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documentary.org UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF) CELEBRATES Founder and Executive Director 17 YEARS OF GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARIES WITH 70 FILMS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE. Jasmina Bojic 7 WORLD PREMIERES AND 16 U.S. PREMIERES TO BE SCREENED Honorary Committee OCTOBER 16-26 WITH THE THEME OF “BRIDGING THE GAP”. Alec Baldwin Peter Coyote OVER 60 FILMMAKERS TO BE IN ATTENDANCE THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL. Lolita Davidovich William Draper III The United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is delighted to announce its program for Danny Glover the 17th year. As one of the oldest solely documentary film festivals in the US, established in Daryl Hannah 1998 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Gale Anne Hurd Human Rights, it has grown and earned the respect of audiences and Susan Sarandon filmmakers alike for its fearless independence and integrity. In addi- John Savage tion to providing early outlets for films, many of which later went on Erika Szanto to win major awards and accolades including Academy Awards, UNAFF prides itself in creating a community forum for discovery and Ted Turner dialogue about different cultures, issues and solutions. Barbara Trent Zucchero In pursuing its mission over the years UNAFF has expanded beyond screenings by organizing year-round panel discussions, launched Advisory Board programs that address children, students and seniors, created a trav- Juliette Feeney-Timsit, Chair eling festival which keeps the films alive well beyond their initial festi- Beth Charlesworth val showings, and opened its doors to documentary film students and researchers. Priscilla Connelly Bob Filice The UN has always been about overcoming chasms between: North Mary Granholm and South, developed and undeveloped, educated and uneducated, Dianne Griffin those with water, food, healthcare and other means, and those with- Ronny Hamed out, men and women, races and religions, cultures and lifestyles. That Seth Horvitz is why this year we have chosen the theme BRIDGING THE GAP as Roland Hsu well as the UDHR article 25 “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family”. Charles Junkerman Cathy Keys While we are experiencing many of these widening gaps here in the US as well, we felt that it Betty Meissner would be timely to survey what filmmakers from around the globe have to say on these topics Mary Jane Marcus and paint a larger picture, so we can glean what is specific, and what is universal about these dif- Suzan Miller ferences and what we should do to overcome them. Misha Milojkovic In the eleven days at different locations through Bay Area: Palo Alto, Stanford University, East Amado Padilla Palo Alto and San Francisco, UNAFF will present some timely stories than ever on topics such a John Pearson new perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the slums of the world, the global waste crisis, Relja Penezic women at the center of the drive for social change, teens placed in solitary confinement, liberty Nancy Raber and inequality, fear and compassion. Laarni von Ruden We hope that the variety of film programs and other related events during UNAFF 2014 will Chris Scheerder present you with a truly exciting and memorable experience. We thank you all for your atten- Duarte Silva dance, and with your support we hope to continue UNAFF and its programs throughout 2015. Helen Young Warmest regards,

Jasmina Bojic Founder and Executive Director UNAFF & UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Recipient of the 2014 UNESCO Fellini Medal THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 Sponsored by FACT, Free Admission OPENING NIGHT SCREENINGS Aquarius Theatre 430 Emerson Street Palo Alto

6:45 pm Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, Nancy Shepherd

7:00 pm MARIA OF MANY (US, 4 min) TOC 7:10 pm JESUS WAS A COMMIE (US, 15 min) Welcome 1 7:30 pm KING’S POINT (US, 31 min)

Opening & Closing Nights 2 8:10 pm TRASHED (China/Indonesia/Lebanon/Turkey/UK/US, 97 min) Films A–Z 3–9, 12 Schedule 10–11 Print Sources 14–15 Sponsors 16 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 Tickets 17 Special Thanks 18 CLOSING NIGHT Venues 19 SCREENINGS Palo Alto Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middlefield Road

2:00 pm PAKISTAN’S HIDDEN SHAME (Pakistan/UK, 47 min)

3:00 pm JFK: A PRESIDENT BETRAYED (Austria/Germany/Russia/US, 90 min)

4:45 pm THE GOLD SPINNERS (Estonia, 73 min)

6:00 pm THE E-WASTE TRAGEDY (China/Ghana/Spain, 86 min)

7:30 pm A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND (Israel/Palestine/US, 79 min)

9:00 pm Awards Ceremony

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY Garden Court Hotel 520 Cowper Street Palo Alto, CA 94301

9:30 pm Closing Night Party, sponsored by Garden Court Hotel Music by Potential Jazz Ensemble AFTER TILLER ALUMBRONES DIR/PROD: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson DIR/PROD: Bruce Donnelly

After Tiller intimately explores the highly contro- This documentary feature looks at the work and versial subject of third-trimester abortions in the lives of twelve contemporary Cuban artists liv- wake of the 2009 assassination of practitioner Dr. ing in Havana today. Visiting each person in their George Tiller. The procedure is now performed home and studio, the film covers a diverse range by only four doctors in the US, all former col- of subjects and issues, from supply shortages and leagues of Dr. Tiller, who risk their lives every day constant blackouts to family life, love, sex and mu- in the name of their unwavering commitment to- sic. (72 min, Brazil/Cuba/US) ward their patients. (88 min, US) SAT OCT 18 5:45 PM SU-ANNENBERG SUN OCT 19 9:10 PM SU-ANNENBERG FILMS A-Z

ANGEL AZUL THE APOTHECARY BAREFOOT DIR/PROD: Marcelina Cravat DIR/PROD: Helen Hood Scheer DIR/PROD: Mariana Rodriguez

