denial design maven, who herself is just shy of 94. A portrait of creativity and how, is revealed. Weaving together vérité footage and first-person accounts, the regardless of age, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. Iris is an extraordinary film follows a courageous group of women as they pursue justice and their woman who reminds us that fashion, just like life, is nothing but an experiment. education in the face of harsh retaliation and harassment. [mature] In this profile, Maysles, who pops up from time to time as a cheerful on-camera presence, follows Iris as she makes selections for a touring exhibition of her Director’s Statement: Kirby Dick designs, advises young women on their fashion choices, and bargains with We saw this as a subject around which a very powerful store owners, usually in the company of her husband of 66 years, Carl, who and dramatic film could be built, but also that could have recently turned 100. a great impact on society. We realize that a documentary Director & Screenwriter: Kirby Dick Director: Albert Maysles TIMES can open discussion up in a different way than any TIMES Director’s Statement: Albert Maysles Producer: Amy Ziering Producers: Laura Coxson, Rebekah other kind of medium. There was very little discussion From the moment I met Iris, I knew there was a film there. I Saturday 12:00pm Executive Producers: Paul Blavin, Maysles, Jennifer Ash Rudick about these issues when we started the film. We knew it Thursday 6:00pm just looked at her eyes through those wonderful glasses and Maria Cuomo Cole, Bob Compton, Executive Producer: Doreen Small Join us for an would be a very dramatic story to follow these two young she was so warm and communicative. It was easy to film so Amy Entelis, Mark & Barbara Gerson, Sponsored by Co-Producer: Paul Lovelace extended Q&A Ruth Ann Harnisch, Jason Janego, women (Annie and Dre) who were assaulted and were that the viewer could identify with her as someone you want after the film with Good Guide Cinematographers: Albert Maysles, Vinnie Malhotra, Sukey Novogratz, really devastated by it, and then they turned that experience into something to spend time with. My mother used to say there’s good in local educators, Nelson Walker III, Sean Price Williams Tom Quinn, Regina Scully positive, and found a novel way for students to take on their institution to everybody, and there was no difficulty whatsoever in finding experts, and Editor: Paul Lovelace Co-Producers: Nicole Ehrlich, promote change. good in Iris. If you have the ability to connect through activists, and learn Bonnie Greenberg Music: Steve Gunn, Justin Tripp how Southern Oregon empathy, how you see the world changes. Cinematographers: Aaron Kopp, Selected Filmography: Twist of Faith, This Film Is Not Yet Rated, The Invisible War (AIFF12) University is address- Selected Filmography: Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter (AIFF08), The Gates (AIFF08) ing the issue with Thaddeus Wadleigh their model program Editors: Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra, “Campus Choice.” Kim Roberts Music: Miriam Cutler

In Football We Trust 87 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket Sneak Preview Screening | 87 minutes | 1989 | USA his new take on the American immigrant story follows the journey of o honor James Baldwin’s 90th birthday and the 25th anniversary of this Tfour young Polynesian men as they strive to realize the American dream Taward-winning 16mm documentary, a dedicated crew repaired and of playing football in the NFL. Shot over four years, the film follows the close- restored the damaged original film. Blending intimate interviews, eloquent knit world of transplanted Pacific Islanders and their families in Salt Lake City, public speeches, and private glimpses of Baldwin, the film explores what it Utah. Facing daunting societal and family pressures, the four players struggle means to be black, impoverished, gifted, and gay in a world that has yet to against poverty and gang violence as they progress from adolescence to understand that “all men are brothers.” Baldwin’s passionate plea for equality manhood. Soon they are entrenched in the high stakes world of collegiate and and an end to prejudice and injustice is just as relevant today as it was when NFL recruitment. Charismatic, passionate, and determined, the young men the film first appeared. With Maya Angelou, William Styron, Ishmael Reed, hope to make it big in the game they love almost as much as they love their and Bobby Short. families and community. [language] Directors’ Statements: Tony Vainuku, Erika Cohn Director’s Statement: Karen Thorsen This film has turned me into a conduit for some- Erika Cohn: My mentor in Salt Lake City thought I would Director & Producer: Karen Thorsen thing far greater than anything I could do or say Directors: Tony Vainuku & Erika Cohn identify with Tony’s story “right in my own backyard.” TIMES TIMES Executive Producers: on my own. It did so back in the late ‘80s when I Producer: Erika Cohn I was moved by his passion, and his commitment to Friday 12:00pm Susan Lacy, Albert Maysles was first working with Baldwin; it’s doing so now, Executive Producers: Gavin Dougan, accurately representing his culture on the big screen. We Thursday 12:00pm Co-Producers: 25 years after our film was completed. Driven by Geralyn Dreyfous, Mark Lipson both felt very strongly about using sports as a catalyst to Saturday 6:00pm Douglas K. Dempsey, Bill Miles Baldwin’s 90th birthday, recent current events and Editors: Ericka Concha, William Haugse, address larger societal issues. And so we embarked on a Sunday 9:30am Screenwriters: Douglas K. Dempsey, an urgent need for social change, I’ve put other Ken Schneider five-year journey to make this film. Karen Thorsen film projects on hold and launched “Conversations with Jimmy.” A series of Music: Justin Melland Tony Vainuku: I am first-generation Tongan, born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I didn’t have much growing Cinematographer: Don Lenzer community-based collaborations, this nationwide initiative uses our new up. The kids in my neighborhood looked up to gang Editors: Sandra Gurthrie, “digital Baldwin” to spark town-wide discussions about diversity, discrimination, members and drug dealers. However, the Polynesians Steve Olswang and the meaning of brotherhood. The mission: to engage diverse communities, who played little league football with me found their role inspire dialogue despite differences, encourage citizen activists — and ensure models in Junior Seau and Vai Sikahema, pioneers for our that Baldwin’s message is heard and debated by those who need it most. culture in the NFL. Selected Filmography: Joe Papp in Five Acts (AIFF13) Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

PAGE 40 PAGE 41 DOCUMENTARIES ENJOY THE GREAT FILM SELECTIONS KASAMAYAKI (Made in Kasama) 78 minutes | 2014 | Japan, USA | In Competition THIS YEAR AT THE haken by the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters of 2011, a young Swoman returns from New York City to Kasama, Japan, to make sense of her family’s troubled past. In a rural community not far from the Fukushima nuclear reactors, she turns the camera on her aging parents — and herself. Her parents’ simple life centers around creating art and a quiet respect for the power and beauty of nature, though only a few miles away the ruined reminders of devastation are everywhere. Meditative moments at the pottery wheel are punctuated by tense conversations, sudden earthquakes, and radiation level readings. As the film captures the reunited family’s day-to-day existence, it OSCAR-NOMINATED exposes the bittersweet process of coming to terms with an imperfect life, and LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM the healing power of creativity. [subtitles] WAS A 2014 AIFF TIMES Director, Producer & Cinematographer: Yuki Kokubo Directors’ Statement: Yuki Kokubo DOCUMENTARY FILM Thursday 6:10pm Executive Producer: My parents and I had been living lives separated by SELECTION Friday 9:40am Annelliesse Popescu anger and resentment when the 2011 earthquake, Friday 3:10pm Editors: Keiko Deguchi, tsunami, and nuclear disasters struck Japan. These Yuki Kokubo AIRS TUESDAY, APRIL 28 ON Saturday 6:10pm catastrophic events made me realize how important Music: Jesse Peterson Sunday 9:10pm my family and roots are, and the film is a reflection Monday 9:10pm on my journey to rediscover “home.” By sharing my family’s story, I hope it will bring healing to those who hold onto painful family experiences. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck 132 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition

wenty years after his death, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer, guitarist and Tsongwriter of Nirvana remains a rock music icon. This fully authorized, mixed-media portrait blends Cobain’s personal archive of artwork, journals, music, and previously unseen home movies with animation and interviews with his family and friends to reveal the detailed inner workings of an artist at odds with his surroundings. Eight years in the making, this raw and visceral journey through Kurt Cobain’s life explores his punk rock convictions in a montage of hope laced with despair. More than just a must-see for Nirvana fans, it’s a penetrating look at an artist’s mind, from its first creative awakening to its untimely demise. [mature] Director’s Statement: Brett Morgan TIMES Director: Brett Morgen Producers: Danielle Renfrew Behrens, In 2007, Courtney Love approached me because she’d Friday 9:00pm Brett Morgen seen The Kid Stays in the Picture, and she said, “We Executive Producers: have all this art of Kurt’s and no one’s really ever seen Frances Bean Cobain, Sara Bernstein, it, and there’s so much more to him than people knew.” David Byrnes, Larry Mestel, Kurt’s art and his audio really lent itself to the way I Dave Morrison, Sheila Nevins approach nonfiction. You start when he’s three, and Co-Producer: James Smith you see the idealism and the hope in those illustra- Screenwriter: Brett Morgen tions, and you can see by seven that the darkness Cinematographers: Eric Edwards, starts to come in. I think he had an ideal childhood until he was about three, Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, James Whitaker and spent the rest of his life trying to get back to that feeling. Editors: Joe Beshenkovsky, Brett Morgen Selected Filmography: Chicago 10, The Kid Stays in the Picture Animators: Stefan Nadelman, Hisko Hulsing Studio

PAGE 42 PAGE 43 DOCUMENTARIES Listen to Me Marlon 102 minutes | 2015 | United Kingdom arlon Brando was one of the most brilliant, influential, complex, and Mcharismatic screen legends of all time. With exclusive access to a previously unseen and unheard personal archive, this unique biography Thank you for making allows Brando to tell his own story. As it looks back on his legendary career, film clips are interwoven with public appearances and behind-the-scenes 40 years of dreams possible. footage, family photos and home movies, to construct a revealing, multi- faceted portrait of the private man whom few understood. This masterfully edited film exposes the inner workings of Brando’s mind to render an illuminating image of the actor in his own voice. Made with full cooperation of the Brando estate, the film is a celebration and homage to a creative — and mysterious — genius. Director’s Statement: Stevan Riley I had the gift of exclusive access to a wealth of previously unseen and unheard personal archive. TIMES Director, Editor & Screenwriter: What struck me most was the privilege of hearing Stevan Riley Marlon’s own voice — his unguarded thoughts, Thursday 9:00pm Producers: John Battsek, ramblings, asides, anecdotes. This was something Friday 6:00pm George Chignell, R.J. Cutler immediately engaging and intimate. As if Marlon Saturday 3:00pm Executive Producer: was at my shoulder. Could the story of Marlon’s Andrew Ruhemann Sunday 3:00pm life be told entirely in his own voice? I wanted Co-Producer: Nicole Stott to craft a cinematic landscape of his own thoughts and internal dialogue, Cinematographer: tightly coupled to the film’s visual presentation. Marlon’s personal audio Ole Bratt Birkeland archive existed in countless different forms, and breaking everything down into a digestible form was a monumental task. Once done, it allowed me to construct separate tracks of his story which run concurrently in the film. Selected Filmography: Everything Or Nothing, Fire In Babylon

Madina’s Dream 80 minutes | 2015 | Sudan, USA | In Competition n unflinching and poetic glimpse of the rebels and refugees fighting A to survive in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. Through unprecedented and intimate access, we are transported to this war­torn, hard-­to-­reach, and ruggedly beautiful region where hundreds of thousands of Nuban people face bombs and starvation while struggling to survive. Tens of thousands of civilians are forced to flee to refugee camps in South Sudan, including 11-year-old Madina. She dreams of a brighter future for herself and her people — a reflection of the remarkable resilience of a people caught in a forgotten, endless war. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Andrew Berends Thanks, Southern Oregon! For four decades, your generous support of The Oregon Community Foundation has benefited thousands of people in your own communities. Thank you also to the 202 In my experience in conflict zones, it is the suffering of innocent children that affects me most volunteers whose hard work and dedication made it happen. We look forward to the next 40 years of TIMES Director, Producer, Executive Producer, deeply. The most insidious weapon being used helping you create charitable funds that directly support your region. For more information, call us Thursday 9:20pm Screenwriter & Cinematographer: in the ongoing conflict in Sudan’s border regions at 541.773.8987 or visit www.oregoncf.org. Friday 9:50am Andrew Berends is starvation, and children are the most vulnerable. Co-Producer: Mariah Wilson Since the outbreak of hostilities, the Sudanese Saturday 3:20pm Associate Producer: government has blocked all humanitarian aid from reaching the Nuba Sunday 6:20pm Alessandra Bellizia Mountains, Darfur, and Blue Nile. With Madina’s Dream, I hope to raise Editor: Ashley Jenkins awareness of this conflict while celebrating the beauty and culture of the Nuban people. Over the past nine months, the plight of the Nuban refugees has been made even more precarious by the outbreak of civil war in South Sudan. Inside Sudan, the state-controlled media carries on a campaign of misinformation while the situation grows more dire every day. Selected Filmography: The Blood of My Brother, Delta Boys

