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Welcome to the 7th Annual Boulder International Film Festival, a non-profit community festival staffed almost entirely by energized volunteers and voted “one of the coolest film festivals in the world” byMovieMaker magazine.

That’s because of you, the huge, film-hip, Boulder audiences who show up by the thousands to be a part of the big world of ideas and passions that are light- years beyond the normal muck of American mass corporate media.

This year’s BIFF will honor one of the greatest, most thought-provoking film directors of our time—three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July). Mr. Stone will receive BIFF’s Master of Cinema Award and sit down for an in-depth interview and retrospective of his films at the Closing Night ceremonies on Sunday night.

Last year, BIFF welcomed Alec Baldwin just weeks before he co-hosted the 2010 Academy Awards. Continuing that tradition, we are excited to present voteWhat rocks you at BIFF? 2011’s Oscar co-host, movie mega-star James Franco (the Spider-Man trilogy, Get a ballot on your way in to Milk, Howl, 127 Hours) for an evening retrospective of his films. - each program. Take 10 sec BIFF is happy to welcome back Oscar-nominated producer Don Hahn (Beauty onds to vote. Hand it back on and the Beast, The Lion King) who will present his touching new film,Hand your way out. Easy! Bribes not Held. Mr. Hahn will also be a moderator of honor for a reprise of one of the accepted. Winners announced | 3 biggest hits of last year’s BIFF, the pioneering Digital Media Convergence closing night. Symposium (DiMe), a gathering of the cream of the world’s digital media and animation explosion. people’s choice

We are so proud this year to introduce one of the founding heroes of the awards American Civil Rights movement, Congressman John Lewis, who will appear with the powerful new documentary Freedom Riders. As an original Freedom Rider, Lewis endured mobs, beatings and arrests as he traveled on bus rides across the Deep South to fight Jim Crow laws and end segregated interstate bus travel. inside

Once again, BIFF will present our Call 2 Action for films about injustice and outrage that spark audience members to want to learn how to be a part of the tickets ...... 7 solution. New this year will be our special Call 2 Action tent on the Pearl Street venues/map...... 6 Mall where filmmakers and audience members can extend the discussion about specific courses of action. events/parties...... 8-9 schedule grid...... 50-51 As always, thanks to our brilliant cadre of community volunteers and our new and loyal sponsors. We couldn’t do it without them. film synopses...... 12-37 call 2 action...... 22 See you at the movies! people/staff etc...... 42 DiMe symposium...... 16 Robin Beeck, Executive Director Kathy Beeck, Festival Director grantors generous support provided by the following granting organizations

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Please note the program numbers of your chosen films and events before you get online or call for tickets – you will need these to complete your order. > online: > phone: > in person: www.biff1.com 303.786.7030 Boulder Theater Box Office www.bouldertheater.com Or at the door 30’ before start time Purchase in advance Purchase day of show picking up your tickets Advance tickets for all BIFF programs, Tickets can be purchased from the Boulder Boulder Theater: Advance purchase tickets workshops and events must be purchased Theater online and over the phone until 90 for this venue are available for pickup through the Boulder Theater Box Office minutes before the program begins. Tickets anytime that the Boulder Theater box office online, over the phone or in person. may also be purchased the day of the event is open. at the program venue 30 minutes before Print your ticket at home (or at work) and start time. skip the box office lines! Tickets sold out online? Boulder Library/ First United Methodist Church Advance purchase tickets for these Rush tickets may be available for purchase (FUMC) : venues will be available for pickup at the at the program venue 10 minutes prior to Boulder Theater anytime up to ONE HOUR showtime. Rush on over to find out!! TER box office BOULDER THEA before the program begins. For pickup less 2032 14th Street than an hour before your program begins, tickets will be available for pickup at the Boulder, Colorado 80302 venue in which the program is being held. al hours boxofficebox office festiv 3:00pm - 9:00pm Thursday, Feb. 17 For questions, call 303.449.2289 regular hours 9:30am - 10:30pm Friday, Feb. 18 i Or stop by the BIFF Information Tent on the Monday - Friday: 3:00pm - 7:00pm 9:30am - 9:00pm Saturday, Feb. 19 Pearl Street Mall at 14th and Pearl streets. Saturday: 12:00pm - 5:00pm 9:30am - 9:00pm Festival hours: Sunday, Feb. 20 Thursday, Feb. 17: 1:00pm - 7:00 pm Friday, Feb. 18: 9:30am - 8:30pm Saturday, Feb. 19: 9:30am - 8:30pm Sunday, Feb. 20: 9:30am - 6:00pm THE BIFF VIP PASS For the ultimate film lover who wants guaranteed VIP PASS GOOD TO KNOWS entrance to all BIFF film programs*, public parties and events—and wants to walk right past the line. u Passes are non-transferable. Sorry, no sharing. u Photo ID required for entry. VIP pass includes: The Opening Night Gala and film event, the BIFF u Passholders must arrive for programs at least Filmmaker Party, a Conversation with James Franco, 15 minutes prior to the start of the film to guarantee entrance. workshops and the Closing Night Awards and Tribute to Oliver Stone. u Pass available for pickup ONLY at BIFF registration at the St Julien starting on *DiMe (Digital Media Convergence Symposium) events Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 10:00am. at the St Julien are not included. 67 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com tickets at 303.786.7030, biff1.com or www.bouldertheater.com biff1.com | 7 special event a program 1 opening public night filmmaker red carpet gala party Friday, February 18 Thursday, February 17 7:00-9:00pm 6:30pm Lazy Dog Lounge Boulder Theater 1346 Pearl St. $45 $18/$20 door Free for Passholders Free for Passholders Doors open at 6:30pm / Tickets available at Boulder Theater or 6:15pm for Passholders at the door with cash or check Music 6:30pm–8:00pm Film begins at 8:00pm One of the hottest parties of the year. Rub egos with filmmakers Appetizers by Big Red F Restaurant Group and film lovers alike, and meet party Chocolates by Seth Ellis Chocolatier the provocative artists behind the Drinks available for purchase films.E njoy the Lazy Dog’s tasty Specially priced wines by appetizers and perfectly bal- central Francis Ford Coppola Winery anced, hand-crafted beers, along Music by Cool Shooz with memorable and unique Francis Ford Coppola Winery wines from Francis Ford the official wine sponsor of biff Coppola Winery. Come walk the red carpet and help kick off this year’s festival while you take a trip back to the ’70s with our Opening Night Film Troubadours. Enjoy delicious Keen Footwear appetizers from Jax Fish House, Centro Latin Kitchen & Refreshment Palace, Happy, Zolo Southwestern Grill and The happy hours West End Tavern, courtesy of Big Red Friday, February 18 and F Restaurant Group, one of our hottest Saturday, February 19 4:00-6:00pm new sponsors. The evening also features Lazy Dog Lounge wine by the story-telling master himself, 1346 Pearl St. Francis Ford Coppola, who is providing Free drinks and the official wine of the festival.S eth appetizers with your Ellis Chocolatier returns to tantalize your BIFF ticket stub or Pass taste buds with a variety of mouth- watering chocolates. And Boulder’s KEEN Footwear wants to buy you a award-winning a cappella group Cool drink! Come check out their latest Shooz will keep you entertained. styles in active footwear. Enjoy a pint, some Francis Ford Coppola Glam it up! Black tie optional. wines and delicious appetizers from the Lazy Dog Lounge. See page 13 for more information>> Thanks also to KEEN for supporting a BIFF Filmmaker through a $3,000 KEEN HybridLife Filmmakers Grant!