Angel Azul explores the artistic journey of Jason In an impoverished former mining town in the Barefoot is a documentary about a group of in- deCaires Taylor, an innovative artist who com- American Southwest, a beloved druggist runs the digenous children from Mexico who have been bines creativity with an important environmental community’s main hub: the sole pharmacy within gaining popularity because of their skills on the solution; the creation of artificial coral reefs from 4,000 square miles. He gamely occupies multiple basketball court. The region that the children statues he’s cast from live models. When algae roles as a surrogate doctor, life counselor and come from faces extreme poverty and political overtakes the reefs, however, experts provide the community benefactor. (18 min, US) turmoil and the kids have found hope through facts about the perilous situation coral reefs cur- SAT OCT 18 8:30 PM SU-ANNENBERG their sport. The ‘barefoot champions’, partici- rently face and solutions necessary to save them. pate in tournaments without shoes because they The film is narrated by Peter Coyote. are so used to living and training without them. (71 min, Mexico/US) (Mexico, 40 min) FRI OCT 24 7:00 PM PA-PALY FRI OCT 17 12:00 PM PA-AQUARIUS

THE BAREFOOT ARTIST BASTARDS THE BOX DIR: Glenn Holsten, Daniel Traub DIR/PROD: Deborah Perkin DIR: Michael Schiller PROD: Michael Schiller, Daffodil Altan, Marco Lily Yeh is a global artist who is fueled by a belief How an illiterate young woman took on tradition, Villalobos, Trey Bundy that art is a human right, and that artists can cre- her own family and the Moroccan legal system for ate a foundation for profound social change. The the sake of her illegitimate child. The first person Every year, thousands of teens are placed in soli- film explores two sides of Lily’s life that are con- to film in the family courts, the filmmaker follows tary confinement cells in juvenile halls, jails and nected parts of the same journey: her interna- Rabha El Haimer over eighteen months, as she prisons nationwide. This animation tells the story tional ventures helping to heal weakened spirits tries to legitimize her forced marriage and protect of Ismael ‘Izzy’ Nazario and the time he spent in and a personal journey within, to repair her own her daughter from outcast ‘bastard’ status. solitary confinement in New York City’s Rikers Is- fractured family. (83 min, Morooco/UK) land jail. This story was created using real audio (91 min, China/Rwanda/South Africa/US) SUN OCT 19 5:30 PM SU-ANNENBERG from an interview with Nazario. Featuring music FRI OCT 24 8:30 PM PA-PALY from Mos Def. (6 min, US) SUN OCT 19 2:20 PM SU-ANNENBERG

3 BRAVE MISS WORLD BROKEN CITY POETS A CIVIL REMEDY DIR: Cecilia Peck DIR: Ariane Wu DIR: Kate Nace Day PROD: Cecilia Peck, Inbal Lessner, Motty Reif PROD: Ariane Wu, Stephen Talbot, Michael Schiller, PROD: Kate Nace Day, Shannon Carroll Jose Vadi Miss Israel Linor Abargil was abducted, stabbed Within the US, tens of thousands of girls and and raped in Milan, Italy at age eighteen. She Film chronicles the lives of four high school stu- women are trafficked for sex, every year. In the had to represent her country in the Miss World dents from Stockton who are challenged to use shadow of law, traffickers, pimps and “johns” competition only six weeks later. When to her poetry to make sense of their bankrupt, gang-rid- commit brutal crimes while the victims are of- shock she was crowned the winner, she vowed den city. The students’ deadline for finishing their ten treated like criminals. Commentary by Gloria to do something about rape. Her serial rapist be- poems coincides with a citywide slam poetry com- Steinem and others explores a civil remedy – a comes eligible for parole, and she has to hunt petition whose winners will go on to compete in a private civil action for money damages – to em- down his previous victims in order to help keep national contest. During this journey, the students power victims and hold the full line-up of perpe- him behind bars. (Israel/US, 88 min) learn that language is a means of personal re- trators accountable. (US, 24 min) MON OCT 20 7:30 PM SU-CERAS demption, as well as a tool for social change. MON OCT 20 7:00 PM SU-CERAS (US, 30 min) WED OCT 22 4:00 PM SU-CERAS

COUNTING THE DEAD DANCE UP FROM THE STREET DISRUPTION DIR/PROD: Catharine Axley DIR/PROD: Peter Goldsmid DIR: Pamela Yates PROD: Paco de Onis Gladys Hansen is an eighty-eight year-old for- Rebecca Davis, spends months of every year teach- mer city librarian who has dedicated fifty years ing dance to homeless former street kids of Kigali, A band of Latin American activist-economists of her life to searching for the dead of the 1906 Rwanda, twenty years after one of the bloodiest sets out to reduce inequality in the region with San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. She found episodes of ethnic cleansing since World War II. a model that places women at the center of the out that the city had grossly underestimated the The film shows how dance can transcend barriers drive for social change. Collaborating with gov- number of dead, and in fact, had intentionally of language, race and age and inspire a lost gen- ernments, big banks and women marginalized downplayed the fatalities and damage to avoid eration to aim for the stars. by poverty in Peru, Colombia and Brazil, they discouraging future investments in city business. (Rwanda/South Africa, 28 min) spread financial literacy horizontally using digital (US, 7 min) WED OCT 22 3:15 PM EPA-EASTSIDE education tools and innovative strategies for fi- WED OCT 22 7:00PM SF-NINTH STREET nancial inclusion. (Brazil/Colombia/Peru/US, 85 min) SAT OCT 18 4:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG

DRONES IN MY BACKYARD DRY SEASON THE E-WASTE TRAGEDY DIR: Alan Snitow DIR/PROD: Max Good, Tyler Trumbo DIR: Cosima Dannoritzer PROD: Deborah Kaufman PROD: Joan Ubeda, Media 3.14 An eclectic Northern California town faces an One day a drone appears in the filmmaker’s back- uncertain future as the state suffers through its Every year, up to fifty million tons of electron- yard, hovering over his head. It’s the catalyst for worst drought in 500 years. (US, 8 min) ic waste -computers, television sets, mobile an extended meditation and free association on FRI OCT 17 11:25 AM PA-AQUARIUS phones, household appliances - are thrown away the presence of drones in war-making, the role by consumers in the developed countries. Seven- of drones in surveillance, and the thrill of flying ty-five percent of this waste disappears from the when you put on goggles to see what the drone legal recycling circuit, much of it dumped ille- sees. (US, 13 min) gally in the Third World. This investigation shows FRI OCT 17 8:30 PM SU-ANNENBERG the greedy, corrupt, illegal commerce behind this type of waste. (China/Ghana/Spain, 86 min) SUN OCT 26 6:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

4 FACING FEAR FAMILIES ARE FOREVER THE FORGOTTEN DIR/PROD: Jason Cohen DIR/PROD: Vivian Kleiman DIR: David Feldman PROD: Aaron Butler

In this Academy Nominated film the worlds of a Tom and Wendy were devout Mormon parents Ramiro Gomez, a young Los Angeles street artist former neo-Nazi and the gay victim of his sense- living in a conservative community: attending took a job as a nanny in Beverly Hills and began less hate crime attack collide by chance twenty- church every Sunday, actively serving in their to create life-size cardboard representations of five years after the incident that dramatically ward, raising five children and knocking on doors the migrant gardeners, housekeepers, and nan- shaped both of their lives. They proceed to em- to promote support for California’s Proposition nies he works alongside. He put them in front of bark on a journey of forgiveness that challeng- 8 to prevent same-sex marriage. Then one day, houses around affluent neighborhoods. The son es both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, Wendy read thirteen-year-old Jordon’s diary and of Mexican immigrants, Gomez felt that these eventually leading to an improbable collabora- discovered he was gay. (US, 21 min) migrant workers were being overlooked, forgot- tion and friendship. (US, 23 min) SUN OCT 19 1:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG ten, for their contribution. (Mexico/US, 14 min) TUE OCT 21 4:00PM SU-ENCINA HALL WED OCT 22 7:10 PM SF-NINTH STREET

FREEDOM SUMMER G-DOG GENERATION Z: DIR: Stanley Nelson DIR/PROD: Freida Mock CHILD SOLDIERS OF THE ZETAS PROD: Stanley Nelson, Stacey Holman, Cyndee DIR/PROD: Josiah Hooper Readdean Greg Boyle - Jesuit priest and unlikely gang ex- Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom pert - launched the largest, most successful gang Generation Z explores the rise of the Zetas and Summer in 1964 more than 700 student volun- intervention and rehab program in the US, now their leader, Miguel Treviño, who aggressively teers joined with organizers and local African a global model. The film tells an often hilarious pursued the strategy of recruiting child soldiers. Americans in an historic effort to shatter the foun- story of how Father Greg, called G-Dog by his The film includes interviews with former Zeta dations of white supremacy in Mississippi, the homies, believing that ‘Nothing Stops a Bullet child soldiers. One of them, Rosalio Reta, is now nation’s most segregated state. The summer was like a Job,’ transformed the lives of thousands of serving a prison sentence in Texas for murder. marked by sustained and deadly violence, includ- Latino, Asian and African American former gang Reta tells the story of how Treviño recruited him ing the notorious murders of three civil rights members. (US, 92 min) one night on an isolated ranch in northern Mexi- workers, countless beatings, the burning of thirty WED OCT 22 3:50 PM EPA-EASTSIDE co. (Mexico/US, 30 min) five churches, and the bombing of seventy homes SAT OCT 25 1:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY and community centers. (US, 113 min) TUE OCT 21 8:00 PM SU-ENCINA HALL

THE GOLD SPINNERS GROWING HOME HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH DIR: Hardi Volmer DIR: Faisal Attrache DIR/PROD: Frauke Sandig, Eric Black PROD: Kiur Aarma PROD: Heidi Hathaway, Faisal Attrache The ancient Maya believed this present world It is a story of the film studio, which was the only Amid Syria’s refugee crisis that has displaced would end and a new cycle arise after 5125 years. enterprise producing commercials in the Soviet nine million people, a Syrian barber struggles to How does the story end? Does the water change Union. It might have been born in the head of maintain normality in the Zaatari refugee camp. color? Do the oceans collapse? Following six one man, but during its heyday the studio pro- (Syria/US, 22 min) young Maya in Guatemala and Chiapas through vided employment for hundreds of people and SAT OCT 25 5:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY their daily and ceremonial life, the film reveals its clips won over millions. And all this in the so- their determination to resist the destruction of cialist empire, under the conditions of planned their culture and environment. economy and universal lack of everything. (Guatemala/Mexico/US, 98 min) (Estonia, 73 min) WED OCT 22 8:05PM SF-NINTH STREET SUN OCT 26 4:45 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