PAGE 44 PAGE 45 DOCUMENTARIES Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story 84 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition

rank Morgan was one of the great alto sax players of all time, but for much Fof his life, if you wanted to hear him play, you had to go to prison. This soulful portrait uses evocative archival material, including interviews with the late musician, and new commentary from friends and admirers to tell the story of Morgan’s life as a talented prodigy turned drug addict and criminal. We know the real estate market… Doing time at San Quentin, he formed a band with other prisoners and played some of the best music of his life during concerts for inmates and visiting We know the community… audiences. A tale of jazz and redemption framed by an all-star tribute concert We are your at San Quentin, featuring Ron Carter, Delfeayo Marsalis, and Frank’s brilliant young protégé, Grace Kelly. Hometown Real Estate Professionals Director’s Statement: NC Heiken With my background in musical theatre, TIMES Director & Screenwriter: NC Heikin I have great respect for the power of music as a Producer: James Egan conduit of emotion. In Sound Of Redemption, Saturday 9:00pm Executive Producer: Frank Morgan’s music eloquently expresses Michael Connelly the self-inflicted pain and ceaseless search for Co-Producer: Su Kim beauty that are the themes of his life. The San Cinematographer: Kyle Saylors Quentin tribute concert wholly reflects him. We went to the very place he Editor: Kate Amend, Katie Flint spent so many years, played in the very place he used to play, and brought his Located next door to AIFF Music: Matt Savage musical story to the very same sort of men he used to play for. What started as a type of recreation became a resurrection. www.Ashland-Homes.com Selected Filmography: Kimjongilia

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LOVING MOVIES & THOSE Tocando la Luz (Touch the Light) 72 minutes | 2015 | Cuba, USA | In Competition WHO MAKE THEM n the heart of Havana, Cuba, three unforgettable and courageous blind Iwomen — Lis, Milly, and Margarita — find independence even as they face heartbreak, family problems, and the knowledge that their dependence on others is a double-edged sword. From the music halls of the city to a cinema club for the blind, their moving stories reveal both the pain and the joy of fighting to make it on one’s own in the world. An inspiring reflection on love, memory, loss, and the fiery Cuban spirit. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Jennifer Redfearn My partner, Tim Metzger, and I were drawn to Cuba because of its rich culture, complex political history and TIMES Director: Jennifer Redfearn because the island is undergoing change right now. We Producers: Tim Metzger, were looking for a story that offered a new way of under- Sunday 9:30am Jennifer Redfearn standing Cuba. As we got to know these unforgettable Executive Producer: women, we realized there was a meaningful film to be Abigail E. Disney told in their rich, layered, and complex personal stories. Cinematographer: Tim Metzger I lost two very important people while making this film and my family Editor: David Teague wrestled with similar issues found in the women’s lives. I feel incredibly Music: T. Griffin fortunate to have crossed a cultural bridge to exchange stories of love and loss, and that the Cuban families trusted us and had the courage to share such personal moments with us on camera. Selected Filmography: Sun Come Up

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PAGE 46 PAGE 47 DOCUMENTARIES DOCUMENTARIES T-Rex 86 | 2015 | USA | In Competition Western 93 minutes | 2015 | Mexico, USA | In Competition

n intimate coming-of-age story about a new kind of American heroine. or generations, all that divided Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, A In 2012, Women’s Boxing was included in the Olympics for the first time. FMexico, was the Rio Grande. But now the specter of cartel violence looms Fighting for the gold, 17-year-old Claressa “T-Rex” Shields from the streets from upriver and an indefinite border closing has rippling consequences for of Flint, Michigan, is undefeated and utterly confident. Outside the ring, she the once idyllic sister towns. This film focuses on a fifth-generation cattleman protects her family, even when their instability and addictions threaten to and the longtime mayor of Eagle Pass as they grapple with imminent threats to derail her. The one solid and reliable force in her life is her coach, Jason community safety and traditional livelihoods. Beyond these struggles, a rich Crutchfield. As her chance at greatness in London grows closer, her relation- and vivid portrait of this corner of America emerges: an aspiring rodeo hero, ships with her coach and her family become more complicated. But Claressa a spirited bullfight, the vigilance of a retired Border Patrolman at the river — is determined. She desperately wants to take her family to a better, safer place and the kind of frequent and vigorous celebration that’s an indelible part of life — and winning gold could be her only chance. [language] on the frontier as the world around it changes. [language] Directors’ Statement: Bill and Turner Ross Directors’ Statement: Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper TIMES Directors & Cinematographers: Bill and Turner Ross TIMES Directors, Executive Producers From the moment we met her, we knew Claressa was special. We wanted to make a real-life Western. To seek out those & Cinematographers: We dropped everything to follow her, whether she made it Thursday 6:20pm Producer: Michael Gottwald iconic spaces, places, faces that we’d grown up with — that Thursday 3:20pm Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper to the Olympics or not. And now we have crafted a film that Friday 6:20pm Executive Producers: Dan Janvey, everyone’s grown up with. Who’s the real John Wayne? And Friday 12:20pm Producers: Zackary Canepari, tells this truly historic and dramatic story. Claressa and her Saturday 12:20pm Bill King, Josh Penn, Libby Thompson what does he look like in his modern iteration? Those Techni- Sunday 9:50am Drea Cooper, Bianca Darville, coach, Jason, invited us into their homes and over the last Sunday 3:20pm Co-Producer: Noah Stahl color landscapes — what are they now that the fences and the Sue Jaye Johnson, Gary Kout Editor: Bill Ross Monday 9:20pm three years shared their most intimate encounters and deepest interstates have been built? Now that the great and mythic Co-Producer: Rebecca Saladoff thoughts. As filmmakers we’re truly honored to be able to Music: Casey McAllister landscapes of our collective imagination and real-world Editors: Drea Cooper, Jean Kawahara bring Claressa’s amazing story and spirit to the screen and history have become one-dimensional talking points of Music: Matthew Joynt, share it with the world. border politics. We went to seek and find. And what we found Nathan Sandberg was a truth far greater and more interesting and romantic Selected Filmography: Aquadettes (AIFF12) than the paint-by-number preconceptions we set out with. Selected Filmography: 45365 (AIFF10), Tchoupitoulas (AIFF13)

When Giants Fall Sneak Preview | 75 minutes | 2015 | Africa, USA | In Competition Welcome to Leith 86 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition itness the magnificence of the African elephant and experience the gentle n September, 2012, the tiny town of Leith, North Dakota, gained a new Wsouls that lie within their awesome grey bulk. A century ago, they roamed Iresident when notorious white supremacist Craig Cobb made it his home. all of Africa, but now they are left with only fragments of land and nowhere to Quietly buying up plots of land, he planned to take over the town government run as they face extinction. These charismatic giants are under constant threat and establish Cobbsville as a haven for like-minded neo-Nazis and white by fierce and unrelenting predators from the worldwide illegal ivory trade. A supremacists. His attempts to remake the community did not endear him to penetrating look at the endangered elephants, the criminals who hunt them, the people of Leith. How can a small town expel an unwanted troublemaker and the dedicated heroes trying to save them. [mature, subtitles] and threat to the greater good and still uphold essential democratic values and ideals? [language] Director’s Statement: Leslie Griffith When Giants Fall showcases a monumental Directors’ Statement: tragedy. We ask who is responsible, what can be done to stop elephant extinction, and how Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker TIMES Director, Producer, Executive We approached the project in many ways as a documentary Producer & Screenwriter: our own species can recover its humanity. Directors: Michael Beach Nichols, TIMES version of a psychological thriller — everyone was scared Friday 9:30am Leslie Griffith Our search reveals that more than 1,000 new Christopher K. Walker and confused and felt as if one wrong move could end in Cinematographer: Greg Nelson diamond, copper, uranium, and gold mines are Producers: Joey Carey, Jenner Furst, Friday 9:40pm violence. The tension was palpable. We aimed to capture the Editor: Gary Lundgren adding to the demise of the elephants. Massive Saturday 12:40pm Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher Music: John Askew shipments of weapons are pouring into Africa. Most are smuggled in by the K. Walker, Joshua Woltermann sense of fear and isolation that residents living in a town of Sunday 3:40pm 24 people, 70 miles from anything, experienced when Cobb Animator: Kevin Ang Russian and Chinese mafias. There are more than 50 ongoing wars, many Executive Producers: Nason & Stefan involving soldiers who buy their guns directly with money from elephant Nowicki, Julia Willoughby made his takeover intentions public. And we tried to get inside Cobb’s head — to objectively capture a very strange ivory. We have had boots on the ground in seven countries over the past year, Co-Producer: David Nichols documenting the myriad players and intrigue. Cinematographer: and scary moment in time. Michael Beach Nichols Selected Filmography: Michael Beach Nichols — Flex is Kings; Selected Filmography: DIrectorial Debut Editors: Michael Beach Nichols, Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker — Delivery Christopher K. Walker, Joshua Woltermann Music: T. Griffin

PAGE 48 PAGE 49 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT PROGRAMS Films play in order listed Academy Award®-nominated short films Oscar® Oscar® Shorts 1 [M] Shorts 2 [M] Saturday 9:30am Saturday 3:00pm 81 minutes | 96 minutes | Docs Shorts & Docs The Reaper [S] A Single Life Our Curse [S] Joanna [S] Crisis Hotline: AYA [S] Veterans Press 1* *Academy Award Winner

Short Docs Thursday 12:20pm, Saturday 9:50am, Sunday 9:20pm, Monday 6:20pm | 74 minutes Graminoids Boxeadora [S] Reel Smith White Earth* Hotel 22 Crooked Candy One Year Lease * Academy Award Nominee

A late night mix of edgy and boundary-expanding short films After Hours: Shorts & Docs [M] Friday 9:30pm, Saturday 9:30pm, Sunday 9:30pm, Monday 9:30pm | 87 minutes Pop-Up Porno: m4m unmappable Russian Roulette Pop-Up Porno: f4m Pink Grapefruit Best Sound My Own Personal Moose [S] The Bad Boy of Bowling

AIFF Award Winning Shorts & Short Docs Monday 3:20pm See the 2015 Juried and Audience Award–winning short films.

PAGE 50 PAGE 51 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT DOCUMENTARIES The Bad Boy of Bowling World Premiere |19 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition Boxeadora 16 minutes | 2014 | Cuba, USA | In Competition ete Weber is the self-declared “bad boy of bowling” and the first rock star omen’s boxing in Cuba has been banned since the revolution. A Pof the sport. As one writer put it, “He’s the greatest show in bowling. Or, W38-year-old woman defies Castro and trains in secret for five years depending on how you judge him, he’s a giant black eye on a sport constantly in hopes that the ban will be lifted. But with only two years of eligibility searching for respect.” This funny and touching short documentary tells the left, will Namibia fulfill her dream of Olympic glory and become Cuba’s story of the past, present, and future of bowling through the eyes of its most first official female contender? [subtitiles] colorful and controversial character. Director’s Statement: Meg Smaker Director’s Statement: Bryan Storkel I am a documentary filmmaker, and also a competitive I love docs with quirky characters...and you can’t find a Director: Bryan Storkel boxer. In late 2013, I traveled to Cuba to train for an TIMES better character than the “bad boy of bowling.” My goal in TIMES Director, Producer, Executive Producers: Daniel Junge, Amy Storkel Producer, Screenwriter, upcoming fight. Shortly after arriving, I discovered this film was to take a rather eccentric character (and a crazy Friday 9:30pm Cinematographer: Nate Larson Thursday 12:20pm Cinematographer & Editor: women were banned from the sport. This was a surprise, Saturday 9:30pm Editors: Bryan Storkel, Michelle Witten moment that much of society viewed as a joke) and bring a Saturday 9:50am Meg Smaker as Cuba has a rich sports culture and is a communist Sunday 9:30pm Music: John Jennings Boyd new perspective to it. I want the audience to go into the film Sunday 9:20pm With: Namibia Florez country that preaches equality. Eventually I found a fight Monday 9:30pm Sound: Lawrence Everson thinking one thing, and leave with a whole new outlook. Monday 6:20pm gym that would train me. Here I met Namibia, the only Selected Filmography: Holy Rollers (AIFF12), Fight Church female boxer in Cuba. P L A Y S I N P L A Y S I N Selected Filmography: Methel Island, Pistols to Porn After Hours: Short Short Docs (p 49) & Docs (p 49)