89 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com program 39 vip closing filmmaker night reception with Saturday, February 19 4:00-6:00pm Ted’s Montana Grill 1701 Pearl St. oliver stone Passholders only Lights, camera, action! Ted’s Montana Grill is ready to make its debut appearance Sunday, February 20 at BIFF. Fresh, hand-prepared 7:00pm appetizers and delicious bever- Boulder Theater tribute ages, including wines from the $60 Francis Ford Coppola Winery, Free for Passholders & awards ceremony will be served. At Ted’s, authen- The Boulder International Film Festival is honored tic is something you’ll experi- to present Oliver Stone with our “Master of Cin- ence, but it’s also something Doors open at 7:00pm you’ll taste. 6:45 for Passholders ema” award for his decades-long achievements Bring your pass and stop by Awards Ceremony 8:30pm in writing, directing and producing. early as space is limited. Tribute/Award to Oliver Stone to follow The evening begins with a reception featuring great music by roots rock trio Something Later with Appetizers by Whole Foods Market Underground, tasty appetizers for carnivores, ® ® Luna Bar & LUNAFEST Drinks available for purchase herbivores and cine-vores from Whole Foods Music by Something Underground Market, desserts by Cheesecake Factory, and specially priced wines from Francis Ford Coppola celebrate Desserts by Cheesecake Factory Winery. We will then honor the Best of the Fest Tea by Bhakti Chai women with their Vielehr sculptures at the BIFF French-press coffee by OZO in film Awards Ceremony. Saturday, February 19 The closing night tribute will include a spe- 7:00–9:00pm Ten20 Spa cial film retrospective ofS tone’s powerful and 2005 Pearl St. thought-provoking work followed by a presenta- Free with BIFF ticket stub or Pass tion of the award, an interview by BIFF Executive Producer of Special Events, Ron Bostwick, and Meet BIFF and LUNAFEST Film- makers Jisoo Kim (Thembi’s Diary) an audience Q&A session. and Jen McGowen (Touch). Enjoy See page 37 for more closing night details>> wine and desserts, plus free polish changes and brow waxing (on a first- come, first-served basis).

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special event b workshop: make your own short film Saturday, February 19 filmmaker panel 10:00am–12:00pm Saturday, February 19 Mighty Fudge Studios 3:00pm–4:15pm 1017 Pearl St. Boulder Public Library $25/35 door 1000 Canyon Blvd. Free to the public Do you have a story to tell? Do you want it to look better than The tradition continues. a home movie? This two-hour Please join us as we assemble workshop will help you through a smorgasbord of visiting film- the key steps towards more effec- makers, line them up, turn tive storytelling on video. There on their microphones and let workshop: will be a practical demonstration the chips fall where they may. animation station with camera and lights, as well as This fast-paced, often hilari- | 11 a description and discussion of ous survey of a cross-section of Sunday, February 20 key steps to an effective produc- our visiting filmmakers covers 10:00am–12:00pm Mighty Fudge Studios tion. The concept. The planning. every topic under the sun, and 1017 Pearl St. The shoot. The edit. And the final includes your vital questions show. This workshop will cover Students only 13 to 18 and comments. Always memo- Free what you need to know. If BIFF rable, ever-unpredictable, this Space limited, get tthere early! has inspired you to make your event is a highlight of the Animation is both a science and an mark, this is the class for you. BIFF experience. Come and art form, from the two-dimensional Sponsored by join the fun! drawings of Looney Tunes to the com- Boulder Digital Arts puter-animated process of Tron. Take bda.com an exciting journey into the basics of animation with this two-hour work- shop. You will learn the steps of how animated movies are made and work toward creating an animated short that will be screened on YouTube.

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troubadours 12 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com glamitup blacktieoptional take a trip down the red carpet to the 70s eat dance sing program 2 Thursday, February 17 Thursday, 4:00pm, First United Methodist Church Boulder Theater When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun USA, Feature Documentary, 2010, 113 min Reception 6:30-8:00pm Film 8:00pm The Chinese Government threatened reprisals against Iceland Q&A to follow before this film’s initial screening at the Reykjavik Film Festival. The film drew thousands of people at five sold-out Appetizers by Big Red F Restaurant Group screenings. Chocolates by Seth Ellis Chocolatier Featuring His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and Richard Gere Original film score by Phillip Glass Drinks available for purchase This amazing and beautiful film has been packing houses at Specially priced wines by film festivals all over the world. It begins in the early 600s, when Francis Ford Coppola Winery Emperor Songtsän Gampo brought Buddhism to Tibet, wrote Music by Cool Shooz a new constitution freeing his people and built the temple at Lhasa. Continuing an unbroken, 1,400-year-old lineage, his di- | 13 rect descendant, 12-year-old Lhagyari Wangchuk, was crowned program 1 King of Tibet by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in June 2004 in Dharamsala, India. Filmmaker Dirk Simon was invited to Troubadours this incredible ceremony. Not content with just showing Tibet’s USA, Feature Documentary, 2011, 90 min past though, Simon began a six-year effort to film Tibetans’ present and likely future as well. During this film, the Dalai Direct to BIFF from the Sundance Film Festival Lama acknowledged for the first time the failure of his Middle Way Policy—a compromise on Tibet’s independence—leaving In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, The Troubadour Club Tibetans torn between their religious beliefs and their desire to in L.A. launched the performing careers of some of free their homeland. The Dalai Lama issued an unprecedented the best singer-songwriters of their generation— and call for a special meeting of 500 Tibetan leaders from all over perhaps any generation. Carole King and James Taylor, the world to lead a way to reunite all Tibetans behind one goal. who form the core of this film, as well as Jackson Directed by Dirk Simon call Browne, Joni Mitchell, Steve Martin, David Crosby, Kris Boulder Premiere 2 Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, the Eagles and many others Jeff Pointer, Chad Herschberger and action made their debut at the Troubadour. Elton John made Dave Krahling in person Introduced by his first appearance in America to a small audience Nawang Kechog on a Wednesday, but by Saturday night (“alright for fighting”) the place was packed. Using rare, never-be- fore-seen archival footage of legendary performances, pre-show music along with interviews with a host of the greatest names by Grammy-nominated Tibetan in American music, Morgan Neville has created an composer Nawang Khechog, who astounding music-documentary classic. just completed his new album “Tibetan Dream Journey” and his Directed by Morgan Neville first book Awakening Kindness. Colorado Premiere ours Morgan Neville in person nawang khechog 12 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com friday>>

program 3 program 4 Friday, 10:00am, Boulder Theater Friday, 12:00pm, Boulder Theater Mother: Caring Our Way Out of the The First Grader Population Dilemma United Kingdom, Feature Film, 2010, 103 min USA, Feature Documentary, 2011, 75 min People’s Choice Award Runner-Up at the Toronto Film Festival Mother breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that Closing Night Film at the 2011 Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival lurks silently as the root cause of our planet’s largest environmen- When the Kenyan government declared free public education tal, humanitarian and social crises—population growth. Since the for all in 2002, 84-year-old tribesman Kimani Maruge–who 1960s, the world population has nearly doubled, adding more than wants, finally, to learn to read–shows up at a schoolhouse door three billion people. At the same time, talking about population has in the remote Kenyan bush. Fierce opposition develops, but the become politically incorrect because of the sensitivity of issues sur- school has no legal choice but to accept him. Maruge takes rounding the topic—religion, economics, family planning and gender his place, sitting among enthusiastic 6-year-olds who are a inequality. This film introduces Boulder resident Beth Osnes, a little frightened of him at first, but soon realize that they have mother, child-rights activist and the last sibling of a family of 12, as a new wise, funny and very tall friend. They learn that Maruge she helps us navigate the thorny complexities of the population issue was a famous warrior in the Mau Mau Uprising, Kenya’s war and highlights a different path to solve it. of independence from colonial rule in the 1950s, and they discover how inspiring history can be when told by someone Directed and produced by Christophe Fauchere who actually had a role in the founding of their country. This Produced by Joyce Johnson beautiful, unforgettable film tells Maruge’s true, sometimes World Premiere shocking story through flashbacks, and we see why school Christophe Fauchere, Joyce Johnson and Beth Osnes in person officials had no chance against this traditional warrior’s quiet Co-presented by charm and, well, ferocity of purpose. Maruge is a Mau Mau call2 Boulder Valley Women’s Health Center after all. Subtitled action Introduced by Beth Osnes, Ph.D., From National Geographic Entertainment Co-founder, Mothers Acting Up Directed by Justin Chadwick boulderwomenshealth.org Colorado Premiere mothersactingup.org Co-presented by director in person call2 Boulder Reads! action Introduced by Therese Thompson, Executive Director, Girls Education International girlsed.org boulderreads.org