5 I AM A GIRL IN PLAIN SIGHT IN THE WAKE OF STALIN DIR: Rebecca Barry DIR/PROD: Erica Jordan DIR: Thomas Johnson PROD: Sylvie Cazin We meet fourteen-year-old Kimsey from Cambo- Central to the story is Lisa’s pursuit to document dia, forced to sell her virginity at age twelve; Aziza Sonagachi, the largest brothel in India. As Lisa Through the work of human rights organization, from Afghanistan, who will be shot if she goes to struggles to gain access, we witness her dedica- the film shows how Stalin’s ghost still haunts Rus- school; Breani, a teen living in a ghetto in NYC and tion and courage to shine a light on slavery and sian society, its people and institutions, blocking dreaming of stardom; Katie from Australia recover- ‘give a voice to the voiceless.’ Woven into the sto- the path to democracy. Archival footage retraces ing from a suicide attempt; Habiba from Cameroon, ry, Lisa shares her work in the trenches of global sixty years of a yet unfinished “de-stalinization.” betrothed to a man twenty years her senior; and slavery from the broiling brick kilns of Nepal and (France/Russia, 91 min) Manu from Papua New Guinea about to become India to the illegal mine shafts of Ghana, and the SUN OCT 19 2:30 PM SU-ANNENBERG a mother at fourteen. Being born a girl means you hidden lairs of sex slavery worldwide. are more likely to be subjected to violence, disease (Ghana/India/Nepal/US, 54 min) and poverty. (Afghanistan/Australia/Cambodia/ SAT OCT 25 3:10 PM PA-CUBBERLEY Cameroon/Papua New Guinea, 88 min) MON OCT 20 4:40 PM SU-CERAS

IT ALL STARTED WITH MOM IT’S UP TO YOU JESUS WAS A COMMIE DIR/PROD: Catherine O’Brien DIR: Kajsa Næss DIR: Matthew Modine, Terence Ziegler PROD: Lise Fearnley PROD: Adam Rackoff The film’s resulting narrative is a humorous ex- amination of three generations and seven de- In kindergarten, everybody else’s dads are not in Did Jesus speak against economic inequalities, cades of dating rituals. A delightful view of some prison. That’s the problem. An animated docu- or was he a capitalist who taught about rewards of O’Brien’s less-than-ideal courting efforts are mentary about growing up with a father in jail. based on ability and achievement? This avant- illustrated by her now-husband, Anthony Mon- (Norway, 15 min) garde story follows “John Doe” as he examines tanino. (US, 24 min) FRI OCT 17 11:40 AM PA-AQUARIUS history and science and whether Jesus might SUN OCT 19 1:30 PM SU-ANNENBERG have been a utopian communist. (US, 15 min) THU OCT 16 7:10 PM PA-AQUARIUS

JFK: A PRESIDENT BETRAYED THE KILL TEAM KILLING HER IS A TICKET TO PARADISE DIR: Cory Taylor DIR: Dan Krauss DIR/PROD: Khadija Al-salami PROD: Darin Nellis PROD: Linda Davis, Dan Krauss When Boushra writes an article expressing her Some of the President John F. Kennedy bold ac- The film goes behind closed doors to tell the riv- pain and great disappointment in a broken and tions provoked extreme resentment from his eting story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a twenty- confiscated dream of freedom and democracy, it own top military advisors. Narrated by Academy one-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who never occurs to her that her writing will become Award-winner Morgan Freeman, this film uncov- attempted with the help of his father to alert the a serious threat to herself and her family. ers new evidence that reveals how John F. Ken- military to heinous war crimes his platoon was (Yemen, 56 min) nedy reversed years of entrenched US govern- committing. Tragically, his father’s pleas for help TUE OCT 21 4:30 PM SU-ENCINA HALL ment policy to embark on secret back-channel went unheeded. Once Adam’s fellow soldiers got peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Cas- wind of what he’d done, they threatened to si- tro and other sworn American enemies. ( lence him -- permanently. Austria/Germany/Russia/US, 90 min) (Afghanistan/US, 79 min) SUN OCT 26 3:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY FRI OCT 17 9:50 PM SU-ANNENBERG

6 KING’S POINT LANGUAGES IN SURVIVAL: MENIK THE LAST BATTLE DIR: Sari Gilman DIR: Rozenn Milin DIR/PROD: Jemma Gander PROD: Bo Travail! In the Academy Nominated documentary about Filmed over three years, film traces the story of a five seniors living in a retirement resort in Kings This documentary is about endangered lan- small group of elderly Kenyans in their successful Point, Florida. During the 1970s and 1980s, guages and cultures in sub-Saharan Africa. It is fight to win a full trial against the British govern- thousands of New York’s primarily Jewish senior dedicated to the Menik people in the Ivory Coast ment for torture suffered at the hands of the citizens migrated to King’s Point, a retirement who struggle to preserve and develop their lan- British colonial authorities at the height of the community in Florida. Lured by blue skies, sun- guages and all that it conveys. Thus, they fight 1950s Mau Mau emergency. With intimate and shine and the promise of richer social lives, they for their dignity. (Senegal, 6 min) disturbing interviews documentary follows the bought paradise for a mere $1500 down pay- FRI OCT 24 4:00 PM PA-PALY developing legal case and lays bare a history that ment. (US, 31 min) was deliberately hidden. (Kenya/UK, 47 min) THU OCT 16 7:30 PM PA-AQUARIUS FRI OCT 17 8:50 PM SU-ANNENBERG