14 minutes | 2014 | Scotland Best Sound 6 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Cailleach orag lives alone in the house where she was born 86 years ago. It sits at rent and Chris go on a sonic journey on a Friday night in the middle of a the end of a road on the Outer Hebrides in Scotland and looks out on kitchen. [mature] M T the breathtaking sea. Life is simple and peaceful for her and her three cats and Director’s Statement: Josh Polon twelve sheep. A lovely glimpse into Morag’s unique sense of independence, My washing machine inspired me to showcase two of her attitude toward mortality, and the connection she has to her wild my best friends: one whose art I love, the other whose island home. soul I love. Director’s Statement: Rosie Reed Hillman Selected Filmography: Bob Spells Backwards, March Meeting Morag was a privilege and making Cailleach Director, Screenwriter & Editor: Director & Cinematographer: TIMES TIMES Rosie Reed Hillman a labor of love. Her character and story have much to Josh Polon Thursday 3:40pm Friday 9:30pm Producer: Chris AHEE Adams, Producer: Carol Cooke teach those of us entrenched and preoccupied with busy Saturday 9:30pm Friday 10:10am Editor: Scott Dulson city lives. I shot and edited the film in midwinter and Bobby Howard, Ryan Maxey Saturday 3:40pm Sunday 9:30pm Cinematographer: Ryan Maxey, Music: Acre Tarn late pregnancy, which certainly had its own challenges, Monday 9:30pm Josh Polon P L A Y S W I T H but it was lovely to undertake such an adventure and Music: Chris AHEE Adams How to Smell a Rose: share both the filmmaking process and the anticipation P L A Y S I N With: Chris AHEE Adams, of my baby with Morag. Trent Christensen A Visit with Ricky After Hours: Short Leacock in Normandy Selected Filmography: The Bounds of Habitation & Docs (p 49) (p 37)

PAGE 52 PAGE 53 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 Academy Award® Winner | 40 minutes | 2013 | Graminoids 6 minutes | 2014 | Scotland

ince 2001, more veterans have committed suicide than have died in combat ilmed in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park, this is an enchanting, immersive Sin Iraq and Afghanistan — casualties of the psychological wounds of war Fballet of the tall native grasses known as graminoids. Waving in the and the challenges of returning to civilian life. This powerful film is a riveting wind, set to a symphony of synthesized and natural sounds, Graminoids portrait of the people who staff the Veterans Crisis Line in Canandaigua, New captures the mesmerizing interplay of textures and light. York. Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, trained hotline volunteers field more than 22,000 calls each month, always with deep compassion for and Directors’ Statement: Lars Koens, Demelza Kooij devotion to the troubled veterans on the other end of the line. When we saw the interplay between wind and grass on Arthur’s Seat, for us, the only way to communicate its Director’s Statement: Ellen Goosenberg Kent sublime beauty was to make this film. We worked intensively on a synthesis between the sound of wind and the infinitely We wanted to bring attention to the suicide crisis among TIMES Director & Producer: Director: Ellen Goosenberg Kent veterans, to help people understand it better, to offer Lars Koens, Demelza Kooij diverse images of grass, continuously feeding one with the TIMES Thursday 12:20pm Producer: Dana Perry some ideas about prevention, and also to offer a ray Cinematographer & Editor: other until we reached the right harmony. Saturday 3:00pm Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins Saturday 9:50am Demelza Kooij of hope for veterans and their families. Many months Sunday 9:20pm Selected Filmography: Demelza Kooijj — Salt & Coal, The View From Here; Editor: Geof Bartz, A.C.E. P L A Y S I N Music: Lars Koens, Demelza Kooij Lars Loens — Directorial Debut P L A Y S I N of research turned up the hotline, which seemed both Monday 6:20pm immediately promising and ultimately impossible as a place to film. Fortunately, Going for Gold: Oscar Shorts 2 we were able to get access and come up with a way to make it work. OlympicP L A ShortsY S I N with (p 49) Lucy Walker (p 47) Selected Filmography: No Dog Left Behind, One Nation Under Dog Short Docs (p 49)

Crooked Candy 6 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Hotel 22 8 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition inder Surprise eggs are enormously popular all around the world. From his poetic and poignant glimpse into life aboard a public bus in Silicon Kthe foil wrapper to the chocolate shell, the plastic yolk capsule to the TValley takes place over one dramatic night. Line 22 is the only 24-hour clever toy inside, they are practically a global rite of childhood. That is, bus route in Palo Alto. During the day, it is a regular city bus. But at night, it except in the United States, where they’re considered a choking hazard and transforms into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. are illegal. This is the inside story of a clever Kinder smuggler! Director’s Statement: Elizabeth Lo Director’s Statement: Andrew Rodgers I filmed Hotel 22 in Palo Alto while pursuing a Master I had dinner at the home of our film’s subject. For dessert, of Fine Arts at Stanford University’s documentary film he pulled a couple of Kinder Surprise eggs out of a drawer. program. As the Line 22 bus hurtles through one of the Director, Producer & Screenwriter: I’d never opened one before, because they are illegal in the richest parts of the world, it carries all the lives that have TIMES Andrew Rodgers US. He told the story of his fascination with them, and Director, Producer, Executive been displaced and disregarded by Silicon Valley. Its Thursday 12:20pm Cinematographer: Harvey Robinson TIMES how he’d even been caught trying to smuggle them across Producer, Screenwriter, story is a mirror to the discord — and disparity — of the Saturday 9:50am Editor: Harvey Robinson the Canadian border. Before falling asleep that night, I Thursday 12:20pm Cinematographer, Editor: Sunday 9:20pm Elizabeth Lo world we live in. told my wife that someone ought to make a film about Saturday 9:50am Monday 6:20pm Sunday 9:20pm Music: Jonathan Zalben Selected Filmography: Treasure Island, Last Stop in Santa Rosa this. By the next morning, I was convinced I was the person to do it. Monday 6:20pm P L A Y S I N Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut P L A Y S I N Short Docs (p 49) Short Docs (p 49)

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PAGE 54 PAGE 55 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Joanna Academy Award Nominee | 40 minutes | 2013 | Poland Our Curse Academy Award Nominee | 27 minutes | 2013 | Poland n this visually poetic and ultimately uplifting portrait, a woman with only a n this unwavering and inspirational personal statement from the film’s Ifew months to live teaches her 5-year-old son about love and life in touching I director and his wife, we witness the couple cope with their newborn and inspiring preparation for the day when she will no longer be there, son’s rare and incurable disease. A congenital pulmonary disorder known tenderly illuminating the simple and meaningful moments in the life of a as “Ondine’s curse” causes their baby to stop breathing when he’s asleep. family. [subtitles] He will likely need a respirator his entire life. The young parents confront their fears about the enormous responsibility before them and face their Director’s Statement: Aneta Kopacz child’s — and their own — future with compassion and love. [subtitles] I started following Joanna’s blog in which she described every single day of her life since she’d been told she Director’s Statement: Tomasz Śliwiński TIMES Director: Aneta Kopacz had three months to live. Her writing was great: well Shooting this film helped my family a great deal. Producer & Executive Producer: thought out, concise, meaningful. I read everything at Director & Screenwriter: Instead of succumbing to depression, we directed Saturday 9:30am Wajda Studio TIMES once, fascinated. I remember our first extraordinary Tomasz Śliwiński our energy into something creative. The story of our Co-Producer: Saturday 3:00pm Producer: Maciej Ślesicki P L A Y S I N National Audiovisual Institute face-to-face meeting. In silence one moment, then family is one of overcoming the worst, and ultimately, Cinematographer: Magda Hueckel, Screenwriters: Aneta Kopacz, suddenly we had known each other for ages. Two days later I was filming. This of being truly grateful for what we have. In December, Oscar Shorts 1 (p 49) P L A Y S W I T H Tomasz Śliwiński Tomasz Sredniawa is a story of Joanna, Jas, and Piotr. Of love, relationships, tenderness, life, and Leo turned four years old. He is a cheerful young boy Oscar Shorts 2 Editor: Justyna Król, Tomasz Śliwiński Cinematographer: Lukasz Zal departures. (p 49) with a wonderful sense of humor, and is doing very well in school. Editors: Aneta Kopacz, Pawel Laskowski, Selected Filmography: A Stroll Rafal Samborski Selected Filmography: The Curse Music: Jan A.P. Kaczmarek Pop-Up Porno: f4m 4 minutes | 2014 | Canada One Year Lease 11 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition nimated pop-up illustrations bring to life the bittersweet tale of a breast old almost entirely through voicemail messages, One Year Lease docu- cancer survivor who tries to reclaim her sexuality. [mature] Tments the hilarious travails of Brian, Thomas, and Casper as they endure A a year-long nightmare with Rita, the meddlesome cat-loving landlady. Director’s Statement: Stephen Dunn Director’s Statement: Brian Bolster My intention was to bare all and tell embarrassing, hopeful — or sometimes ultimately hopeless — stories As a documentary filmmaker, I can confidently state that I’ve encountered in my own experiences of online that this project was never one I could have imagined dating. tackling, let alone living through! Voicemail messages Director: Stephen Dunn accumulated — saved either to replay for family and TIMES Selected Filmography: We Wanted More, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Producer: Holly O’Brien Director, Producer, Screenwriter & TIMES friends at a dinner party or out of sheer laziness — but Friday 9:30pm Executive Producers: Stephen Dunn, Cinematographer: Brian Bolster it wasn’t until the end of a year approached that Thomas and I stepped back Saturday 9:30pm Holly O’Brien Thursday 12:20pm Executive Producer: Thomas Harrington and took inventory of the incredible stock of unsolicited “content” we had Sunday 9:30pm Cinematographer: Catherine Lutes Saturday 9:50am Editor: Anthony Sherin been provided. Only then did I begin to conceptualize the story, and ultimately Monday 9:30pm Editor: Bryan Atkinson Sunday 9:20pm realized that there was no better narrator of it than the straight-out-of- Book Creator: Karen Justl Monday 6:20pm P L A Y S I N central-casting star herself, Rita. After Hours: Shorts P L A Y S I N Selected Filmography: The Mercantile, White Blaze, The Tricks List & Docs (p 49) Short Docs (p 49)

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SHORT DOCUMENTARIES SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Pop-Up Porno: m4m 4 minutes | 2014 | Canada unmappable 23 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition

he story of a lonely traveler on a business trip to New York City his meditative portrait unveils the inner workings of iconoclastic Twho finds himself on an online dating site trading photos with an Tpsychogeographer and convicted sex offender Denis Wood, a man who uncomfortably familiar stranger. [mature] unapologetically pushes boundaries both personally and professionally, revealing thoughts and beliefs we usually think of as being unexplainable Director’s Statement: Stephen Dunn and “unmappable.” [mature] I’ve been kind of perplexed lately by Grindr and this whole online dating world. That’s where I get a lot of mo- Directors’ Statement: Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma tivation for my work, as a way to overcome my own fears By society’s standards, sex offenders are expected to live life Director: Stephen Dunn TIMES or insecurities. I was originally going to include one of my on the fringes. Our subject, however, does not. This film was Producer: Holly O’Brien own stories, but I just found these were so much better. intended to take a look at what makes him such an exception. Fr 9:30pm, Sa 9:30pm Executive Producers: TIMES Directors, Producers, Screenwriters, Su 9:30pm Stephen Dunn, Holly O’Brien Selected Filmography: We Wanted More, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Cinematographers & Editors: It is our hope that the film will confront viewers’ assumptions Mo 9:30pm Cinematographer: Catherine Lutes Fr 9:30pm, Sa 9:30pm Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma about “fixed” human behavior, as well as provoke discussion Su 9:30pm Music: Jeff Markee on a topic many do their best to avoid. P L A Y S I N Editor: Bryan Atkinson Book Creator: Tisha D. Myles Mo 9:30pm Animator: Bryan Campbell Selected Filmography: DIrectorial Debut After Hours: Shorts & Docs (p 49) P L A Y S I N After Hours: Shorts & Docs (p 49) The Reaper Academy Award Nominee | 29 minutes | 2013 | Mexico frain, known as The Reaper, has worked at a slaughterhouse for 25 years. White Earth Academy Award Nominee | 20 minutes | 2014 | USA E He is the man who kills the bulls, day in and day out. More than just a graphic look at the inner workings of a Mexican slaughterhouse, this is n the last few years, thousands of people have flocked to North Dakota seeking a stunning meditation on death and the struggle to live, as seen through Iwork in the burgeoning oil fields, hoping to strike it rich. Gorgeous shots of the eyes of this taciturn man whose experiences would be unimaginable to the frozen plains underscore the moving and informative first-person accounts most. [mature, subtitles] of three children and one immigrant mother as they face the realities of life in an over-crowded boom town. Themes of innocence, home, and the American Director’s Statement: Gabriel Serra Dream are seen through unexpected eyes. I met a young man who used to work as a butcher. A picture TIMES Director & Screenwriter: Gabriel Serra came to mind, a million head of cattle and millions of humans Director’s Statement: J. Christian Jensen Saturday 3:00pm Producers: Karla Bukantz, eating them — a metaphor for Mexico City. I saw myself When I arrived in North Dakota, I found all the signs of Henner Hofmann reflected in Efrain, “The Reaper,” because he is a mediator a genuine boom region: people sleeping in cars, trucks, P L A Y S I N Executive Producer: Argentina Moreno between life and death. I wanted to make a documentary TIMES Director, Producer, Screenwriter, and ramshackle RVs despite -50 temperatures; scarcity of Cinematographer: Carlos Correa Oscar Shorts 2 about this process of death as an occupation and how it is Cinematographer & Editor: basic foods and services; and a lack of infrastructure of Th 12:20pm J. Christian Jensen (p 49) Editor: Koki Ortega every kind. I quickly determined that I wanted to train my linked consciously and unconsciously to our lives. Sa 9:50am, Su 9:20pm Music: Chris Carlson,Wiley Webb Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Mo 6:20pm camera on stories that were usually overlooked. I wanted to hear the voices of those who are often an afterthought in P L A Y S I N the quest for economic gain. 7 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition Reel Smith Short Docs (p 49) Selected Filmography: Between Land and Sea, Out of Body enny DeBey is a traditional blacksmith: he crafts objects of function and Dgreat beauty from hard metal. Since 2005, he has designed and created the awards presented at the Ashland Independent Film Festival. The filmmakers who receive his creations treasure them! Step into the Ashland Forge and watch the process unfold with this master craftsman. Directors’ Statement: Laney D’Aquino, Denny DeBey, dana knoke The equipment for this film included Denny’s TIMES Directors: Laney D’Aquino, Energy for life. Denny DeBey, dana knoke anvil — made in the 1800s — hammers and jigs Th 12:20pm, Fr 9:40pm Producer: dana knoke, Kathy Knoke that Denny made himself at the forge, plus Sa 9:50am, Su 9:20pm Screenwriter: dana knoke Laney’s camera and editing system on her Mo 3:00pm & 6:20pm computer. The three of us found a great ease and delight in creating together. P L A Y S I N We forged a great friendship in making a film about a blacksmith. We hope you enjoy our little film. We certainly had fun making it. 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PAGE 58 PAGE 59 FEATURES Ashland’s Law Firm Christmas, Again FEATURES80 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition oel returns to New York City hoping to put the past year behind him. NHeartbroken, he spends the holidays working the night shift at a side- Supports Independent Film walk Christmas tree lot and living in a trailer, not getting much sleep. He is bad-tempered and self-destructive until one strange night, when he comes to the aid of a mysterious woman. She and a free-flowing group of colorful customers rescue him from despair. Thoughtful and delicate, the film follows Noel on his lonesome search for hope and companionship while observing the holiday season from a new and unconventional perspective. Director’s Statement: Charles Poekel TIMES Director, Producer & Screenwriter: It was 2009 when I first thought of making a film about Charles Poekel a Christmas tree stand. I was living in Brooklyn and Thursday 3:10pm Executive Producer: William Poekel witnessed for the first time the ways in which New Yorkers Friday 9:10pm Co-Producer: Clare Paterson embraced these temporary residences. I interviewed a Experience Matters Saturday 12:10pm Cinematographer: few vendors and even volunteered at selling trees, but I Jack Davis, Chris Hearn, Saturday 9:10pm Sean Price Williams felt like I was only scratching the surface, so I decided to Sunday 9:40am Editor: Robert Greene open my own stand. This way I could learn the ins and Eugene Anderson, Jeff McCollum Principal Cast: Monday 3:10pm outs to write the screenplay, control my main location, and even use the profits & Gary Turner Kentucker Audley, Hannah Gross, to fund the film. I ran the stand for three years part-time. The fourth year, we Oona Roche, Andrea Suarez Paz, P L A Y S W I T H made the film. Our actors took turns selling trees, takes were interrupted for Jason Shelton customers, and even a few customers made their way into the film. The whole 515 E. Main Street, Ashland, Oregon Marathon (p 75) process was very organic. www.davishearn.com • (541) 482-3111 Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Echo Park 89 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition

ophie (Mamie Gummer) leaves her seemingly perfect yet predictable life S in Beverly Hills, and tries to get some perspective by moving to Echo Park, a gentrified neighborhood of artists and young professionals mixed with working-class Latino families and elderly pensioners. She meets Alex (Tony Okungbowa), a British expat musician who is giving up his bohemian existence to move back to London for a high-paying corporate job. The two are inexplicably drawn to each other as they explore and discover the charms of Echo Park and its residents. As Alex’s departure draws near, their connec- tion to each other and their eclectic neighborhood forces them to reassess where they belong.

TIMES Director: Amanda Marsalis Director’s Statement: Amanda Marsalis Producers: Eric Hayes, An email arrived out of the blue asking if I would like to Tony Okungbowa Friday 12:40pm direct a movie. The script was about my neighborhood: Saturday 10:10am Executive Producers: Jacquline Corbelli, Mark Modzelewski, Echo Park. Where I live. I could not believe it. It was so Sunday 12:40pm serendipitous. I wanted to look into a moment in some- Debi Shaw, Jay Shaw one’s life. Transition. Intimacy. Hope. I was lucky to find Co-Producer: Erik Rodgers Jason McCormick, my cinematographer, and then Mamie Screenwriters: proud supporters of the Gummer, who became my muse. It was extraordinary, all Catalina Aguilar Mastretta the help and support that followed. I am used to the much more solitary act Cinematographer: Jason McCormick of taking a photo. I was surprised at what a pleasure it was to collaborate. Editors: Nina Lucia, Greg O’Bryant I learned so much. I put myself into the film. My furniture, my photos, my Music: Christopher H. Knight friends, my neighborhood. I used everything I had. Principal Cast: Maurice Compte, Mamie Gummer, Gale Harold, Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Tony Okungbowa, Ricky Rico

PAGE 60 PAGE 61 FEATURES Imperial Dreams FEATURES87 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Rolling up our sleeves resh off a 28-month stint in prison for gang activity, 21-year-old Bambi Freturns home to Los Angeles and his old stomping grounds in Watts. Now educated and eager to pursue his dream of becoming a published writer, he must first come to terms with his role as the sole caretaker of his 3-year-old and getting down to business... son. To have any hope of reaching his goal and giving his son the upbringing Rolling up our sleeves he deserves, he needs to get a job and get off parole. Bambi’s dreams of a legit- Rolling up our sleeves imate life are challenged by both the red tape of government bureaucracy and the pressure to return to his old gangster life. Even so, he finds hope where it is and getting down to business... scarce, and learns what it really means to be a father. [mature] and getting down to business... Director’s Statement: Malik Vitthal We all have the ability to control how we respond to TIMES Director: Malik Vitthal adversity. The young men from South Central in Los Producers: Katherine Fairfax Wright, Angeles whose real-life struggles inspired our story Friday 9:20pm Jonathan Schwartz, Andrea Sperling represent the challenging socioeconomic and emotional Saturday 6:20pm Co-Producer: Bobby Yay Yay Jones realities that so many people of color in American inner Sunday 12:20pm Screenwriters: Ismet Prcic, cities face. It’s not a film about desperation though; it Monday 9:50am Malik Vitthal is about hope. It is about young men who grow all the Cinematographer: more empowered to achieve their dreams when their families — stuck in the Monika Lenczewska destructive cycle of drugs, gangs, and crime — don’t provide the support that Editor: Suzanne Spangler they need. These men construct their own spheres of support, creating crucial Music: Flying Lotus turning points when everything around them is in chaos. Principal Cast: Rotimi Akinosho, Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut De’Aundre Bonds, John Boyega, Keke Palmer, Glenn Plummer

Our practice is built around relationships: Is This The Real World 90 minutes | 2014 | Australia we recognize the value of being a partner to our clients, Our practice is built around relationships: eventeen-year-old Mark is a smart kid from a chaotic family living in the we recognizeOur practice thenot value just is built ofa beanbeing around counter. a partner relationships: to our clients, Scoastal town of Victoria, Australia. He has just thrown away a scholarship to a private school and finds himself at the local public high school, where he we recognize thenot value just ofa beanbeing counter. a partner to our clients, butts heads with an overbearing principal and bullying students. At home, For new clients the initial consultation is complimentary. Mark is dealing with a jail-bound brother, a sickly grandmother, and an not just a bean counter. alcoholic mother. When Mark finds his first real love, the relationship is an For new clients the initial consultation is complimentary. opportunity to escape all the competing forces in his life. But escape only For new clients the initial consultation is complimentary. brings the adult world of authority crashing down on him. The film explores family relationships, teen love, rebellion, and what happens when a young man isn’t quite ready to grow up.

TIMES Director & Screenwriter: Martin McKenna Director’s Statement: Martin McKenna Thursday 6:40pm Producer & Executive Producer: This is the story of a journey from childhood Sunday 9:40pm Deborah Barlow to the adult realm, and the intriguing tension of authority’s role in gaining independence. It Monday 9:40pm Co-Producer: Alison Telford Cinematographer: Ellery Ryan is a narrative that everyone has some emotional Editor: Ben Joss connection to. Even the eternal teenagers Music: Robert Murray Jamieson amongst us have wrestled with the question of Principal Cast: Charlotte Best, how to leave the summer days of childhood and Julia Blake, Sean Keenan, enter the world of adults. This film unfolds gradually. It has a careful and Susie Porter, Greg Stone deliberate pace that allows an audience to sit with moments while all the 290290 N. N. MAIN MAIN ST ST | |SUITESUITE 8 ||ASHLAND,ASHLAND, OR OR 97520 97520 time building to a cathartic climax. It is an intelligent and emotional story 290 N. V:MAINV: 5 54141.488Ž1551 ST.488Ž1551 | SUITE |8F:F: | ASHLAND,554141.48.488Ž18Ž1552552 OR 97520 that rewards an audience open to it. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut V:INFO‘NAGELPADILLA.COMINFO‘NAGELPADILLA.COM 541.488Ž1551 | F: 541.488Ž1552 INFO‘NAGELPADILLA.COM PAGE 62 PAGE 63 FEATURESFEATURES Lake Los Angeles FEATURES85 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition rancisco, a middle-aged Cuban exile, looks after undocumented immigrants Fat a cabin hidden in the California desert. He forges a tentative father- daughter relationship with Cecilia, a 10-year-old Mexican girl who has crossed the border alone in search of a father she has never met. When all hope of being reconnected with him fails, and she is under threat from her “coyote,” Cecilia runs away deeper into the desert. She turns the wind-scrubbed wasteland into a fantastical world and creates characters and stories that make the hopelessness of the empty landscape survivable. Traversing what was meant to be their promised land, Francisco and Cecilia find hope and redemption in each other in this hauntingly beautiful and desolate world. Director: Mike Ott TIMES Director’s Statement: Mike Ott rolling Producers: Drea Clark, Alexandra Closeups with professors who know your name and Gioulakis, Atsuko Okatsuka, In the late ‘60s, Lake Los Angeles was sold as a para- have the highest degrees in their fields. Myriad scripts Thursday 3:30pm Trinity Shi, Frederick Thornton dise to move to, a fictitious “resort town” that is now to earning your degree. On location in a spectacular Friday 12:30pm nothing more than a dried-up lake bed surrounded by a natural setting for a superb educational experience. Saturday 3:30pm Executive Producer: Athina Rachel Tsangari deserted and dying landscape. There’s an air of mystery Sunday 3:30pm Co-Producer: Kerim Duran and loneliness when you enter the town and spend Monday 6:30pm Screenwriters: time with the people who inhabit it, and you can’t help OUTSTANDING Atsuko Okatsuka, Mike Ott but wonder what brought them there, and for some, why they stay. With this People. Programs. Place. Cinematographer: film, I wanted to explore what happens when the hopeful collide with the sou.edu/AIFF | 800-482-7672 Michael Gioulakis hopeless — in this case the hopeless landscape of Lake Los Angeles itself. Editor: Jose Santos Selected Filmography: Littlerock, Pearblossom Highway Music: María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir Principal Cast: Eloy Mendez, Roberto Sanchez, Johanna Trujillo

Man From Reno 111 minutes | 2014 | USA Find Products. stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, crime novelist A Aki becomes romantically involved with an alluring but mysterious Get Ratings. Japanese traveler. He abruptly disappears, leaving behind his suitcase and a lot of questions. Meanwhile, a small town sheriff from the outskirts of the Shop Smarter. city is driving home through the fog when he accidentally strikes a lone man who appears suddenly on the road. Before an investigation can begin, the man vanishes. A trail of clues lures Aki and the sheriff down sinister and seductive turns in this engrossing, genre-bending modern film noir. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Dave Boyle A few years ago, I wrote an epic mystery project Director: Dave Boyle TIMES called Osaka Bay Blues about a Japanese private Producer: Ko Mori detective who uncovers a death cult masquerading Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producers: Nelson Cheng, as a multilevel marketing company. It was big, it was Saturday 9:40pm Fredric Delmais, Ron Eliot, Daryl Furr, epic, and it was a very tough sell for a director who had Monday 3:40pm Pepe Serna, Emily Ting, Timothy never made a thriller before. My producer suggested Wenhold, Wade Winningham that I write something in a similar vein but on a more Co-Producers: Taro Goto, Ben Lyon, limited scale. Somewhere along the line, Man From Reno became my passion Shohei Sano, Alex Verba HEALTH ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY project. I fell in love with the idea of telling a far-fetched crime story with a Screenwriters: Dave Boyle, completely straight face. Joel Clark, Michael Lerman Cinematographer: Richard Wong Selected Filmography: Big Dreams Little Tokyo (AIFF07), Surrogate Valentine Editors: Dave Boyle, Sean Gillane, Yasu Inoue www.GoodGuide.com Principal Cast: Ayako Fujitani, Kazuki Kitamura, Pepe Serna