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program 5 Friday, 2:30pm, Boulder Theater Waste Land Brazil/United Kingdom, Feature Documentary, 2010, 98 min On the 2011 Academy Awards short list Winner of an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival

Waste Land is a stunning marriage of great art, trash and the charming, funny, wildly-dressed catadores (pickers) in the world’s largest garbage dump—home to 4,000 people—near Rio de Janeiro. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz confronts the extreme poverty of his childhood in Brazil by planning an audacious new art series and hiring catadores and their recycled objects to pose as photographic subjects that will mimic such classic paintings as “The Death of Marat” by David. Originally intended as a simple retrospective of Muniz’s career, director Lucy Walker (Blindsight) transforms this film into a brilliant, sprawling epic of dignity, despair and the power of art to inspire people to re-imagine their lives. Subtitled Directed by Lucy Walker Boulder Premiere

Co-presented by call2 Kate Bailey, Ecocycle action Introduced by Marda Kirn, Founder, Executive Director, EcoArts Connection ecoartsonline.org ecocycle.org

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1:00–6:00 pm thanks to our premier sponsor St. Julien Hotel & Spa, 900 Walnut St. Tickets $50/$65 door on sale now Students $40/$65 door dimeboulder.com Passholders: Please note that the DiMe is NOT included in the BIFF all-access pass. Passholders must purchase a separate ticket to attend the DiMe.

Colorado’s second annual Digital Media Symposium is a collaboration among the State of Colorado’s Creative Industries Division, the Boulder Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Boulder International Film Festival.

The DiMe is Colorado’s premier entertainment-based digital media meet-up, bringing together national and local visionary leaders in the film, media and gaming industries to discuss the potential for 16 | collaboration as well as the evolution of new technology.

Boulder Convention Panel I Digital Distribution and Monetization and Visitors Bureau Where is innovation in entertainment headed in 2011? If there’s a screen of any size, these speakers will find a way to get content on it.

Shira Lazar panelist, Disrupt/Group, web personality, tech expert and webisode producer, L.A. Peter Roberts panelist, Starz!Digital, VP Digital Development, Denver David Slayden moderator, Boulder Digital Works Executive Director, digital innovator, Boulder Andrew Steele panelist, Funny or Die, Emmy award-winning writer for Saturday Night Live, cable and the web, L.A. Ann VanOrsdel panelist, The 1st Movement, President, national digital strategy ad agency, Denver

Panel II The Future of 3D In 2011 3D is going from gimmick to gold. Catch a sneak peek at what the brightest national and local minds in digital entertainment are doing.

Joshua Greer panelist, RealD, Co-Founder, award-winning 3D technology, Boulder Mark Lyons panelist, Idol Minds, President, 3D game design, Louisville Don Hahn moderator and special adviser to the DiMe, Disney, animated and 3D film producer (Beauty & the Beast, The Lion King), L.A. Kurt Hall panelist, National CineMedia, 3D innovation, Denver

Reception to follow. Hors d’oeuvres. Cash bar. Live digital music by Colin Bricker. Be a change-maker. Attend DiMe. february 18, 2011 boulder co st julien hotel & spa

program 6 Friday, 5:00pm, Boulder Theater shorts program one Also showing in Program 30, Sat., Feb 19, 10:30 Boulder Public Library

Touch Pigeon: Impossible Careful With That Power Tool USA, Short Film, 2009, 11 min USA, Short Animation, 2009, 6 min New Zealand, Short Film, 2009, 2 min An ode to city life, Touch explores themes Walter is a rather suave if initially incompe- Winner of Best of SIFF (Seattle International of isolation and the universal need for love tent secret agent with the sort of briefcase Film Festival) when two strangers make the most impor- that can destroy continents. When his A young boy discovers the fun of power tant connection of their lives while waiting war machinery is requisitioned by a feral tools. for a train. pigeon, he sets about the task of retriev- Directed by Jason Stutter (Careful With That Directed by Jen McGowan ing said briefcase from a bird unlikely to Crossbow) Jen McGowan in person be dissuaded from worldwide mayhem by Boulder Premiere | 17 anything other than a bagel. Directed by Lucas Martell Miracle Lady Boulder Premiere These films come to BIFF from our Israel, Short Animation, 2009, 10 min partner Festival, LUNAFEST - short This puppet animation film tells the story Glenn Owen Dodds films by, for and about women. Australia, Short Film, 2010, 17 min of two elderly women who spend their days Visit lunafest.org. waiting. An old, forgotten miracle that hap- Winner of the International Prix Canal+ pened a long time ago changes their fates. Award, Clermont-Ferrand Directed by Moran Somer and Michel Abulafia Michael Radcliffe was catching the morning bus, like he does every day of his everyday Shotgun life. He didn’t expect to have a five-minute USA, Short Film, 2009, 6 min sit-down with God, Glenn Owen Dodds that is, a mysterious man who claims to be God. Three men test the limits of friendship and Could he really be God? He seems to know contemplate morality in this humorous take an awful lot about Radcliffe. But what kind on “all in a day’s work.” of God looks like a hapless con man with Directed by Russ Lamoureux a frightful filing system? Then again, how Boulder Premiere does Glenn Owen Dodds know the meaning of life? ® delivers special Roar Directed by Frazer Bailey got a smart phone? UK, Short Film, 2009, 16 min Boulder Premiere get the latest scoop during BIFF This spine-chilling piece of drama and This year, BIFF’s official T-shirt sup-

suspense is about a lonely Londoner plier AnvilOrganic ™ app to your Smart Phone, whose gesture of goodwill is rejected by a content to you via the QR Code pretty girl. printed on our T-shirts. Download the Shirt Scan Directed by Adam Wimpenny scan the code and keep up with Boulder Premiere breaking news during the Festival. This here’sQR code> a Special videos, photos and articles – all yours! Stay in the know! they will never be able to go home again

program 7 program 8 Friday, 7:15pm, Boulder Theater Friday, 9:30pm, Boulder Theater The Green Wave The Last Circus Germany, Feature Documentary, 2010, 80 min Spain, Feature Film, 2010, 107 min

Direct to Boulder from the Sundance Film Festival Winner of the Silver Lion at the From the start, one thing was clear to these courageous Iranian Venice Film Festival filmmakers: for participating in this film, they will never be able to go home again. An anatomy of modern political rebellion, In this brilliant, comedic tale of horror, two clowns, this history-making documentary integrates animation with Sergio and Javier, whose degenerating psyches can live-action footage. It incorporates thousands of blog entries, no longer be hidden by makeup, bloody themselves Facebook posts, Twitter messages and Internet videos from over the love of Natalia, a beautiful, seductive, a new generation of Iranians to show the developing ground- masochistic acrobat. Director de la Iglesia stages swell—the Green Wave—of opposition to the ultra-right the plot—a metaphor of the brutal Spanish Civil government of Iran. The Green Wave’s candidate, Mir Hossein War with Natalia as Spain, Sergio as the Fascists Mousavi, was ahead in the polls immediately before the elec- and Javier as the common man—with increasingly tion and was surprisingly defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, horrific and nightmarish scenes towards a glorious, prompting widespread allegations of voter fraud and months of monumental finale of eye-popping absurdity. Sadly, demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people. The gov- the real Spanish Civil War was so grotesque, grue- ernment, in a humiliating reversal of Iranian custom, forced some and cruel that this mind-bending film seems the military and police to respond with a devastating backlash like a Disney flick in comparison to the real thing. To of brutal violence against their own people. All of this is docu- make matters worse, the bad guy won. Subtitled mented, of course, by video and cellphone cameras and shown in this film. Says director Ali Samadi Ahadi, “It’s only a matter Directed by Álex de la Iglesia of time before this revolution will roll over Iran once more.” Colorado Premiere Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi Pre-release screening from Magnolia Pictures Colorado Premiere call act2ion