THE LAST SEASON LIBYA, THE MIGRANT TRAP LIGHT AND DARK DIR: Sara Dosa DIR/PROD: Veronique Mauduy DIR: Veronica Lopez PROD: Josh Penn For African migrants Libya used to be a Mecca: A glimpse into the filmmaker’s nephew’s life and Amid the bustling world of Oregon’s wild mat- a place to find work or get access to Europe. But his struggle with mental illness in the wake of re- sutake mushroom-hunting camps, the lives of now the workers who come here are trapped in peated national tragedies. (US, 10 min) two former soldiers intersect. Roger, a seventy- the political, economic and social chaos engulf- THU OCT 23 7:00PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL five-year-old sniper with the US Special Forces in ing the country. (France/Libya, 26 min) Vietnam, and Kouy, a forty-six-year-old platoon SUN OCT 19 2:10 PM SU-ANNENBERG leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Freedom Fighters who battled the brutal Khmer Rouge, come to- gether each fall to hunt the elusive matsutake mushroom, a rare mushroom prized in Japanese culture and cuisine. (US, 78 min) FRI OCT 17 6:50 PM SU-ANNENBERG

MARIA OF MANY MARSHLAND DREAMS MATTHIEU RICARD, ON THE DIR/PROD: Alexandra Liveris DIR/PROD: John Antonelli PATH TO COMPASSION PROD: Isabella Gripon After being mistreated as a part-time hire, Once the largest ecosystem in the Middle East, Mexican immigrant María finds her voice, a and the rich homeland of Sumerians for millen- Matthieu Ricard spends much of his time on community, and dignity within the San Francisco nia, the Mesopotamian marshes were destroyed humanitarian projects in India and Nepal. He Women’s Collective—an all women worker-run systematically by Saddam Hussein so that regularly participates in scientific studies on group that provides cleaning jobs in exchange they couldn’t shelter rebel forces. Drained and the effect of meditation on the brain. Matthew for activism on behalf of the rights of domestic burned, the vital wetland habitat seemed lost devotes all of its copyrights and profits of his laborers. (US, 4 min) forever. Iraqi exile Azzam Alwash, never accepted lectures to more than one hundred humanitar- THU OCT 16 7:00 PM PA-AQUARIUS that this magical place of his childhood could ian projects he has created in the Himalayan re- simply cease to exist. (Iraq/US, 7 min) gions. (Bhutan/France/Nepal, 52 min) SAT OCT 18 1:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG (Germany/Paraguay/Switzerland, 86 min) TUE OCT 21 7:00 PM SU-ENCINA HALL

7 MESTIZO THE MURAL MY STOLEN REVOLUTION DIR: Talon Gonzalez DIR: Francisco Guijarro DIR: Nahid Persson Sarvestani PROD: Jane Lim PROD: Juli López, Diya Guha, Francisco Guijarro A student activist in Iran’s 1979 revolution that Multiethnic individuals express the complexity Film follows the stories of several artists with overthrew the Shah, Nahid fled to Sweden with of identity when confronted with the question developmental disabilities from non-profit The her baby after Islamists seized power and began ‘What are you?’ Through spoken word perfor- Arc San Francisco as they work together with a persecuting leftists who had been their revo- mance and interviews, subjects share their expe- group of civic artists to paint a wall that aims to lutionary allies. Three decades later, prompted riences of growing up mixed-race in the twenty erase barriers. (US, 20 min) by brutal crackdowns on protests in Iran and first century. (US, 10 min) WED OCT 22 7:40 PM SF-NINTH STREET long-suppressed guilt for abandoning a younger WED OCT 22 3:00 PM EPA-EASTSIDE brother to imprisonment and death, the film- maker locates and reunites with five women who were tortured in the jails she so narrowly es- caped. (Iran/Norway/Sweden/UK, 75 min) SAT OCT 25 4:20 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

THE PAD PIPER PAKISTAN’S HIDDEN SHAME A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND DIR/PROD: Akanksha Sood DIR: Mohammed Naqvi DIR: Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon PROD: Jamie Doran PROD: Pennie Ungar-Sargon, Eliyahu Ungar-Sargon The Pad Piper is the incredible story of a school dropout and grassroots innovator from India, In towns and cities across Pakistan, tens of thou- The prevailing wisdom has been that the solution Arunachalam Muruganantham, and how his in- sands of young boys have become the victims of to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would come in the novation, a low-cost sanitary-pad making ma- pedophile predators with nothing to fear from form of a two-state solution. With half a million Is- chine, is changing the face of menstrual hygiene the law. In a society where women are hidden raeli settlers living throughout the West Bank and for women across India. Menstruation is a ta- from view and young girls deemed untouchable, millions of Palestinian refugees demanding to re- boo and a subject few men know or dare to ask the bus stations, truck stops and alleyways have turn to their homes in Israel, the two-state solution about. (India/Japan, 52 min) become the hunting ground for perverted men no longer seems practical. SAT OCT 18 3:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG to prey on the innocent. (Pakistan/UK, 47 min) (Israel/Palestine/US, 79 min) SUN OCT 26 2:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY SUN OCT 26 7:30 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST RED LINES REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG DAYS OF PRIVATE JACK HALL DIR: Andrea Kalin, Oliver Lukacs DIR/PROD: Nancy Kates DIR: Edgar Barens PROD: Andrea Kalin PROD: Edgar Barens, Lisa Heller Film chronicles Sontag’s rise to fame; she was In 2011, when Syria’s Bashar al-Assad answered one of the twentieth century’s most influen- The Academy Nominated moving cinema verite his people’s call for freedom with stunning vio- tial thinkers, while struggling privately with her documentary breaks through the walls of one lence, the outside world looked away. While the fears, sexuality, self-image, and relationships. of Americas oldest maximum security prisons to US drew red lines for intervention, Assad ramped Sontag thought deeply about crisis, from war tell the story of the final months in the life of a up his attacks targeting journalists and block- and the Holocaust to personal crisis: a stage IV terminally ill prisoner and the hospice volunteers, ing humanitarian aid to millions of victims. As cancer diagnosis at forty-two. Sontag was by they themselves prisoners, who care for him. (US, the destruction of civil war raged on, citizens turns brilliant, beautiful, arrogant and insightful. 40 min)) stepped up to fill the roles of banned journalists, (US, 98 min) FRI OCT 17 6:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG aid organizations and governments. SAT OCT 18 9:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG (Syria/US, 99 min) SAT OCT 25 6:10 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