PAGE 64 PAGE 65 FEATURES Proud Citizen 90 minutes | 2014 | USA, Bulgaria | In Competition

fter winning second place in a playwriting contest, Krasi travels from her Ahome in Bulgaria to Lexington, Kentucky, for the premiere of her auto- biographical, Communist-era play, Black Coat. Expecting to be entertained by Southern hospitality, she finds herself alone and stranded in her hotel just off the interstate. Attempting to discover America on foot, she befriends a collection of interesting strangers along the way. This charming film has the feel of an intimate documentary with its clever use of local people WORTH EVERY MINUTE and locations. Sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking, the film is a meditation on culture shock, disappointment, the comfort of strangers, and the joy of funnel cakes. TIMES Director, Producer, Cinematographer & Editor: Director’s Statement: Thom Southerland Connecting our Communities. Thursday 9:10pm Thom Southerland After a few years of keeping my documentary and Friday 12:10pm Executive Producers: narrative work separate, I decided to combine the two Jason Lewis, Mark B. Greene Connecting our Worlds. Saturday 9:40am after hearing a woman’s foreign accent on the radio one Screenwriters: Sami Allison, day while driving to work. Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s Sunday 3:10pm Ryan Case, Leif Erickson, Monday 12:10pm voice on her weekly radio program about arts and culture Thom Southerland, in Lexington, Kentucky, inspired a collaboration between Connecting our Spirits. Monday 6:10pm Katerina Stoykova-Klemer the two of us. My previous work had been very controlled Music: Otto Helmuth Since 1969 Jefferson Public Radio has provided a and tightly scripted. But for this project we tried to make Principal Cast: Sami Allsion, a film as spontaneous and mysterious as life can often be. We shot 50 hours Ryan Case, Leif Erickson, of unscripted footage and I spent over a year piecing together a narrative. The connection to the people, events and ideas that shape Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, judy Sanders story was shaped by Katerina’s real-life history, and the tone of the film was Ashland, our region and our world. We’ve covered the influenced by many of her poems. news with a belief that informed people make better Selected Filmography: Fourteen (AIFF03) citizens. We’ve approached music as a vital connection to the human spirit. Like the Ashland Independent Slow West 84 minutes | 2015 | United Kingdom, New Zealand Film Festival, JPR is proud to be one of the things that his contemporary take on the traditional western tells the story of naïve T16-year-old Jay Cavendish, a Scottish aristocrat, on his quest to find his contribute to the quality of life in Ashland and the former lover in the dangerous American West of the late 19th century. He meets up with Silas (Michael Fassbender), a gritty, mysterious traveler who, Rogue Valley. It’s worth every minute you listen … on discovering that there is a bounty for the girl in question, agrees to protect Jay — for a price. Together, the two navigate the vast, untamed frontier while and every dollar you give. Learn more at www.ijpr.org. attempting to stay one step ahead of a dangerous posse. Jay soon learns that the West takes no pity, least of all on the innocent. [mature] Director’s Statement: John Maclean After graduating from art school, I formed The Beta Director & Screenwriter: Band with a couple of friends. I made many of our music TIMES John Maclean videos, which were very DIY, and were a great training Friday 3:20pm Producers: Iain Canning, ground for filmmaking with little to no budget. Writing Saturday 9:20pm Rachel Gardner, Conor McCaughan, this script was a challenge with many dark days of doubt. Emile Sherman Monday 12:20pm The research came mostly from authentic accounts and Executive Producers: other writings from the Old West. We didn’t want to look Katherine Butler, Michael Fassbender, at any mythmaking stuff. I didn’t even really look at Westerns if I could help it. Zygi Kamasa Editing was a reflection of the writing process. Sandwiched in the middle was Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan the shoot, which everyone told me would be stressful and difficult — in fact it Editors: Roland Gallois, Jon Gregory was wonderful. Composer: Jed Kurzel Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Principal Cast: Michael Fassbender, Rory McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Caren In Ashland Classics & News 88.3 FM N Rhythm & News 89.1 FM N News & Information 1230 AM Pistorius, Kodi Smit-McPhee

PAGE 66 PAGE 67 FEATURES FEATURES Song of the Sea Academy Award Nominee | 93 minutes | 2014 | Ireland The Well 94 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition

he enthralling story of the last seal-child, Saoirse, and her brother Ben, t the edge of an expansive, barren valley, all that remains of the Wallace Twho go on an epic journey and discover the secrets of their past. Pursued AFarm for Wayward Youth are a few hollowed-out husks of old buildings. by the owl witch, Macha, and a host of ancient and mystical creatures, they It’s been a decade since the last rainfall, and society has dried up and blown race against time to awaken Saoirse’s powers and keep the spirit world from away, along with most living things. Seventeen-year-old Kendal and the few disappearing forever. Inspired by the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, other people remaining can barely recall when the Oregon valley was still lush. who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land, this breathtakingly Kendal dreams of escaping with her brother and a young boy she watches gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece blends the ancient with the modern for a over. When a greedy, violent water baron lays claim to the precious few water poetic, visual experience for audiences of all ages! resources that remain, a heroic Kendal stands up to him and bravely fights for the few cherished people she has left. [mature] Director’s Statement: Tomm Moore Song of the Sea grew from ideas I had during the making Director’s Statement: Tom Hammock of Secret of Kells, so it is in many ways a spiritual follow Here in the US, we are in the midst of a massive Director & Story: Tomm Moore TIMES up rather than a real sequel or anything like that. It’s TIMES Director: Tom Hammock drought. It’s been getting worse with each year. Screenplay: William Collins got a similar feeling in that the art style is again very Producers: Seth Caplan, Governments have historically controlled their Friday 6:40pm Music: Bruno Coulais, Kíla handmade looking. The story is also based around Irish Thursday 6:30pm Jacob Forman, Chris Harding populations by controlling the water supply. This Saturday 3:40pm Principal Cast: Fionnula Flanagan, folklore and legends, but this time I tried to make a more Friday 10:00am Executive Producers: Billy Federighi, idea forms the basis of The Well. We stepped back Sunday 12:40pm Brendan Gleeson, Lisa Hannigan, personal film based on my memories of being a child in Saturday 12:30pm Dante Federighi from the enormous scale of this water issue to Lucy O’Connell, David Rawle Ireland in the 1980s. I’m pretty sure that adults and teen- Sunday 10:00am Screenwriter: Jacob Forman focus on a very small, character-driven story set many years into our current agers will enjoy the visuals and the music and story, but I Monday 12:30pm Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney drought. A single dry valley controlled by killers, and two teenagers hiding in wanted to make a film that younger audiences could enjoy and then come back Editors: Sarah Broshar, Adam Wingard fear, defending the valley’s last working well, is the classic western storyline, to again and again as they grew up. Music: Craig DeLeon mixed up with a postapocalyptic world and elements of horror and action. We Principal Cast: Jon Gries, Haley Lu Selected Filmography: The Secret of Kells consciously allowed elements of these different film genres to creep into our Richardson, Booboo Stewart film without adhering to the rules of any particular one. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

Wildlike 104 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition ackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent by her struggling Mmother to live with her uncle (Brian Geraghty) in Juneau, Alaska. As her mother’s phone calls become less frequent and her uncle’s care is not what it seems, she runs away. Her only thoughts are to escape her uncle and somehow contact her mother, but as she plunges deeper into the Alaskan interior, she is suddenly, helplessly alone. A chance connection with a reticent backpacker, Bartlett (Bruce Greenwood), proves to be her only lifeline. As Mackenzie shadows Bartlett across the last frontier, she thwarts his efforts to cut her loose until he has no choice but to help her survive. Against the backdrop of the spectacular Alaskan wilderness, they discover sanctuary and the redemptive power of friendship. [mature]

TIMES Director & Screenwriter: Director’s Statement: Frank Hall Green Frank Hall Green What do people run away from? Or run away to? I had Thursday 6:00pm Producer: Julie Christeas Executive Producer: been moved by a New York Times editorial on sexual Friday 9:00pm abuse. The inescapable pain drove innocent girls like Sunday 12:00pm Christine Vachon Co-Producers: Joseph Stephans, Mackenzie to run away from their perpetrators, them- Schuylar Weiss selves, and their problems. On an extended research trip Cinematographer: Hillary Spera to Alaska, I read of the state’s high molestation rate. It Editor: Mako Kamitsuna became clear that there were two frontiers in this film Music: Daniel Bensi, — that of Alaska, and that of innocence. The character Bartlett is also on a Saunder Jurriaans journey, running from the grief of a painful loss. When one encounters the Principal Cast: Ann Dowd, right person, recovery can begin, and the wilderness has the power to help. Nolan Gerard Funk, Brian Geraghty, Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Bruce Greenwood, Ella Purnell

PAGE 68 PAGE 69 SHORTS SHORTS Our short films are limited only by their length! Exciting new talent, Oscar nominees and stories from around the globe. Films play in order listed.

Short Stories SHORT FILM PROGRAMS Thursday 9:40pm, Friday 6:40pm, Sunday Academy Award-nominated 6:40pm | 80 minutes short films Stop SKUNK [M] ® [M] Oscar Shorts 1 Baghdad Messi [M, S] Saturday 9:30am | 81 minutes | Me and My Moulton* Shorts & Docs In the Still of the Night [S] A Single Life Birthday Joanna [S] *Academy Award Nominee AYA [S]

A late night mix of edgy and boundary-expanding short films After Hours: Mark Shapiro of LAIKA (Coraline, The Boxtrolls) [M] has curated this outstanding selection of Shorts & Docs international animation from his visits to Friday 9:30pm, Saturday 9:30pm, Sunday 9:30pm, Monday 9:30pm | 87 minutes animation festivals worldwide, including the UK, Switzerland, Russia, Germany, and Pop-Up Porno: m4m the US. Mark will be present for Q&As after Russian Roulette the screenings. Pink Grapefruit My Own Personal Moose [S] Animation Shorts [M, S] unmappable Pop-Up Porno: f4m Friday 3:40pm, Saturday 6:40pm, Sunday 6:40pm | 79 minutes Best Sound The Bad Boy of Bowling Aubade We Can’t Live Without Cosmos Timber The Shirley Temple Check out the Family Shorts program WIND The Wound (page 25) for family-friendly short films 365 Through the Hawthorn Footprints The Bigger Picture* AIFF Award Winning Shorts *Academy Award Nominee Monday 3:20pm See the 2015 Juried and Audience Award winning short films

PAGE 70 PAGE 71 SHORTS SHORTS 365 7 minutes | 2014 | United Kingdom Aubade 5 minutes | 2014 | Switzerland reg McLeod created one second of animation every day for a year. There black sun rises on Lake Geneva. In a surrealistic backlit scene, swimmers Gwas no storyline, script or storyboard. His ideas came from things read, Aand birds witness the spectacle of the dawn, hypnotized by the spirited seen, or experienced on that day, with a little artistic license for good measure. music of a cellist. The result? A fast-paced stream of consciousness that is funny, poignant, and always memorable. Director’s Statement: Mauro Carraro Aubade invites us to take our time, let ourselves be Director’s Statement: The Brothers McLeod bewitched, and simply attend the spectacle offered by Greg McLeod: It struck me as an interesting chal- the sun every morning on the water. lenge and one that wouldn’t be tied down by a Selected Filmography: Hasta Santiago, Matatoro traditional narrative structure. I had to post a still TIMES Director & Screenwriter: TIMES Directors: The Brothers McLeod Mauro Carraro Animator: Greg McLeod from each day on Facebook with an explanation Friday 3:40pm of the image. My brother Myles made sure I didn’t Friday 3:40pm Producer: Nicolas Burlet, Saturday 6:40pm Zoltan Horvath Saturday 6:40pm redo or reuse any animation. That was it, really. It was a challenge and time Sunday 6:40pm Executive Producer: Nicolas Burlet Sunday 6:40pm consuming, over a thousand hours of work. But I found it very rewarding. It Editor: Mauro Carraro, Zoltan Horvath P L A Y S I N was like an animation gym with a workout every day. I’d say I’m pretty fit now! P L A Y S I N Music: Mich Gerber Selected Filmography: The Existential Pleading of the Inner Heart Animation Shorts Animator: Clement Espinosa Animation Shorts Sound: Martin Stricker (p 68) (p 68)