18 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com program 9 program 10 program 11 Friday, 10:00am Friday, 12:00pm Friday, 2:30pm, First United Methodist Church First United Methodist Church First United Methodist Church Crazy Wisdom The Flaw Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno USA/Tibet, Feature Documentary, 2011, 89 min UK, Feature Documentary, 2011, 80 min France, Feature Documentary, 2009, 95 min Buddhism permeates our popular culture: We speak Winner of Best Documentary at the São casually of good parking karma, Nirvana is a rock Direct to BIFF from the Sundance Paulo International Film Festival band, the Dalai Lama is one of the most-admired Film Festival people in the world and Tibetan Buddhism is From the director of “In 1964, legendary French doubling its numbers faster than any other religion In the Shadow of the Moon director Henri-Georges Clouzot in Australia and the U.S. A former monk, Chögyam began to film L’Enfer, an enig- Trungpa Rinpoche, who had renounced his vows, “I have found a flaw in the model matic and original project with eloped with a 16-year-old and embraced western that defines how the world works,” an unlimited budget; a film life, is recognized as the pivotal person to bring said former Federal Reserve which was meant to be the Buddhism to the west. He founded Naropa Uni- Chairman Alan Greenspan. “I was cinematographic event of the versity in Boulder, Colorado, as well as more than shocked.” The “flaw” Greenspan decade. However, after three 100 Shambhala Meditation Centers. Alan Ginsberg referred to in testimony before weeks into filming, the project considered Trungpa his guru, Joni Mitchell wrote a Congress in 2008 was the recent song about him and, 22 years after his death, his discovery that too much income is interrupted and the images, books continue to sell in the hundreds of thousands inequality in a society can lead to which were told to be ‘incred- each year. So why is he still called “the bad boy sudden economic collapse. In the ible,’ were lost. By chance, I of Buddhism?” Crazy Wisdom attempts to set the United States, we told those whose have recovered those images record straight. income had stagnated—half of that were forgotten for half Directed by Johanna Demetrakas the people in the U.S.—not to a century and they are more Colorado Premiere worry, just continue to consume as mind-blowing than the legend Johanna Demetrakas in person if your income was going up. But predicted.” Serge Bromberg, Director the only way to do that is through easy credit, which the U.S. financial Few films take us as deeply into the creative system provided with increas- process as Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno. ingly unwise gusto. With harrowing We watch as camera tests from the 1964 personal stories and innovative film L’Enfer evolve into fully realized scenes. Johanna Demetrakas animation, this brilliant, gripping Inspired by the kinetic and kaleidoscopic film—far beyond the rigid, enforced visuals that were emerging in art galler- ignorance of left-right politics—is ies, Clouzot sought to revolutionize film by the definitive account of the Great conveying one man’s descent from eroticism Recession. But have we learned and jealousy into madness. But the stress director in person anything at all? of his over-reaching ambition brought the Directed by David Sington production to an end. Had Clouzot struck too Colorado Premiere close to his own fragile sanity? Subtitled Directed by Serge Bromberg 18 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com | 19 earth will need hundreds of onkalos program 14 program 12 program 13 Friday, 9:15pm, First United Methodist Church Friday, 5:00pm Friday, 7:15pm, First United Methodist Church First United Methodist Church Punching the Clown Into Eternity USA, Feature Film, 2009, 91 min These Amazing Shadows Denmark, Feature Documentary, 2010, 75 min USA, Feature Documentary, 2011, 88 min Winner of an Audience Award at the “Poetic, hauntingly beautiful...” Tribeca Film Direct to BIFF from the Sundance Slamdance Film Festival Festival Film Festival “...the funniest movie ever made about try- Winner of the Audience Award at the ing to hold on to one’s artistic integrity in Copenhagen Documentary International Film an image-obsessed world.” Village Voice What do the filmsCasablanca , Blazing Festival Saddles, West Side Story and This Is Gigantic rock-crushing machines dig deeper and Spinal Tap have in common? They deeper into the dark. At a depth of five kilometers In this semi-autobiographical, awkwardly have been deemed “culturally, histori- they branch out to create a cavern so big that it funny film, singer-songwriter Henry Phillips cally or aesthetically significant” by won’t be completed for 120 years. This vast space plays a younger, less-successful version of the Library of Congress and listed will store spent uranium rods from nuclear power himself, leaving the flyover states to take a on the National Film Registry. These plants, material so dangerously radioactive that shot at the big time in Hollywood. This is a Amazing Shadows tells the history this cavern at Onkalo, Finland, must remain sealed story of contrasts: first between Henry— and importance of The Registry, a roll from living organisms for 100,000 years so as soft-spoken, likable, a big pushover, someone call of American cinema treasures not to render large areas uninhabitable. What will impossible not to root for—and his songs— that reflects the diversity of film humans be like in 100,000 years? How do we warn nasty, vicious, hysterically funny. Then there’s and, indeed, the American experi- them of the deadly waste we left behind? This mellow, innocent Henry vs. Hollywood, which ence itself. The current list of 525 enormous subterranean facility will only have the is portrayed here as preening, shallow, always films includes selections from every capacity to store the radioactive power-plant waste looking for somebody more interesting to talk genre—documentaries, home mov- from Finland itself. Over the next century, Earth will to besides you. This brilliant film is a wildy ies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, need hundreds of Onkalos. Wry and apolitical, this witty comedy of social faux pas and absurdist newsreels and silent films. This film film will simply leave you stunned.Subtitled situations observed through the eyes of a reveals how American movies tell us sweet, but totally unskeptical, deadpan hero. so much about ourselves—not just Directed and written by Michael Madsen what we did, but what we thought, Colorado Premiere Directed by Gregori Viens what we felt and what we aspired to. Written, produced, composed by and starring Henry Phillips Written, directed and produced by call 2ion Colorado Premiere Kurt Norton and Paul Mariano act Henry Phillips in person Colorado Premiere Kurt Norton in person Co-presented by Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center in person>>> Introduced by LeRoy Moore, Ph.D., Co-founder Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center rmpjc.org

2021 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com program 15 program 16 program 17 Friday, 2:00pm, Boulder Public Library Friday, 4:30pm, Boulder Public Library Friday, 6:30pm, Boulder Public Library Genius Within: Regretters Midnight Express The Inner Life of Glenn Gould Sweden, Feature Documentary, 2010, 60 min USA, Feature Film, 1978, 121 min USA, Feature Documentary, 2010, 106 min Winner of Best Documentary in Europe, Winner of nine Academy Awards, Prix Europe, Berlin On the Academy Awards short list including Best Picture “One of the most dazzling documentary An enigmatic musical poet—and the Oliver Stone won his first Oscar for this film for films in ages.” Swedish Public Radio most-documented classical musician of the Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay last century—world-renowned Canadian Many years ago two Swedish men went under the knife and became women, only pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate The most harrowing, viscerally compelling prison international audiences 26 years after his to realize that, for them, changing their sex was a big mistake. In this amazing movie of all time, Midnight Express is based on untimely death. Genius Within: The Inner the true story of American Billy Hayes, who is Life of Glenn Gould humanizes the legend, and beautiful portrait, the two men meet for the first time to talk about their lives. caught trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish weaving together an unprecedented array out of Turkey. He is told he will be released if of unseen footage, private home record- Flamboyant Orlando was one of the first people to go through the physical opera- he identifies his source. After fingering the taxi ings and diaries, as well as compelling driver who sold him the drugs, Hayes inexplicably interviews with Gould’s most intimate tion that turned him into a woman, and one of the very few people who also took makes his first big mistake—he tries to run friends and lovers. The result is a candid, away. Caught, he is sentenced to four years in an sometimes eye-opening exploration of the the journey back again. Michael, on the other hand, regretted his decision right unspeakably nightmarish Turkish prison, where incongruities between Gould’s private real- he is tortured and beaten repeatedly by the ity and his wider image. after his operation and is now longing to go back. The two meet on stage in a dark prison guards. Just 58 days before his release, Directed by Michèle Hozer & TV studio and discuss their subsequent Hayes is recharged with a much more serious Peter Raymont lives in a remarkable discourse on offense, drug trafficking. At his new sentencing Boulder Premiere repression, self-identity and the nature of hearing, he screams at the presiding judges, gender and being. Subtitled “For a nation of pigs, it sure seems funny that you don’t eat them!” That was his second big Directed by Marcus Lindeen mistake, because it netted him an additional Colorado Premiere 26 years. Preceded by: Directed by Alan Parker Hammerhead Screenplay by Oliver Stone U.K., Short Film, 2009, 15 min Oddball Boris tries to reunite his parents on a shark-spotting trip off the North Yorkshire coast. His biggest enemy, how- ever, is along for the ride—his mother’s girlfriend, Lilah. Directed by Samuel Donovan Colorado Premiere