8 RUNNING FROM CRAZY SEWING HOPE SLOMO DIR: Barbara Kopple DIR: Derek Watson DIR: Joshua Izenberg PROD: Barbara Kopple, David Cassidy PROD: Joshua Izenberg, Amanda Micheli For twenty-five years Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Hailed as one of the most distinguished families Resistance Army terrorized Northern Uganda. Depressed and frustrated with his life, Dr. John in American literature, the Hemingways have al- Children were stolen from their families and Kitchin abandons his career as a neurologist and ways exposed both their bright brilliance and brainwashed to be soldiers. Academy Award- moves to Pacific Beach. There, he undergoes a their harrowing secrets. The film presents Mariel winning actor/producer Forest Whitaker tells this radical transformation into SLOMO, trading his Hemingway, a granddaughter of the legendary story of one woman’s fight to bring hope back to lab coat for a pair of rollerblades and his IRA for a writer Ernest, as she explores her family’s disturb- her nation. Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe leads a vo- taste of divinity. (US, 18 min) ing history of mental illness and suicide. cational school in Gulu, Uganda, where she uses THU OCT 23 7:20 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL (US, 101 min) practical skills to restore dignity, independence THU OCT 23 7:45PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL and hope to formerly abducted women. (Uganda/US, 54 min) SUN OCT 19 4:20 PM SU-ANNENBERG

SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW STUMPED THE SUPREME PRICE DIR: Jean-Nicolas Orhon DIR/PROD: Robin Berghaus DIR/PROD: Joanna Lipper PROD: Christine Falco When a filmmaker suddenly finds himself a The film traces the evolution of the Pro-Democ- Today, one person in six lives in a slum, a squat, quadrilateral amputee, he adapts to a world he racy Movement in Nigeria and efforts to increase or any other precarious dwelling. Slums: Cities never could have imagined, and finds a new cre- the participation of women in leadership roles. of Tomorrow takes us on a human and aesthetic ative outlet in stand-up comedy. (US, 10 min) Following the annulment of her father’s victory journey across the continents: in Mumbai, India, SAT OCT 25 8:20 PM PA-CUBBERLEY in Nigeria’s Presidential Election and her mother’s home of the largest slum in all of Asia; in Rabat, assassination by agents of the military dictator- Morocco, on what was once fertile farmland; in ship, Hafsat Abiola faces the challenge of trans- a tent city in Lakewood, New Jersey; in a trailer forming a corrupt culture of governance into district in Marseille, France; and in the native a democracy capable of serving Nigeria’s most community of Kitcisakik, Quebec. (Brazil/Canada/ marginalized population: women. France/India/Morocco/Turkey/US, 81 min) (Nigeria/US, 75 min) WED OCT 22 4:30 PM SU-CERAS SUN OCT 19 7:45 PM SU-ANNENBERG

THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOG- TO KILL A SPARROW TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR RAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE DIR/PROD: Zohreh Soleimani DIR/PROD: Jim Goldblum, Adam Weber DIR: Thomas Allen Harris Producer: Sharon Tiller PROD: Thomas Allen Harris, Ann Bennett, Deborah Kathputli is a place of fading traditions. For half Willis, Don Perry Today, there are over 800 young Afghan women a century 2,800 artist families have called its nar- imprisoned for so-called ‘moral crimes.’ This is the row alleyways home; there are jugglers and ac- This film explores how African American commu- story of one of these women. When Soheila was robats, puppeteers and painters, folk singers and nities have used the camera as a tool for social only five, she was given away in marriage to an magicians. In 2009 the New Delhi government change from the invention of photography to the old man in compensation for her older brother’s sold Kathputli to developers for a fraction of its present. This epic tale poetically moves between crime: stealing his young third wife. When she worth. The land is to be bulldozed to make room the present and the past, through contemporary ran away from the abusive marriage, her father for the city’s first-ever skyscraper, The Raheja photographers and artists whose images and sto- had her arrested and imprisoned. Phoenix. (India/US, 82 min) ries seek to reconcile legacies of pride and shame (Afghanistan, 26 min) WED OCT 22 7:30 PM SU-CERAS while giving voice to images long suppressed, for- MON OCT 20 4:00 PM SU-CERAS gotten and hidden from sight. (US, 84 min) FRI OCT 24 4:10 PM PA-PALY 9 THURSDAY 10.16 FRIDAY 10.17 SATURDAY 10.18 Palo Alto, Aquarius Theatre Palo Alto, Aquarius Theatre Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium 430 Emerson Street 430 Emerson Street Cummings Art Building, 435 Lasuen Mall