Anatole’s Little Saucepan 5 minutes | 2014 | France AYA 39 minutes | 2013 | France, Israel natole is always dragging his little saucepan behind him. It gets stuck his wry romantic comedy tells the story of two strangers who meet at an Aeverywhere, and it keeps him from getting on. One day, Anatole cannot Tairport. He mistakenly assumes she is his assigned driver. She, enchanted bear it anymore, and he decides to hide. Ah, but things are not that simple. by the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong. [subtitles]

Director’s Statement: Eric Montchaud Directors’ Statement: Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis One day my son found the illustrated book by Isabelle When thinking back through memories of special moments Carrier in the back of the library and he asked me to in life, it can be quite perplexing or even guilt-provoking read it. I immediately knew that I wanted to make a to admit that those moments which stand out, rise up, film. I knew this character — I saw him move, and all overtake all others, are not necessarily those that are at the TIMES Directors: Oded Binnun, Mihal Brezis I wanted to do was share Isabelle’s story. So I contacted Producers: Yael Abecassis, center of one’s existence, but rather something episodic, TIMES Director: Eric Montchaud her, and to my great joy, she was at once delighted and Saturday 9:30am Hillel Roseman barely definable. Moments from coincidental encounters, Executive Producer: disturbed to see Anatole freed from the pages of her book. Co-Producer: Pablo Mahler Th 10:10am &12:40pm Jean-Pierre Lemouland when for one brief period, two people are open enough to Selected Filmography: L’odeur du Chien Mouillé (The Smell of Wet Dog) P L A Y S I N Screenwriters: Oded Binnun, engage and communicate. We wanted to recreate the magic Fri 10:10am &12:40pm Animators: Pierre-Luc Granjon, Mihal Brezis, Tom Shoval Marjolaine Parot Oscar Shorts 1 (p 69) of such fragments of time, because to us, they truly lie at the Saturday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Oded Binnun Sunday 10:10am Music: Pierre Bastien core of our existence. Principal Cast: Isabelle Carrier Editor: Dov Steuer Selected Filmography: Lost Paradise, Sabbath Entertainment P L A Y S I N Music: Ishay Adar, Ronen Shapira Principal Cast: Sarah Adler, Ulrich Family Shorts (p 25) Thomsen

PAGE 72 PAGE 73 SHORTS SHORTS Baghdad Messi 16 minutes | 2013 | Iraq Birthday 12 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition en-year-old Hamoudi has only one leg. Still, he’s totally obsessed with hen a young military wife receives news that her husband, whom she Tsoccer. Just like the rest of the world, he and his friends are eagerly Wloves deeply, has been severely wounded in combat, she must come to looking forward to the 2009 Champions League Final between FC Barcelona terms with her grief and the difficult life in store for them. She soon realizes and Manchester United, and the long-awaited showdown between rivals it will be an amazing journey no matter what. Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. But then Hamoudi’s television breaks down… [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Chris King Birthday is not pro-war or anti-war. It is a simple Director’s Statement: Sahim Omar Kalifa story of love, strength and courage seen through I have been passionate about soccer since I was a enormous adversity. It is a passion project that TIMES Director & Screenwriter: TIMES Director, Screenwriter & Editor: Sahim Omar Kalifa child. No matter how complicated our situation Chris King took two years to finance and film. I am a veteran Thursday 9:40pm Producer: Kobe Van Steenberghe growing up in Iraq, my friends and I could always Thursday 9:40pm Producers: Chris King, Heather King myself, and so my wife Heather and I appreciate Friday 6:40pm Executive Producer: Hendrik Verth find solace in a good match, playing ourselves or Friday 6:40pm Executive Producers: Jacqueline Calkin, greatly the sacrifices our wounded veterans and Sunday 10:10am Cinematographer: Robrecht Heyvaert watching on TV. I wanted to show how a simple Sunday 10:10am Chris King, Heather King their spouses make. This is our ode to two souls forging ahead during Editor: Pieter Jan Bergmans passion can make you forget actual danger. How Co-Producer: Eric Wheeler enormously difficult times, like so many of our veterans and their families P L A Y S I N P L A Y S I N Music: Hannes De Maeyer a child’s imagination is a stronghold, no matter Cinematographer: Ryan Todd have had to do and are still doing. Short Stories (p 69) Principal Cast: Noor Al-Hoda, Hayder where you grow up. That’s what I really wanted to show with this film. Short Stories (p 69) Music: Jonsi & Alex Helo, Ali Raad El Zaidawy Principal Cast: Mandy Moody, Selected Filmography: Rachel, The Killing of Mary Surratt Selected Filmography: Zwart Water, Land of the Heroes Chris Gouchoe

The Bigger Picture Academy Award Nominee | 7 minutes | 2014 | United Kingdom COWS (Moosic Video) 3 minutes | 2014 | USA he Bigger Picture uses an innovative mix of life-sized paintings and simple and stylish animated film by Sandra Boynton that features an Tstop-motion animation to tell the bittersweet, darkly humorous, and very A all-out Broadway number performed by overambitious bovines, and a real story of two brothers struggling to care for their elderly mother. And song performed by The Seldom Herd, an enthusiastic albeit fictitious musical Mother isn’t going to make it easy on either of them. group. A delightful romp for children and adults.

Director’s Statement: Daisy Jacobs Director’s Statement: Sandra Boynton The film is, fundamentally, a morality tale that COWS is my very first solo animation. I went about this urges us to look beyond our own narrow, selfish using a probably peculiar animation technique: I drew lives, and see “the bigger picture.” I wanted creative the art outlines by hand, then created WAY too many Director & Screenwriter: Daisy Jacobs TIMES expression and medium to complement this colored stills, then imported them all into Final Cut for Producer: Chris Hees TIMES Director, Producer & Animator: editing. It’s cel animation of a sort. I had a great time Friday 3:40pm Executive Producer: NFTS message. Animation comes off the page, away from Sandra Boynton puzzling out the basics of how animation works, and I Saturday 6:40pm Cinematographer: Max Williams miniatures, into full-size film sets, where painted Th 10:10am &12:40pm Editors & Music: Sunday 6:40pm Editor: Vera Simmonds characters explode twenty feet up a wall and burst out of the conventional Fri 10:10am &12:40pm Sandra Boynton & Michael Ford hope the somewhat primitive animation style of COWS Music: Huw Bunford “frame,” and where characters are created not with small movements of a pencil Saturday 12:40pm is part of its peculiar charm. P L A Y S I N Animators: Daisy Jacobs, but with sweeping, physically-demanding movements of my whole body. Sunday 10:10am Selected Filmography: One Shoe Blues (AIFF11), Philadelphia Chickens (AIFF11), Alligator Stroll (AIFF14) Animation Shorts Christopher Wilder Selected Filmography: Tosh, Don Justino de Neve (p 68) Principal Cast: Anne Cunningham, P L A Y S I N Christopher Nightingale, Alisdair Simpson Family Shorts (p 25)

PAGE 74 PAGE 75 SHORTS SHORTS The Dam Keeper Academy Award® Nominee | 18 minutes | 2014 | USA In the Still of the Night 13 minutes | 2014 | Austria he story of Pig and Fox — who become best friends despite schoolmates n a rainy night, three children wait for their father who is late again. Twho bully them, the indifference of adults and the ever-present threat OWhen he finally comes home, laden with gifts, they are happy. Father of a cloud of pollution that only Pig can keep from destroying the town. plays the piano, and the youngest daughter dances a ballet. Only the eldest Traditional hand-drawn figures combined with digital painting bring this daughter suspects anything is wrong, as she senses her parents’ apprehension. sweet fable to life. [subtitles, mature] Directors’ Statement: Robert Kondo, Dice Tsutsumi Director’s Statement: Erich Steiner Toward the end of production on Monsters University, In 2009, I saw a theater piece based on the true we decided to take time off from being art directors at TIMES Director & Screenwriter: Erich Steiner story of a family from Oberwart (southeastern Directors: Robert Kondo, Pixar to make a short film. Our goal creatively was to tell an Producers: Sabine Eckerstorfer, Austria, near the Hungarian border). The dramatic TIMES Thursday 9:40pm Erich Steiner Dice Tsutsumi emotional story about a character that changes the way he decision that the adults of the family had to face Th 10:10am &12:40pm Friday 6:40pm Executive Producer: Roman Sorger Producers: Megan Bartel, sees the world, rather than the world around him changing. haunted me for quite some time. While I was doing Fri 10:10am &12:40pm Sunday 10:10am Co-Producer: Stephan Wabl Duncan Ramsay We were naively thinking we could finish the whole thing research on the case, I discovered quite similar and horrifying events had Saturday 12:40pm Editor: Bradley Furnish Cinematographer: Mario Minichmayr in three months. We thought we knew how animated film- P L A Y S I N happened in Hungary and other European countries. These cases strengthened Sunday 10:10am Music: Zach Johnston, Matteo Roberts Editor: Peter Bruenner making worked, but felt like every day we were putting out my conviction that this was a relevant story that needs to be told! Animator: Erick Oh Short Stories Music: Pascal Holper a fire. We really grew as filmmakers and as artists, and now P L A Y S I N Principal Cast: Lars Mikkelsen (p 69) Principal Cast: Stella Butz, Selected Filmography: On a Journey with Death, Fragments in Time Family Shorts (p 25) we don’t want to stop. Johannes Silberschneider, Martina Stilp Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Footprints 4 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Marathon 14 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition n the latest hand-drawn pen and ink animation from Bill Plympton, young woman stifled by her future sets out to find someone from her IAIFF Artistic Achievement Award honoree, a hunter goes in search of a A past. She soon realizes that the journey she’s embarked on might be mysterious monster that is destroying the environment, only to arrive at an more complicated than she imagines. [mature, subtitles] unexpected revelation. Director’s Statement: Lauren Smitelli Director’s Statement: Bill Plympton A nasty saleswoman once tried to convince me I I feel that Footprints is one of my most meaningful couldn’t run a marathon, even though I was in her films — besides being funny, it has a message, shoe store to buy sneakers. I was already annoyed, also albeit an elusive one. TIMES Director & Screenwriter: slightly embarrassed, and then I realized that there Selected Filmography: The Fan and the Flower (AIFF05), Horn Dog Lauren Smitelli was someone else there who I didn’t feel like speaking Thursday 3:10pm Producers: David Futernick, to. So I ran. And kept running. For way too long. TIMES Director, Executive Producer, (AIFF09), Idiots and Angels (AIFF09) Friday 9:10pm Screenwriter & Animator: Aaron Schnobrich What should have been me “getting a feel for the shoe” Saturday 12:10pm Cinematographer: Vincent Peone Friday 3:40pm Bill Plympton turned into a much bigger deal. Afterwards, I thought it was so terribly funny Saturday 9:10pm Editor: Julio C. Perez IV Saturday 6:40pm Producer & Editor: that I wanted to try and build a dramatic story off of that exact moment of Sunday 6:40pm Wendy Cong Zhao Sunday 9:40am Music: Stephen Kaye shock, embarrassment, and awkwardness. Music: Corey Allen Jackson Monday 3:10pm Principal Cast: Elaine Carroll P L A Y S I N P L A Y S W I T H Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Animation Shorts (p 68) Christmas, Again (p 59)

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ontarget is the solution to ontarget is the solution to PAGEhelp 78 your business grow! PAGE 79 help your business grow! SHORTS Pink Grapefruit 11 minutes | 2015 | USA | In Competition young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm A Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned. [mature] Director’s Statement: Michael Mohan As we often measure the happiness of our own relationships by comparing them to others, it felt natural for this story to contain outward themes TIMES Director: Michael Mohan of voyeurism. So rather than drawing from the Producers: Greg Gilreath, aesthetics of traditional relationship films, I wanted Fr 9:30pm, Sa 9:30pm Adam Hendricks, John Lang to explore cinematic tropes from horror movies to Su 9:30pm Executive Producer: Shauna Eddy-Grouf Mo 9:30pm Screenwriters: Chris Levitus, really capture the sense of dread we feel when we Michael Mohan allow ourselves to be vulnerable. P L A Y S I N Cinematographer: Elisha Christian Selected Filmography: Save The Date, One Too Many Mornings After Hours: Shorts Editor: Christian Masini Dr. Cullen gladly welcomes & Docs (p 69) Principal Cast: Nora Kirkpatrick, Wendy McColm, Matt Peters, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett new patients and families. Russian Roulette 5 minutes | 2014 | United Kingdom n this sweet live-action short, London seems a little less lonely when Lucy Imeets a cosmonaut on Chatroulette, an online chat site. [mature] Director’s Statement: Ben Aston Made for under £50 ($75) while on preproduction for another film, Russian Roulette is proof that the best effect your astro-short will ever need is a smart writer (Oli Fenton) and great actors (Bec Hill, Stewart TIMES Director & Editor: Ben Aston Lockwood). Producer: Ryan Bennett Selected Filmography: Dinner and a Movie, He Took His Skin Off For Me Fr 9:30pm, Sa 9:30pm Screenwriter: Oli Fenton Su 9:30pm Cinematographer: Darren Joe Mo 9:30pm Music: James Morris Principal Cast: Bec Hill, P L A Y S I N Stewart Lockwood After Hours: Shorts & Docs (p 69)