2021 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com tickets at 303.786.7030, biff1.com or www.bouldertheater.com biff1.com | 21 For the second year, BIFF is featuring Call 2 Action, a program that offers concrete ways call for filmgoers to translate the energy and passion that film evokes into action. The follow- ing films and community groups are part of this program. The films below are also noted friday>> 2 in the program with the Call 2 Action logo. ion Go to biff1.com/call-to-action for specific and updated info on how to get involved. act Post-film discussions will be held for a number of programs at the Call 2 Action tent at 14th and Pearl streets and First United Methodist Church (FUMC). Our thanks to The Twisted Foundation, Philanthropiece, Mothers Acting Up and Sandy Younghans for spearheading this initiative and never doubting the power of film to change people’s lives.

1. When the Dragon Swallowed 5. Into Eternity | Program 13 9. For Once in My Life | Program 27 the Sun | Program 2 Friday, Feb. 18, 7:15pm, FUMC Saturday, Feb. 19, 5:00pm, FUMC Thursday, Feb. 17, 4:00pm, FUMC Co-presenter: Rocky Mountain Peace and Co-presenter: Goodwill Industries of Denver This amazing and beautiful film chronicles Justice Center Introduced by: Jesse Wolff, CEO, Goodwill filmmaker Dirk Simon’s six-year effort to film Introduced by: LeRoy Moore, Ph.D., Co- Industries of Denver Tibetans’ present and likely future. founder Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice goodwilldenver.org Center This astonishing and infectious film about 2. Mother: Caring Our Way Out rmpjc.org a 28-person band and chorus, the Spirit of of the Population Dilemma | Wry and political, this film explores the dark Goodwill, will grab you by the heart. Program 3 side of nuclear power: the storage of danger- ously radioactive nuclear waste and how it will Friday, Feb. 18, 10:00am, Boulder Theater 10. Hand Held | Program 28 affect generations to come. Co-presenter: Boulder Valley Women’s Saturday, Feb. 19, 7:15pm, FUMC >> Health Center Co-presenter: Don Hahn, filmmaker, friday 6. The Green Wave | Program 7 Michael Carroll, Romanian Children’s Relief Introduced by: Beth Osnes, Ph.D., Co-founder, Mothers Acting Up Friday, Feb. 18, 7:15pm, Boulder Theater Introduced by: Jenna Borys, Community boulderwomenshealth.org An anatomy of modern political rebellion, this Outreach Director, Boulder County AIDS Project history-making documentary shows how a new mothersactingup.org bcap.org generation of Iranians is using social media in Mother brings to light an issue that lurks Disney producer and director Don Hahn films a opposition to the ultra-right government of Iran. silently as the root cause of one of our planet’s photojournalist’s return to Romania, 20 years largest crises: population growth. after he photographed and videotaped the 7. The Last Lions | Program 18 suffering of children in Romanian orphanages Saturday, Feb. 19, 10:00am, Boulder Theater under a brutal Communist leader. 3. The First Grader | Program 4 Co-presenter: The Wild Foundation Friday, Feb. 18, 12:00pm, Boulder Theater Introduced by: Vance Martin, President, Co-presenter: Boulder Reads! 11. Freedom Riders | Program 36 The WILD Foundation Introduced by: Therese Thompson, Executive Sunday, Feb. 20, 2:30pm, Boulder Theater wild.org Director, Girls Education International Introduced by: Senator Mark Udall and The Last Lions is the spectacular product of Congressman Jared Polis girlsed.org seven years of daily tracking and filming of a boulderreads.org Special guest: Congressman John Lewis rarely witnessed pride of lions in Botswana. pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedom- When the Kenyan government declared free public education for all in 2002, an 84-year-old riders tribesman and former warrior shows up at a 8. Bag It! | Program 25 The Freedom Riders endured maniacal racism, schoolhouse to learn to read. Saturday, Feb. 19, 12:30pm, FUMC beatings, firebombs and mob violence. They Co-presenters: New Vista High School’s managed to bring the President and the entire American public face to face with the stark, 4. Waste Land | Program 5 Earth Task Force and Leigh Cushing, Campaigns Coordinator, Ecocycle irredeemable ugliness of institutional racism Friday, Feb. 18, 2:30pm, Boulder Theater in America. Co-presenter: Kate Bailey, Ecocycle Introduced by: Suzan Beraza, Director, Bag It! ecocycle.org Introduced by: Marda Kirn, Founder, Execu- earthtaskforce.com tive Director, EcoArts Connection On Earth, 500 billion plastic bags a year are ecoartsonline.org overflowing landfills, clogging rivers and creat- ecocycle.org ing vast wastelands of trash. Find out what you Waste Land is a stunning marriage of art, can do about it. Right now. trash and the charming catadores (pickers) in the world’s largest garbage dump near Rio de Janeiro.

22 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com >> saturday program 18 Saturday, 10:00am, Boulder Theater The Last Lions Botswana, Feature Documentary, 2010, 88 min For renowned naturalists Dereck and Beverly Joubert, The Last Lions is the spectacular product of seven years of daily tracking and filming the rarely witnessed Tsaro pride in the isolated marshes of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. With breathtaking cinematography, they tell the three-year saga of Ma di Tau (Mother of Lions) who, with her cubs, makes a perilous swimming escape from a forest fire to remote Duba Island. There she becomes part of the power dynamics on the island as she struggles with a competi- tive rival pride in a titanic primal bid to preserve the thing that matters most—the future of her bloodline, and of all lions in Africa, where the lion population has declined 96 percent in the last 50 years. Unlike elephants, lions have no protection under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Why? The safari hunting industry and pharmaceutical buyers in Asia are bitterly opposed to it because such a decree would limit what they can do with the trophies and body parts. The result? The King of Beasts will be extinct in the wild within 20 years. Co-presented by call The Wild Foundation 2 From National Geographic Entertainment action Introduced by Vance Martin, President Directed by Dereck and Beverly Joubert wild.org Narrated by Jeremy Irons Colorado Premiere

22 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com | 23 shorts program two program 19 Saturday, 12:30pm, Boulder Theater [Also showing in Program 33, Saturday, 7:00pm, Boulder Public Library]