Session 1 (FREE Admission) Session 2 Session 5 6:45 pm Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, UNAFF & Kids Program (FREE admission) 1:00 pm MARSHLAND DREAMS (Iraq/US, 7 min) Nancy Shepherd 11:15 pm YOUNG VOICES FOR THE PLANET: KIDS 1:15 pm WRENCHED (US, 93 min) 7:00 pm MARIA OF MANY (US, 4 min) VS. GLOBAL WARMING (US, 5 min) 7:10 pm JESUS WAS A COMMIE (US, 15 min) 11:25 pm DRY SEASON (US, 8 min) Session 6 7:30 pm KING’S POINT (US, 31 min) 11:40 pm IT’S UP TO YOU (Norway, 15 min) 3:00 pm THE PAD PIPER (India/Japan, 52 min) 8:10 pm TRASHED (China/Indonesia/Lebanon/ 12:00 pm BAREFOOT (Mexico, 40 min) 4:00 pm DISRUPTION Turkey/UK/US, 97 min) (Brazil/Colombia/Peru/US, 85 min) Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium Cummings Art Building, 435 Lasuen Mall Session 7 Session 3 5:45 pm ALUMBRONES (Brazil/Cuba/US, 72 min) 6:00 pm PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF 7:00 pm TRUE SON (US, 71 min) PRIVATE JACK HALL (US, 40 min) 6:50 pm THE LAST SEASON (US, 78 min) Session 8 8:30 pm THE APOTHECARY (US, 18 min) Session 4 9:00 pm REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG 8:30 pm DRONES IN MY BACKYARD (US, 13 min) (US, 98 min) 8:50 pm THE LAST BATTLE (Kenya/UK, 47 min) 9:50 pm THE KILL TEAM (Afghanistan/US, 79 min)

WEDNESDAY 10.22 WEDNESDAY 10.22 THURSDAY 10.23 East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory Stanford University, School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford Medical School School, Eastside Theater, 1041 Myrtle Street CERAS Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 291 Campus Drive, Room LK120 Session 17 Session19 UNAFF In Schools Program 4:00 pm BROKEN CITY POETS (US, 30 min) Session 21 (all screenings FREE for students and teachers) 4:30 pm SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW (Brazil/ 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers 3:00 pm MESTIZO (US, 10 min) Canada/France/India/Morocco/Turkey/ 7:00 pm LIGHT AND DARK (US, 10 min) 3:15 pm DANCE UP FROM THE STREET US, 81 min) 7:20 pm SLOMO (US, 18 min) (Rwanda/South Africa, 28 min) 7:45 pm RUNNING FROM CRAZY(US, 101 min) 3:50 pm G-DOG (US, 92 min) Session 20 9:20 pm Panel “The Stigma of Depression” 5:30 pm Panel “The Faces of Altruism” 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers (FREE Admission) (FREE Admission) 7:00 pm WHITE EARTH (US, 20 min) 7:30 pm TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR San Francisco, Ninth Street Independent Film (India/US, 82 min) Center, 145 Ninth Street 9:00 pm Panel “Liberty and Inequality” Session 18 (FREE Admission) 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers 7:00 pm COUNTING THE DEAD (US, 7 min) 7:10 pm THE FORGOTTEN (Mexico/US, 14 min) 7:40 pm THE MURAL (US, 20 min) 8:05 pm HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH (Guatemala/Mexico/US, 98 min) 9:40 pm Panel: “The Destructions of Cultures and The Environment” (FREE Admission)

10 SCHEDULE SUNDAY 10.19 MONDAY 10.20 TUESDAY 10.21 Stanford University, Annenberg Auditorium Stanford University, School of Education, Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for Cummings Art Building, 435 Lasuen Mall CERAS Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall International Studies, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street

Session 9 Session 13 Session 15 1:00 pm FAMILIES ARE FOREVER (US, 21 min) 4:00 pm TO KILL A SPARROW 4:00 pm FACING FEAR (US, 23 min) 1:30 pm IT ALL STARTED WITH MOM (Afghanistan, 26 min) 4:30 pm KILLING HER IS A TICKET TO PARADISE (US, 24 min) 4:40 pm I AM A GIRL (Afghanistan/Australia/ (Yemen, 56 min) 2:10 pm LIBYA, THE MIGRANT TRAP Cambodia/Cameroon/Papua New 5:30 pm Panel “Fear and Compassion - Gender, (France/Libya, 26 min) Guinea, 88 min) Race and Religion” (FREE Admission)

Session 10 Session 14 Session 16 2:20 pm THE BOX (US, 6 min) 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers 2:30 pm IN THE WAKE OF STALIN 7:00 pm A CIVIL REMEDY (US, 24 min) 7:00 pm MATTHIEU RICARD, ON THE PATH TO (France/Russia, 91 min) 7:30 pm BRAVE MISS WORLD (Israel/US, 88 min) COMPASSION 9:00 pm Panel “Trafficking, Rape and Modern (Bhutan/France/Nepal, 52 min) Session 11 Slavery” (FREE Admission) 8:00 pm FREEDOM SUMMER (US, 113 min) 4:20 pm SEWING HOPE (Uganda/US, 54 min) 5:30 pm BASTARDS (Morocco/UK, 83 min)

Session 12 7:45 pm THE SUPREME PRICE (Nigeria/US, 75 min) 9:10 pm AFTER TILLER (US, 88 min)

FRIDAY 10.24 SATURDAY 10.25 SUNDAY 10.26 Palo Alto, Palo Alto High School’s Media Arts Center, Palo Alto, Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, Cubberley Community Center, 50 Embarcadero Road 4000 Middlefield Road 4000 Middlefield Road