The Shirley Temple 10 minutes | 2013 | United Kingdom oundaries are blurred for a young boy attending his mother’s cocktail Bparty. Characters and symbols interact in an abstract look at the relation- ships between childhood and adulthood, escapism, and sexuality. Director’s Statement: Daniela Sherer I think animation is all about movement and timing. I like to manipulate the drawings in my films to such a degree that they become completely abstract moving shapes. I use those abstract elements, characters, and the energy TIMES Director, Screenwriter, Editor & Animator: Daniela Sherer of the overall animated movement to tell stories. Friday 3:40pm Producers: Daniela Sherer, Selected Filmography: Overnight Stay Saturday 6:40pm Royal College of Art Sunday 6:40pm Music: Duncan Thum Sound: Joe Tate P L A Y S I N Animation Shorts (p 69)

PAGE 80 PAGE 81 SHORTS SHORTS A Single Life Academy Award Nominee | 2 minutes | 2014 | Netherlands Through the Hawthorn 11 minutes | 2014 | United Kingdom he curious Pia receives a vinyl record in the mail and soon discovers its am has stopped taking his medication; he doesn’t think he is ill. His mother Tpower to move — and to move her — back and forth through time. S is distraught, and the doctor thinks he should change the medication. Inspired by the book Henry’s Demons and by actual family therapy sessions, Directors’ Statement: Job, Joris & Marieke this intriguing film presents a psychiatrist and a troubled boy and his mother; We always start with an idea with a twist. all three perspectives presented simultaneously on an animated triptych, each So for instance with A Single Life, it was drawn by a different artist. quite an old idea. During our student time, all three of us were listening to a record. TIMES Directors: Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Directors’ Statement: Suddenly it skipped and the idea arose Gemma Burditt Friday 3:40pm Producers: Anna Benner, D R Hood, Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt that the record didn’t skip, but instead we Likely Story Directors, Producers, Screenwriters travelled a tiny bit in time. The idea stayed with us for some years and finally Saturday 6:40pm The emphasis in family therapy is on the family unit TIMES & Animators: Job, Joris & Marieke Screenwriter: D R Hood we started talking about it some more and imagined what else could happen Sunday 6:40pm Editor: Jo Ann Kaplan rather than on the individual and his or her “problem.” Music: Happy Camper Saturday 9:30am with the record. Animators: Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma We feel that this is a fascinating subject for artists. P L A Y S I N Burditt, Sergei Shabarov, Jenny Lewis, We ask the audience to reflect upon the subject of communication in a P L A Y S I N Selected Filmography: MUTE Animation Shorts Duncan Gist, Steven Nanson, Marin Matsuo, situation where one mind is working in a completely different way from another. Eddy Kastin, Tiff Howick, Helena Patay, Oscar Shorts 1 (p 68) (p 68) Jimmy Cliftlands, Sajan Rai, Asya Lukin, We looked for graphic ways of expressing both verbal and behavioural Amelia Borg, Kim Noce communication, moving into abstract, poetic territory in the middle of the film. Principal Cast: Louise Breckon-Richards, SKUNK 16 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Dominic Cannon, Mike Sarne Selected Filmography: Anna Benner – Tis the Season; Pia Borg – Crystal World; Gemma Burditt – Urban Birds iving with her single mother in an isolated subdivision in rural Texas, Timber 6 minutes | 2014 | Switzerland L14-year-old Leila’s deepest connection is with her pack of rescued dogs. When her beloved pit bull is stolen by an aspiring dog fighter, Leila is forced group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they to stand up for herself at the cost of her own innocence. [language, mature] A realize that their own bodies are all they have to fuel a warming fire, things start heating up! Director’s Statement: Annie Silverstein SKUNK is part of a series of films I’ve done exploring Director’s Statement: Nils Hedinger youth culture and coming of age. Before moving What interests me in animation is being able to tell to Austin, I spent a decade working with kids on a story on multiple levels. I hope that my films are TIMES Director & Screenwriter: Annie Silverstein Producer: Monique Walton different Indian reservations in Washington State, funny, entertaining, and thought-provoking. And using films to tell stories about their lives. The world Director, Screenwriter, additionally, I just like to sit at my desk, in complete Thursday 9:40pm Executive Producers: Adrienne Dealy, TIMES Cinematographer & Animator: Joshua Thelin, Laurent Tran Friday 6:40pm of SKUNK is based loosely on the experiences of Friday 3:40pm Nils Hedinger solitude, and to repeat the same drawing over and over Co-Producers: Kelsey Coggin, kids I worked with during this time. a million times. Sunday 10:10am Sarah Kolb, Evan Roberts Saturday 6:40pm Producer: prêt-à-tourner Executive Producer: Lina Geissmann P L A Y S I N Cinematographer: Nathan Duncan Selected Filmography: Spark, Noc na Tanecku (Night at the Dance) Sunday 6:40pm Selected Filmography: Chantons Ensemble, Im Unzusammenhang, Editor: Josh Melrod Editor: Mischa Hedinger Animal Kingdom Short Stories (p 69) Music: William Ryan Fritch P L A Y S I N Music: Tobi Diggelmann Principal Cast: Jenivieve Nugent, Kiowa Tucker Animation Shorts Sound Design & Foley: (p 68) Thomas Gassmann Stop 9 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition We Can’t Live Without Cosmos 15 minutes | 2014 | Russia high school baseball player is profiled by the police and stopped on his Away home from practice. Xavier’s entire future hangs in the balance in wo cosmonauts who are friends do their best while training every day to this timely, realistic, and relevant short. Tmake their common dream come true. But this story is not only about the dream. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Reinaldo Marcus Green Director: Konstantin Bronzit Growing up African American in NYC, I have person- ally been subjected to the NYPD’s controversial “Stop Selected Filmography: At the Ends of the Earth, The God Director & Screenwriter: and Frisk” policies. The issue of humanity comes into TIMES TIMES Director, Screenwriter, Reinaldo Marcus Green question when an individual is stopped merely on the Cinematographer & Editor: Thursday 9:40pm Producer: Chiara Bernasconi basis of his or her skin tone. I was drawn to make a Friday 3:40pm Konstantin Bronzit Friday 6:40pm Executive Producer: Rashaad Ernesto Green film that goes beyond the issue of right or wrong. I Saturday 6:40pm Producer: Alexander Boyarsky Co-Producer: Sergey Selyanov Sunday 10:10am Cinematographer: Federico Martin Cesca wanted to explore both sides of “Stop and Frisk” — victim and perpetrator. Sunday 6:40pm Editors: Justin Chan, Luiza Parvu Music: Valentin Vassenkov Although set against the backdrop of Brooklyn’s Red Hook projects, this is a P L A Y S I N Music: Ariel Marx, Stefan Swanson P L A Y S I N Animator: Vera Shiganova Principal Cast: Keishawn Butler, universal story that directly addresses issues of social injustice. In the end, I Design: Roman Sokolov Short Stories want the message Stop to help put an end to unconstitutional racial profiling. Animation Shorts (p 69) JW Cortes, Brian Pollock, Joshua Rivera, (p 68) Janelle Williamson Selected Filmography: Stone Cars, Anonymous, The Interview

PAGE 82 PAGE 83 SHORTS WIND 4 minutes | 2013 | Germany his film looks at the daily lives of people living in a windy area, who are Thelplessly exposed to the weather. Yet they have learned to deal with the difficult conditions, using the wind to their advantage. Director’s Statement: Robert Löbel I had two ideas for a long time — on the one hand, the breakdown of a social system and on the other, people TIMES Director, Producer, Screenwriter, who have learned to live in difficult places. Both have Cinematographer & Editor: Friday 3:40pm Robert Löbel a strong natural conflict, and people learn to deal with Saturday 6:40pm it. So for me the question was: How could I build an Sunday 6:40pm abstract natural system, which I could switch off for a moment? The first thing that came to my mind was the wind. Wind is natural P L A Y S I N and the perfect visual system. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, but still, it’s Animation Shorts difficult to live with. (p 68) Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut

The Wound 10 minutes | 2013 | Russia little girl suffers an emotional wound. In her imagination, the wound A takes on a life of its own in the form of a shaggy creature that becomes her best friend. They grow up together, side by side. Deeply settled in the girl’s mind, the creature seeks complete control of her life. Director’s Statement: Anna Budanova I am pleased that my work is understood and greatly appreciated by people from a different cultural back- ground. The film is based on my own memory and was TIMES Director: Anna Budanova Producers: Valentina Khizhnyakova, developed into a short anime with the help of several of Friday 3:40pm Irina Volodina my friends. Saturday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Anna Budanova Sunday 6:40pm Animators: Anna Budanova, Mihail Dvorjankin, Anna Krickaja P L A Y S I N Sound Design: Nadezhda Shestakova Animation Shorts (p 68)

Zebra 2 minutes | 2013 | Germany ne day a zebra runs into a tree and suddenly loses his stripes. Then Osomething amazing happens. Director: Julia Ocker Selected Filmography: Kellerkind

TIMES Director & Animator: Julia Ocker Producer: Bianca Just Th 10:10am &12:40pm Executive Producer: Fri 10:10am &12:40pm Thomas Meyer-Hermann Saturday 12:40pm Artistic Direction: Andreas Hykade Sunday 10:10am Music: Christian Heck Principal Cast: Ferdinand Englönder P L A Y S I N Family Shorts (p 25)

PAGE 84 PAGE 85 the AIFF team 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.

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PAGE 90 PAGE 91 THANKS SCHEDULE Abiqua Wind Vineyard Cheryl Garvey Pairings Portland Wine Shop Active Acupuncture Alex Georgevitch Pangea Paul Adalian Brandon Givens & SOU Digital Media Center Patina Soul THURSDAY 4/9/15 AIFF Filmmakers John and Claire Golden-Fields Amy and Kent Patton VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL Amelia Arapoff Granite Taphouse Sean Pfister 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS

Art FX Fine Jewelry Grizzley Peak Winery Gracie Pfister 161 seats Ashland Custom Frame Austin Halvorsen Jessica Piekielek Ashland Home Net Staff Hands On Wellness Chiropractic Clinic Wolfgang Platzer 10:10am | Ashland Springs Hotel Management & Staff Hard Times Distillery Francis Plowman Shorts | 47 min Ashland Street Cinema Staff Hayden Teachout Photography Portland Center Stage 9am Ashland Wine Cellar Barbara Helfand Printfast Family Shorts Bacchanal Catering Home State BBQ Prize Shoppe Crissy Barnett Leah Hostetler Project A Staff Barbara Allen and Jim Batzer Aidan Hostetler Revive Home Decor Bruce Bayard Illuminating Touch Rogue Valley Roasting Company Beau Club Grill Imani Institute Dale and Kim Rooklyn Ken Bendat Japanese Gardens Tiazza Rose BendFilm Festival Joma Films Helen Rosen 12pm | Doc | 12:20pm | Docs | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | Doc | 12:30pm | Doc | 12:40pm | Bloomsbury Books Judith Pavlik Photography Rotary Club of Ashland Lithia Springs 87 min 74 min Feature | 111 min 70 min 71 min Shorts | 47 min