The Unhappy Woman Eulogy Maker Under the Bed Norway, Short Film, 2009, 5 min USA, Short Film, 2010, 6 min USA, Short Animation, 2011, 3 min Winner of Best Short Short at the Aspen Shortsfest A short film about Elliot, a young country When you’re young, there’s a fine line An actress gets a little too much into her boy who gives eulogies for children’s beloved between fantasy and reality...especially at role when her director questions the perfor- pets. Saying goodbye to a pet isn’t easy for bedtime on a dark and stormy night. mance she’s been giving. a child, but sometimes it’s the only way to Directed by Pat Mallek Directed by Tomas Sem Løkke-Sørensen prepare for life’s inevitable losses. World Premiere Boulder Premiere Directed by Leslie Langee Pat Mallek in person Tomas Sem Løkke-Sørensen in person Colorado Premiere Leslie Langee in person

The Cage Romania/Netherlands, Short Film, 2010, 17 min Six Dollar Fifty Man New Zealand, Short Film, 2009, 15 min Winner of the Uppsala Grand Prix, Sweden On the 2011 Academy Awards short list “... a film you should try to catch...” Variety The Action Hero’s Guide Winner of Best Drama at the Aspen Shortsfest In this great little film, a young boy finds an to Saving Lives It’s hard to look after yourself on the play- injured pigeon and wants to keep it, but his USA, Short Film, 2009, 15 min ground when you’re different. Set in 1970s father refuses. With a perfectly judged pace When lives are on the line, when there’s New Zealand, this film follows Andy, a gutsy and tone, this is a beautifully simple tale of danger at every turn, when clichés run amuck, 8-year-old boy who lives in a make-believe a father’s love for his son. sometimes the best thing to do is call Mul- ligan. Ace Mulligan! No matter how villainous superhero world where his imagination Directed by Adrian Sitaru the madman, how numerous the henchmen, allows him to perform extraordinary physical Boulder Premiere how sexy the damsel, one thing is for sure: Ace feats to deal with playground bullies. But Mulligan will always come out on top. Some- when Andy gets in trouble with the head- Prayers for Peace times. Starring BIFF favorite Patrick Warburton master, he realizes that to save himself and USA, Animated Short Film, 2010, 8 min (Seinfeld, The Tick, Rules of Engagement). his only friend Mary, he must face up to the Winner of Animation Awards at 21 festivals Directed by Justin Lutsky real world. Boulder Premiere Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion Directed by Mark Albiston and Louis Sutherland animation about the artist’s younger brother, Boulder Premiere who was killed in Iraq. Much of the footage was borrowed directly from images off of the soldier’s laptop that was returned to the family. Directed by Dustin Grella Colorado Premiere

2425 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com program 20 Saturday, 2:45pm, Boulder Theater An African Election Switzerland/USA/Ghana, Feature Documentary, 2011, 90 min

Direct to BIFF from the Sundance Film Festival program 21 Jarreth Merz returns to Ghana, the country of his childhood, Saturday, 5:00pm, Boulder Theater and finds himself in the middle of a highly-spirited presidential Sarah’s Key campaign between Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party and France, Feature Film, 2010, 113 min Professor John Atta Mills from the National Democratic Congress. While the NPP hopes to retain its power and continue the economic A Special Presentation by growth it began, the NDC desperately needs to win. Ghana is one The Weinstein Company of the most stable countries in Africa, but it is still in the Third Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a 10-year old girl, is taken with her parents World and is eager to show a stable democracy to attract invest- by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families ments from abroad. The stakes are high, because each party wants in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, to control the future of huge oilfields discovered off the Ghanaian Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard–their secret hiding place– coast that promise great wealth for Ghana. This powerful film takes and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty us throughout the countryside interviewing the voters and, like a seven years later: Sarah’s story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, political thriller, follows the ups and downs of this rowdy election, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, perhaps the most important ever for western Africa. Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to Directed by Jarreth Merz questions about her own romantic future. Subtitled Colorado Premiere Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner Jarreth Merz in person Written by Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner Based on novel by Tatiana De Rosnay Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas Mélusine Mayance Niels Arestrup Frédéric Pierrot Michel Duchaussoy Dominique Frot Gisèle Casadesus Aidan Quinn Natasha Mashkevich director in person

Director Jarreth Merz

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2425 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com tickets at 303.786.7030, biff1.com or www.bouldertheater.com biff1.com | 25 program 22 Saturday, 7:30pm, Boulder Theater $30 / Free for Passholders a conversation with james franco

Short film directed by James Franco – The Clerk’s Tale James Franco grew up in Southern Retrospective of Franco’s work California. After one year at UCLA, Presentation of the BIFF Vanguard Award to his parents’ chagrin, he dropped out to become an actor. His breakout Interview with BIFF’s Executive Producer appearance was in the cult TV series of Special Events, Ron Bostwick Freaks and Geeks, but it was his Audience Q & A intense career-making performance in the TV biopic James Dean that earned Franco a Golden Globe award and propelled him to the cover of teen fan magazines everywhere. Franco’s next role would make his face and lop-sided smile familar to hundreds of millions of people throughout the world as Harry Osbourne in the Spider-Man Trilogy. His performance alongside Sean Penn in Milk won an Independent Spirit Award, and he earned a Golden Globe nomination for his role in Pineapple Express. A multiplatform-artist, Mr. Franco has also become an award- winning independent filmmaker, with his film The Feast of the Stephen winning the Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival. His latest project, The Clerks Tale, premiered at Cannes last May. Franco has starred as poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl, alongside Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love. His performance as one-armed climber Aron Ralston in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours has earned him Best Actor nominations from BAFTA, the Golden Globes, and the Academy Awards. The week after BIFF, Franco will co-host the 2011 Academy Awards. He plans to direct two feature films next year—an adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Ham On Rye and a biography on poet Hart Crane called The Broken Tower. ginsberg james dean aron ralston provocative evocative | 26 program 23 Saturday, 9:30pm, Boulder Theater The Edge Russia, Feature Film, 2010, 119 min

Nominated for a 2011 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film Russia’s nominee for the 2011 Academy Awards

The town in The Edge is not your normal filmic image of a 1940’s Stalinist labor camp; it’s a ramshackle logging town on the Trans- Siberian Railway inhabited by bawdy Russian and German prison- ers of both sexes whose passions include home-brewed booze and steam locomotive racing. But the delicate balance of power is threatened with the arrival of Ignat, a decorated soldier who chan- nels his push-it-to-the-limits energy into charming the ladies and staging a steam engine race with another driver, all in competition over a beautiful woman. Such unruly behavior sees him ostracized, and, when Ignat escapes across a decrepit railroad bridge to an island, he discovers an abandoned steam engine and a savage feral German girl hiding inside it. With its breathtaking camerawork and thundering action sequences, this classical love story provides a real taste of the essential Russian character...the very foundation of that country’s incredibly rich literary tradition. Subtitled Directed by Aleksei Uchitel Colorado Premiere

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Winner of the Best Narrative Award at the Plastic ends up as a mountain of nondigestable crap left over from Hamptons International Film Festival our disposable culture—things that we use once and then, without another thought, throw them “away.” But with plastic, there is no “away.” On Earth, 500 billion plastic bags a year (only 5% are recycled) For many, parenthood is life’s ultimate and are overflowing landfills, clogging rivers and creating vast islands of most intimate adventure. This according to the trash—one the size of Texas—in our oceans. Narrator Jeb Berrier trav- Great Realist, Czech director Alice Nellis, as she els around the world to find better possible models. In Ireland and other takes us, documentary-style, into the bedrooms, countries, he finds that a fee on plastic bags has led to a tremendous kitchens and bathrooms of four households, all reduction in their use—more than 90%. He ventures to communities in of which, in one way or another, face the chal- the U.S. that have proposed plastic bag bans and fees, and we discover lenges of conception and parenthood. Intimacy that the American Chemistry Council (with 130 corporate members, and drama are heightened as the actors playing including Dow Chemical) has been leveraging big money, along with a couples are actually married couples. We see wall of lawyers and lobbyists, in opposition to plastic bag fees. Find out disbelief, rage, depression, helplessness, pain, what we can do about it. Today. Right here in Boulder. Right now. love, infidelity, blood and sweat. Four emotionally powerful stories are interwoven by embarrass- Directed by Suzan Beraza ment and magic, with comfort and good fortune Boulder Premiere appearing only as an occasional summer’s Suzan Beraza in person breeze. Parents, from their own experience with procreation, will appreciate the realism of this in person director Suzan Beraza>> film; non-parents will simply appreciate their own great luck. Subtitled call2 Directed by Alice Nellis action Colorado Premiere Co-presented by New Vista High School’s Earth Task Force and Leigh Cushing, Campaigns Coordinator, Ecocycle ecocycle.org earthtaskforce.org

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program 26 program 27 Saturday, 2:45pm, First United Methodist Church Saturday, 5:00pm, First United Methodist Church Illegal For Once in My Life Belgium/Luxembourg/France, Feature Film, 2010, 95 min USA, Feature Documentary, 2010, 90 min Belgium’s nominee for the 2011 Academy Awards Winner at seven major U.S. film festivals Winner of SACD Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2010 “The Goodwill Band is a triumph of the spirit... a chance to rock out with the happiest musicians on the planet.” The Miami Herald Zimina Tania, a Russian woman, and her son Ivan, age 13, arrived in Belgium eight years ago. Although they are well integrated, they have no identity papers and live in hiding. Mixing wildly infectious enthusiasm with a driving back- One day they are accosted by the immigration police. Ivan beat, this astonishing film will grab you by the heart. The narrowly escapes, but his mother is sent to an immigrant 28-person band and chorus, the Spirit of Goodwill, just plain detention center for women, a brutish place kept that way rocks, and the fact of their individual disabilities fades away deliberately by the Belgium government so illegal aliens quickly behind the band’s extraordinary humor, tenacity and will never want to return. A large number of the residents pure, raw talent. Long a much-loved local music group, the are children, jailed with their mothers. It’s a prison for employee-band of South Florida Goodwill Industries gets an innocents and is duplicated in nearly every advanced opportunity for big-time exposure when Miami Mayor Manny industrial nation on Earth, always as a carefully hidden Diaz invites them to perform at the U.S. Mayor’s Convention secret. Immigrant prisons are the price of success for a in front of a crowd of thousands. A mood of joyous chaos country that spends millions for police and jails simply to erupts; nothing this band has ever accomplished has been keep others out. Subtitled in a straight line. There are always seismic ups and downs in the process, all documented here by unsentimental Directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse hand-held cameras. But oh, wait until you hear this band Colorado Premiere get together to play, sing and rock the blues. The music is a glorious, unrelenting masterpiece of pain and joy. Directed by Jim Bigham Featuring Javier Pena, Goodwill Band Music Director Boulder Premiere Jim Bigham and Javier Pena in person

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28 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com | 29 program 28 Saturday, 7:15pm, First United Methodist Church program 29 Saturday, 9:30pm, First United Methodist Hand Held Church USA/Romania, Feature Documentary, 2010, 85 min A labor of passion from legendary Oscar-winning film producer Armadillo Don Hahn (Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King) Denmark, Feature Documentary, 2010, 100 min Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival Photojournalist Mike Carroll’s camera recorded some of the most ‘‘Absolutely engrossing, extremely intense appalling scenes of the 20th century—Romanian orphanages packed and entirely real.” Toronto Film Festival with 160,000 dead and dying children, victims of a pediatric AIDS epidemic just after the fall of Communism in 1989. A Ceausescu policy of enforcing multi-baby families and prohibition of abortions had The first documentary ever to screen in Critic’s turned into a disastrous case of human suffering. Carroll documented Week at Cannes, this astounding film follows 30 | the horror for publications throughout the world, meanwhile founding several young Danish soldiers during their six- Romanian Children’s Relief to bring aid to the subjects in his lens. month duty in Armadillo, the most dangerous Nearly 20 years later, Don Hahn decided spontaneously to accompany outpost in Afghanistan. They fight tough battles Carroll to Romania and filmed him during visits to orphanages in Bu- against insurgents daily, but in one hellish charest and Transylvania. The resulting film is a stunning and powerful sequence the patrol (including this film’s cin- collage of Carroll’s shockingly honest photography and videos, footage ematographer) are ambushed by the Taliban. As of the violent 1989 coup d’état that toppled Ceausescu and contempo- this tense film progresses, the idealistic young rary video shot by Hahn and Romanian colleagues. See someone who soldiers—sent to Afghanistan as peacekeep- still believes they should be giving back to the world–even at great ers—clearly become addicted to the adrenaline personal cost. of battle and pursue their highs with increasing, heart-stopping recklessness. This is probably Directed by Don Hahn the way of soldiers and warriors throughout Colorado Premiere history, and viewers can intimately witness the Dohn Hahn and Mike Carroll in person, along with others from soldiers’ transformation through interviews with Romanian Children’s Relief and Stone Circle Pictures a master filmmaker. Premiering at the top of the box office in liberal, peace-loving Denmark, this call unprecedented documentary has provoked a 2 buzz saw of debate. Subtitled QA action Directed by Janus Metz Pedersen Don Hahn, director Boulder Premiere of Waking Sleeping Beauty, producer of Co-presented by Romanian Children’s Relief and The Lion King and The Boulder County AIDS Project Beauty and the Beast, Introduced by and author of The Jenny Borys, Community Outreach Director, Boulder County AIDS Project Alchemy of Animation rcr.org joins us for the Q&A. bcap.org program 30 Saturday, 10:30am, Boulder Public Library Shorts Program 1 – Second Screening Missed Shorts Program 1 on Friday? Here’s your opportunity to see that program, plus the winner of the 2010 Shoot Out Boulder Film Competition. See page 17 for synopses.

Preceded by program 31 Hippie Go Yuppie Saturday, 12:30pm, Boulder Public Library USA, Short Film, 2010, 7 min The Woman with the 5 Elephants This film won Best Film at the Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival. Switzerland/Germany, Feature Documentary, 2009, 93 min Now in its seventh year, the Shoot Out Boulder is a pioneering film fes- Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at Silverdocs tival that challenges filmmakers to trust their courage and determi- nation to make a 7-minute film in just 24 hours. Although witness to unspeakable horrors from both Directed by Jessie McDonald the Nazis and Stalin, 86-year-old Swetlana Geier is Jessie McDonald in person making her first trip since the war back to the places of her childhood in the Ukraine. Geier is considered to be the greatest living translator of Russian literature into German, and her new translations of Dostoyevsky’s five great novels, known as “the five elephants,” are her life’s work and literary milestones. Geier’s work is characterized by a great and sensual feeling for language and uncompromising respect for the writers Community. she translates. “Translations are mortal. Every epoch deserves its own translations,” she says. This lyrical Culture.Character. film interweaves the story of Geier’s life with her liter- ary work and traces the secrets of her inexhaustible love of great writing. “It sings to me,” she says, “from We proudly support the beneath the words.” Subtitled Boulder International Film Festival. Directed by Vadim Jendreyko Vadim Jendreyko in person

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program 33 Saturday, 7:00pm, Boulder Public Library Shorts Program 2 –Second Screening Same as Program 19. Here’s your chance to see seven great short films. Again. Dig it. See page 24 for full synopses. The (Atacama) desert is a vast, timeless space that is made up of salt and wind... The Milky Way is so bright it makes shadows... There are domes that look like fallen space ves- sels in which the astronomers live... All around, there are human remains. Patricio Guzmán

Chile’s Atacama Desert is the driest place on earth—many of its rivers have not held water for 100,000 years. For as- tronomers, it’s the perfect place to build large telescopes. For archaeologists, it’s the perfect place to peer into our past because the dryness prevents rotting and mummifies human bodies intact. And for a ruthless dictator like Augusto Pino- chet, the Atacama was the perfect place to build inescapable concentration camps—out of sight of the world—where tens of thousands of Chileans could be enslaved and “disappeared.” Legendary Chilean director Patricio Guzmán’s first love was astronomy. We see his startling, narrated images of distant program 34 stars and galaxies, whose light has been traveling to earth for Sunday, 10:00am, Boulder Theater billions of years. Then images are interwoven with the women Nostalgia for the Light outside the telescope domes in the desert as they are searching Chile, Feature Documentary, 2010, 90 min through the vast terrain of bones and mummified body parts for the remains of their “disappeared” loved ones. Some of the women have been searching here for decades. This is a brilliant and elegant film from one of the world’s master filmmakers. Subtitled Directed by Patricio Guzmán Colorado Premiere

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freedom riders I was on that bus “that was firebombed in Anniston, and the Klan held the door shut while the bus was burning. The fuel tank exploded and the people who were holding the door scattered.” Freedom Rider Hank Thomas

50 years later... program 36 BIFF is proud to welcome a genuine American Sunday, 2:30pm, Boulder Theater call2 hero, civil rights leader and original Freedom Freedom Riders action Rider, Congressman John Lewis, for a Q&A after USA, Feature Documentary, 2010, 113 min this screening.