The Blue Giraffe Day Spa & Salon Jerry Kenefick Ruby’s Restaurant 12pm In Football Short Docs Man From Reno -1287 BARGE Family Shorts Blue Toba Zach Kennedy Kylee Ruvalcaba We Trust Bravo Outings Kalona Kierstede The Sacred Awakening Brickroom Amanda Kinney Salinity Salts Britt Festival Diane Kish Salon Juliet Brother’s Restaurant Gary Kout Sammich Ashland Ron Burgess La Baguette Dan Decena and Morgan Sammons Ana Byer La Perla Pizzeria Stephanie Scowden Water Street Cafe Cedric Lamar Kadie Skou, SOU Intern 3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Docs | 3:10pm | Feature 3:30pm | Feature | Cafe 116 Ledger David Cellars Smithfields Restaurant & Bar 98 min 86 min 78 min & Short | 94 min 85 min 3pm Caldera Brewing Company LGBTQ Juvenile Justice Fund of the Equity Eve Smyth 3 1/2 Minutes T-Rex How to Smell Christmas, Lake Los Kori and Scott Calvert Foundation Soroptimist International of Ashland a Rose: A Again Angeles Chris Cook, Capiche Joy Light Southern Oregon University Kathy Carter Lillie Belle Farms Artisan Chocolates Glenna and Mike Stiles Visit with Ricky Marathon Rick Carter Peter Linington Brent Streeper Leacock in Laura Chisholm Loft American Brasserie & Bar Bill and Jane Street Normandy Bob and Carol Church Anne Lundgren Ron Stringfield, Galaxy Wines Cailleach Neil Clooney Gary Lundgren Studio A.B Joe and Sally Collonge Dave Margulies Finnian Sullivan 6pm | Feature | 6:20pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Feature | 6:10pm | Doc | 6:30pm | 6pm | Doc | 7:30-10:30pm | Coming Attractions Theatres, Inc. Judith Anne McBride Sure Growth 104 min 93 min 90 min 78min Feature | 94 min 78 min Party 6pm Rich Conner Lovers McGovers Dick and Elaine Sweet Iris Harper Conner Nala McLala Three Penny Mercantile Wildlike Western Is This The KASAMAYAKI The Well Opening Night Chance Conner Rebecca McLennan Calleen and Luigi Tinonga Real World (Made in Bash Paris Conner McMenamins - North Bank Karen Toloui Kasama) Ashland Springs Jonah Cooper Ted Loftus and Katherine Mahoney Philip Trautman Hotel Diane DeMerritt and Daniel Hamnett Milagros Fresh Mexican Restaurant Barbara and Bill Tricarico Megan Davey, SOU Intern Alan and Mary Miller Candace Turtle David Gibb Photography & Design Carolyn Moeglein Jane Van Dyke Karen and Sid DeBoer Michael Moore Varsity Theatre Staff 9pm | Doc | 9:20pm | Doc | 9:40pm | Shorts | 9:10pm | Feature | 9:30pm | Doc | 9pm | Doc | Deluxe Awning Music Coop Amber Vernola Beth Ann Dolos, BD Metalworks Patrick Neary Randy Voris 102 min 80 min 80 min 90 min 79 min 120 min 9pm Michael Donovan Nimbus Marina and Park Walker Listen to Me Madina’s Short Stories Proud Citizen Florence, BRAND: Julie and Sean Downey Lloyd Haines & Zan Nix Walsh Tax Services Marlon Dream Arizona A Second The Duck Store Noble Coffee Roasting Eric Weisinger Coming Brian and Lisa Dunagan Pam Leandro Notch Jeffrey Weissler See website Eagle’s Nest Outfitters Ashley Nunes Tim Williams for film info Marla Estes Maylee Oddo Todd Wilson Ben Feinberg Karin Onkka Christi Wruck Jack Feinberg Oregon Shakespeare Festival Jayson Wynkoop Rachel Feinberg Jill and Eddie Orschel Awna Zegzdryn Theater 2 is Lee Fuchsman Jamey Osborn Yotopia not wheelchair Rocky Garrotto Paddington Station Jeff and Michelle Zundel accessible

PAGE 92 PAGE 93 SCHEDULE SCHEDULE FRIDAY 4/10/15 SATURDAY 4/11/15 VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats 161 seats

9:30am | Doc | 9:50am | Doc | 10:10am | Docs | 9:40am | Doc | 10am | Feature | 9:30am | Doc | 10:10am | Shorts | 10am | Panel | 9:30am | Doc | 9:50am | Docs | 10:10am | 9:40am | 10am | Doc | 9:30am | Shorts 10:10am | Shorts 10am | Panel | 83 min 80 min 78 min 78 min 94 min 75 min 47 min 90 min 98 min 74 min Feature | 89 min Feature | 90 min 71 min & Docs | 81 min & Docs | 41 min 90 min 9am 9am FRAME BY Madina’s How to Smell KASAMAYAKI The Well When Giants Family Shorts Filmmaker 3 1/2 Minutes Short Docs Echo Park Proud Citizen BARGE Oscar Shorts 1 Locals Only 1 Filmmaker FRAME Dream a Rose: A (Made in Fall TalkBack: Launch Awards Talkback: Visit with Ricky Kasama) Sneak Preview Casting the Subject Matters Leacock in Location Ashland Springs Normandy Ashland Springs Hotel Cailleach Hotel 12pm | Doc | 12:20pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | Shorts | 1-3pm | 98 min 86 min Feature | 89 min Feature | 90 min Feature | 85 min 87 min 47 min Workshop | 12pm | Doc | 12:20pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 83 min 93 min Doc | 86 min Feature & Short | Feature | 94 min 102 min Shorts | 47 min 12pm 120 min

3 1/2 Minutes T-Rex Echo Park Proud Citizen Lake Los James Baldwin: Family Shorts 12pm 94 min Angeles The Price of the Rebel Heart FRAME BY Western Welcome to The Well The Hunting Family Shorts Christmas, Ticket Filmmaking FRAME Leith Ground Workshop Again Sneak Preview DMC/SOU Marathon

3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Feature | 3:40pm | Shorts | 3:10pm | Doc | 3:30pm | Doc | 3pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Shorts 3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Docs | 3:10pm | Doc | 3:30pm | 3pm | Docs | 3:40pm | Feature | 98 min 84 min 79 min 78 min 79 min 90 min & Docs | 41 min 102 min 80 min 78 min 70 min Feature | 85 min 96 min 93 min 3pm 3pm Cartel Land Slow West Animation KASAMAYAKI Florence, Holbrook/ Locals Only 1 Listen to Me Madina’s How to Smell -1287 Lake Los Oscar Shorts 2 Song of the Sea Shorts (Made in Arizona Twain: Marlon Dream a Rose: A Angeles Kasama) An American Visit with Ricky Odyssey Leacock in Normandy Cailleach

6pm | Doc | 6:20pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Shorts | 6:10pm | Doc | 6:30pm | Doc | 6pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Feature | 6pm | Doc | 6:20pm | Feature | 6:40pm | Shorts | 6:10pm | Doc | 6:30pm | Doc | 6pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Doc | 102 min 93 min 80 min 70 min 71 min 94 min 93 min 87 min 87 min 79 min 78 min 79 min 87 min 90 min 6pm 6pm Listen to Me Western Short Stories -1287 BARGE Hot Type: 150 Song of the In Football Imperial Animation KASAMAYAKI Florence, Back on Locals Only: Marlon Years of the Sea We Trust Dreams Shorts (Made in Arizona Board: Greg A RIver Nation Kasama) Louganis Between Us

9pm | Feature | 9:20pm | Feature | 9:40pm | Doc | 9:10pm | Feature 9:30pm | Shorts 9pm | Doc | 9:40pm | Shorts 9pm | Doc | 9:20pm | 9:40pm | Feature | 9:10pm | Feature 9:30pm | Shorts & 9pm | Doc | 104 min 87 min 86 min & Short | 94 min & Docs | 87 min 132 min & Docs | 46 min 98 min Feature | 84 min 111 min & Short | 94 min Docs | 87 min 84 min 9pm 9pm Wildlike Imperial Welcome to Christmas, After Hours: Kurt Cobain: Locals Only 2 Cartel Land Slow West Man From Christmas, After Hours: Sound of Dreams Leith Again Shorts & Docs Montage of Launch College Reno Again Shorts & Docs Redemption: Marathon Mature Heck Award Marathon Mature The Frank audiences audiences Morgan Story

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PAGE 94 PAGE 95 SCHEDULE SCHEDULE SUNDAY 4/12/15 MONDAY 4/13/15 VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats 161 seats

9:30am | Doc | 9:50am | Docs | 10:10am | 9:40am | Feature 10am | Feature | 9:30am | Doc | 10:10am | 10am | Panel | 9:30am | Feature 9:50am | Feature | 10:10am 9:40am | Doc | 10am | Doc | 87 min 86 min Shorts | 80 min & Short | 94 min 94 min 72 min Shorts | 47 min 90 min 87 min 70 min 79 min 9am 9am Audience TBA 1 In Football T-Rex Short Stories Christmas, The Well Tocando la Luz Family Shorts Filmmaker Award: Best Imperial -1287 Florence, We Trust Again (Touch the TalkBack: Feature Dreams Arizona Marathon Light) Picture Diversity Ashland Springs Hotel

12pm | Doc 12:20pm | 12:40pm 12:10pm | 12:30pm | 12pm | Feature | 12:20pm | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | Doc | 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | Feature | 84 min Feature | 90 min Feature | 94 min 104 min Feature | 87 min Feature | 89 min Doc | 70 min 71 min 87 min Feature | 93 min Juried Award: TBA 2 12pm

12pm Best Song of the Sea Slow West Proud Citizen The Well Wildlike Imperial Echo Park -1287 BARGE Batkid Begins: Documentary Dreams The Wish Heard Around the World

3pm | Shorts & 3:20pm 3:40pm | Feature | 3:10pm | 3:30pm | Doc | 3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Doc | 3:10pm | Feature | 3:30pm | Feature | Docs | 46 min 111 min Feature & Short | 71 min 102 min 93 min 86 min 90 min 85 min 3pm Juried & 3pm Locals Only 2 Audience Award Man From 94 min BARGE Listen to Me Western Welcome to Proud Citizen Lake Los Winning Shorts Reno Christmas, Marlon Leith Angeles & Short Docs Again Marathon

6pm | Doc | 6:20pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Shorts | 6:10pm | Doc | 6:30pm | Doc | 7:30-11pm | 6pm | Feature 6:20pm | Docs | 6:40pm 6:10pm | 6:30pm | Feature | 98 min 80 min 79 min 70 min 79 min Party Juried Award: 74 min Feature | 90 min 85 min

6pm 6pm TBA 3 Cartel Land Madina’s Animation -1287 Florence, Awards Best Feature Short Docs Proud Citizen Lake Los Dream Shorts Arizona Celebration Angeles Armory

9pm | Doc | 9:20pm | Docs | 9:40pm | 9:10pm | Doc | 9:30pm | Shorts & 9pm | Doc 9:20pm | Doc | 9:40pm | 9:10pm | Doc | 9:30pm | Shorts 83 min 74 min Feature | 90 min 78 min Docs | 87 min 86 min Feature | 90 min 78 min & Docs | 87 min

9pm 9pm Audience FRAME BY Short Docs Is This The KASAMAYAKI After Hours: Award: Best T-Rex Is This The KASAMAYAKI After Hours: FRAME Real World (Made in Shorts & Docs Documentary Real World (Made in Shorts & Docs Kasama) Mature Kasama) Mature audiences audiences

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PAGE 96 PAGE 97 FILM INDEX -1287...... 30 Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation...... 37 Pop-Up Porno: m4m...... 56 3 1/2 Minutes...... 30 Hotel 22...... 53 Proud Citizen...... 65 365 ��������������������������������������������������������������� 70. How to Smell a Rose: A Visit The Reaper...... 56 Anatole’s Little Saucepan...... 70 with Ricky Leacock in Normandy...... 37 Reel Smith...... 56 As Apple Pie...... 23 The Hunting Ground...... 38 A River Between Us...... 24 Aubade...... 71 I’m Not Jessica...... 23 Russian Roulette...... 79 AYA...... 71 Imperial Dreams...... 61 Ryan Reid...... 22 Back on Board: Greg Louganis...... 31 In Football We Trust...... 38 The Shirley Temple...... 79 The Bad Boy of Bowling...... 50 In the Still of the Night...... 75 A Single Life...... 80 Baghdad Messi...... 72 Iris ...... 39 SKUNK...... 80 BARGE...... 33 Is This The Real World...... 61 Slow West...... 65 Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard James Baldwin: The Price Song of the Sea...... 66 Around the World...... 33 of the Ticket...... 39 Sound of Redemption: The Frank Best Sound...... 50 JamQwest...... 22 Morgan Story...... 45 The Bigger Picture...... 72 Joanna...... 54 Sticky Note Revolution...... 22 Birthday...... 73 KASAMAYAKI (Made in Kasama)...... 41 Stop...... 80 Boxeadora...... 51 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck...... 41 T-Rex...... 46 Cailleach...... 51 Lake Los Angeles...... 63 Through The Hawthorn...... 81 Cartel Land...... 34 Listen to Me Marlon...... 43 Timber...... 81 Christmas, Again...... 59 Little Houses...... 22 Tocando la Luz (Touch the Light)...... 45 COWS (Moosic Video)...... 73 Lost/Forgotten...... 23 unmappable...... 57 Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1...... 52 Madina’s Dream...... 43 VISION: Healing the Blind Crooked Candy...... 52 Man From Reno...... 63 in Ethiopia...... 23 The Dam Keeper...... 74 Marathon...... 75 We Can’t Live Without Cosmos...... 81 Dragons on Wheels...... 22 Me and My Moulton...... 77 Welcome to Leith...... 46 Echo Park...... 59 My Own Personal Moose...... 77 The Well...... 67 Fill My Mirrors...... 23 My Town...... 22 Western...... 47 Florence, Arizona...... 34 One Year Lease...... 54 When Giants Fall...... 47 Footprints...... 74 Our Curse...... 55 White Earth...... 57 FRAME BY FRAME...... 35 Passage IIIIO...... 22 Wildlike...... 67 Free Fall...... 22 Pet Therapy...... 23 WIND...... 83 Getting Ready...... 22 Pik-Pik-Pik...... 77 The Wizard and the Non-Believer...... 22 Graminoids...... 53 Pink Grapefruit...... 79 The Wound...... 83 Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey...35 Pop-Up Porno: f4m...... 55 Zebra...... 83

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