In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, Often called one of the most courageous persons the while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, Civil Rights Movement ever produced, Congressman John remained indifferent. That is, until 400 black and white college students (including a young John Lewis), intent on challeng- Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, ing the Jim Crow laws in the South that mandated segregation securing civil liberties and building what he calls "The of such things as schools, parks, libraries, drinking fountains, Beloved Community" in America. restaurants, trains and buses, decided to risk everything and As a young boy in Alabama, Lewis was inspired by the simply buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders. And as they endured activism surrounding the Montgomery Bus Boycott and maniacal racism, beatings, firebombs and mob violence, they the words of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. While a student managed to bring the President and the entire American public at American Baptist College, Lewis organized sit-ins at face to face with the stark, irredeemable ugliness of institutional segregated lunch counters in Nashville, racism in America. Tennessee. In 1961, Lewis volunteered to participate in Directed by Stanley Nelson the Freedom Rides during which he risked his life many Boulder Premiere times by simply sitting in seats reserved for Congressman John Lewis will be introduced by Senator Mark Udall white patrons. and Congressman Jared Polis He was elected to Congress in November 1986 and has served as U.S. Representative of Georgia's Fifth Con- program 37 gressional District for the past 25 years. He was recently Sunday, 12:30pm, Boulder Public Library awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Freedom Riders SECOND SCREENING USA, Feature Documentary, 2010, 113 min >> Free to Students ONLY, ages 13-18 in person

program 38 QA Sunday, 3:15pm, Boulder Public Library To Be Announced Please see BIFF1.com or the Boulder Theater Box Office for the announcement of this film during the Festival. Inspired by heritage Driven by creativity oliver

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Oliver Stone to receive oliver stoneBIFF Master of Cinema Award Doors open 7:00pm/6:45 for Passholders Music and reception 7:00-8:30pm Easily one of the most brilliant and BIFF Awards Ceremony 8:30pm provocative filmmakers of our time, three- Tribute to follow time Oscar® winner Oliver Stone is a Holly- wood legend. Stone’s 18 feature films have Appetizers by Whole Foods Markets earned 31 Academy Award nominations Desserts by Cheesecake Factory and include some of the most memorable Tea by Bhakti Chai movies of the last 30 years: from Midnight French-press coffee by OZO Express, Scarface, Conan the Barbarian, Wines by Francis Ford Coppola Winery Year of the Dragon and Evita to Platoon, Music by Cool Shooz Wall Street, Talk Radio, Born On The Fourth Of July, Natural Born Killers, JFK, The People vs. Larry Flynt, The Joy Luck Club, Any Given Sunday, World Trade Center, W and his 2010 hit Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

Stone has won an Emmy for the HBO film Indictment: The McMartin Trial, and in the | 37 spring of 2011, Showtime will debut a new 10-episode documentary series entitled The tributeUntold History of the United States, which Stone created, narrated and produced.

Oliver Stone is known in the film industry for his ability to coax great performances from his actors, eight of whom won Best Acting Oscars for their work in his films. Before studying film under Martin Scors- ese at the NYU Film School, Stone served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Vietnam in 1967–68. He was wounded twice and decorated with the Bronze Star for Valor and the Purple Heart.

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4849 | boulder international film festival 2011 biff1.com tickets at 303.786.7030, biff1.com or www.bouldertheater.com biff1.com | 49 THURSfeb 17 FRIDAYfeb 18 Boulder schedule Theater/First United Boulder First United Boulder St Julien Index Methodist Church Theater Methodist Church Public Library 8 8 special events page Filmmaker Panel 11 Filmmaker Party 8 9 9 DiMe 16 James Franco 26 Opening Night Gala 13 Closing Night Ceremony 37 10 10 3 10:00am 9 10:00am films page Mother: Caring Our The Flaw An African Election 25 11 11 Way Out of the Popu- Armadillo 30 lation Dilemma Bag It 28 Conversation w/James Franco 26 Crazy Wisdom 19 N N 10 12:00pm The Edge 27 4 12:00pm The First Grader 14 The First Grader Henri-George The Flaw 19 Clouzot’s Inferno For Once in My Life 29 1 1 Title 1:00pm Freedom Riders 35 Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould 21 2 2 DiMe The Green Wave 18 15 2:00pm Symposium Hammerhead 21 2:30pm Genius Hand Held 30 5 2:30pm 11 Within: The *at the Henri-George Clouzot’s Inferno 19 3 3 Inner Life of St Julien* Illegal 29 Waste Land Crazy Wisdom Glenn Gould Into Eternity 20 The Labyrinth 32 The Last Circus 18 4 4 The Last Lions 23 2 4:00pm Mamas and Papas 28 When the Dragon 16 4:30pm Midnight Express 21 5 Swallowed the Sun 5 Regretters Mother: Caring Our Way Out of First United 6 5:00pm 12 5:00pm the Population Dilemma 14 Methodist Church Nostalgia for the Light 33 Shorts Program 1 These Amazing One Thousand Pictures 32 6 6 Shadows Punching the Clown 20 Regretters 21 6:30pm 17 6:30pm Sarah’s Key 25 1 Shorts Program 1 17 7 7 Shorts Program 2 24 A 7:00-9:00pm 13 7:15pm Shorts Program 3 34 Colorado Film Society 7 7:15pm Midnight Express Opening Night Gala Public Filmmaker These Amazing Shadows 20 Into Eternity Party Tribute to Oliver Stone 37 8 8 Music by Troubadours 13 At Lazy Dog Lounge Cool Shooz The Green Wave Waste Land 15 When the Dragon Swallowed Film the Sun 13 9 Troubadours 9 The Woman With The 5

Elephants 31 Boulder Theater 14 9:15pm 8 9:30pm 10 10 Punching the Clown The Last Circus

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10 10 18 10:00am 24 10:00am 34 10:00am 30 10:30am Nostalgia for Light The Last Lions Mamas and Papas 11 11 Shorts Program 1 Second Screening

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20 2:45pm 26 2:45pm 3 3 An African Election B 3:00pm 36 2:30pm Illegal 38 3:15pm Filmmaker Panel Freedom Riders TBA 4 4 4:00-6:00pm At Ted’s Montana Grill Filmmaker Reception 5 5

21 5:00pm 27 5:00pm 32 5:00pm Sarah’s Key For Once in My Life The Labyrinth 6 One Thousand 6 Pictures

7 7 7:00-9:00pm 33 7:00pm 39 7:00pm 28 7:15pm Public Filmmaker 22 7:30pm Shorts Program 2 Party 8 Hand Held Second Screening 8 Closing Night A Conversation with Awards and Tribute At Lazy Dog Lounge James Franco Awards Ceremony 9 9 Music by Something Underground 29 9:30pm 23 9:30pm Tribute to Oliver 10 10 Stone The Edge Armadillo

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