Session 22 Session 24 Session 28 4:00 pm LANGUAGES IN SURVIVAL: MENIK 1:00 am GENERATION Z: CHILD SOLDIERS OF 2:00 pm PAKISTAN’S HIDDEN SHAME (Senegal, 6 min) THE ZETAS (Mexico/US, 30 min) (Pakistan/UK, 47 min) 4:10 pm THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK 1:40 am THE WILD YEARS 3:00 pm JFK: A PRESIDENT BETRAYED PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE (Ethiopia/Spain, 70 min) (Austria/Germany/Russia/US, 90 min) OF A PEOPLE (US, 84 min) 5:50 pm PM Panel “Dialogue Through Arts and Session 25 Session 29 Culture” (FREE Admission) 3:10 pm IN PLAIN SIGHT 4:45 pm THE GOLD SPINNERS (Estonia, 73 min) (Ghana/India/Nepal/US, 54 min) 6:00 pm THE E-WASTE TRAGEDY Session 23 4:20 pm MY STOLEN REVOLUTION (China/Ghana/Spain, 86 min) 6:30 pm Reception with the filmmakers (Iran/Norway/Sweden/UK, 75 min) 7:00 pm ANGEL AZUL (Mexico/US, 71 min) Session 30 8:30 pm THE BAREFOOT ARTIST Session 26 7:30 pm A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND (China/Kenya/Rwanda/US, 83 min) 5:40 pm GROWING HOME (Syria/US, 22 min) (Israel/Palestine/US, 79 min) 6:10 pm RED LINES (Syria/US, 99 min) 9:00 pm Awards Ceremony 9:30 pm Closing Night Party Session 27 Closing Night sponsored by Garden Court Hotel; 8:20 pm STUMPED (US, 10 min) music by Potential Jazz Ensemble 8:50 pm WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE THE FILM (China/US, 30 min) 9:30 pm VALENTINO’S GHOST (US, 96 min)

Please see page 19 for a list of venues.

11 TRASHED TRUE SON VALENTINO’S GHOST DIR: Candida Brady DIR: Kevin Gordon DIR: Michael Singh PROD: Candida Brady, Titus Ogilvy PROD: Jhanvi Shriram, Ketaki Shriram PROD: Catherine Jordan, Michael Singh

TRASHED, follows Academy Award-winner Jer- This film shows twenty-two-year-old Stanford Actor Mike Farrell narrates this tale of comedy, emy Irons on a world tour as he discovers the graduate Michael Tubbs’ campaign for a seat terror, media and ‘the Arab.’ Film takes viewers pressing issues surrounding waste and sustain- on Stockton city council during a year of record on a journey through images of Muslims and Ar- ability. Vast landscapes in China are covered in homicides and impending bankruptcy. For Mi- abs in American popular culture. Where do the tons of rubbish. The wide waters of the Ciliwung chael Tubbs, a Stockton native born to a teenage images come from? How do they relate to US River in Indonesia are now barely visible under mother and incarcerated father, engaging with foreign policy needs? The image shifted from a never-ending tide of plastic. Children swim youth is crucial to solving Stockton’s problems. the beautiful Arab of Valentino’s The Sheik, to among leaking bags; mothers wash in the sew- (US, 71 min) the embodiment of Evil today. (US, 96 min) age-filled supply. SAT OCT 18 7:00 PM SU-ANNENBERG SAT OCT 25 9:30 PM PA-CUBBERLEY (China/Indonesia/Lebanon/UK/US, 97 min) THU OCT 16 8:10 PM PA-AQUARIUS

WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE THE FILM WHITE EARTH THE WILD YEARS DIR/PROD: Yijun He DIR/PROD: J. Christian Jensen DIR: Ventura Durall PROD: Ventura Durall, Marija Capek Largely due to censorship, many films, especially Set against the backdrop of a cruel North Dakota documentaries and independent films, can’t be re- winter, this a tale of an oil boom that has drawn In Addis Abeba, over 270,000 street kids live leased in China. But underground cinema clubs are thousands to America’s northern plains in search without their parents and almost forgotten by making independent films accessible to Chinese of work. Told from the perspective of three chil- law and society. Daniel, a boy from the coun- audience despite the all the risks. dren and an immigrant mother whose lives are tryside, is nine years old when he arrives in the (China/US, 30 min) touched by the oil boom, each story intertwines city. He meets Habtom and Yohannes, both aged SAT OCT 25 8:50 PM PA-CUBBERLEY with the others – often relying on the naive nar- twelve, who live in an abandoned car. They first ration of children to poetically explore themes of don’t want to accept him in their group they innocence, home, and the American Dream. eventually become friends. (US, 20 min) (Ethiopia/Spain, 70 min) WED OCT 22 7:00 PM SU-CERAS SAT OCT 25 1:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

WRENCHED YOUNG VOICES FOR THE PLANET: DIR: ML Lincoln KIDS VS. GLOBAL WARMING PROD: Vicki Day DIR/PROD: Lynne Cherry

This film reveals how Edward Abbey’s anarchistic Twelve-year-old Alec Loorz creates numerous spirit and riotous novels influenced and helped campaigns to try to stop climate change in his guide the nascent environmental movement lifetime. (US, 5 min) of the 70s and 80s. Through interviews, archival FRI OCT 17 11:15 AM PA-AQUARIUS footage and reenactments, this documentary captures the outrage of Abbey’s friends who were the original ecowarriors. (US, 93 min) SAT OCT 18 1:15 PM SU-ANNENBERG

12 A Program of The United Nations Foundation

UNA MIDPENINSULA UNA Midpeninsula Chapter serves as a link Tools for Positive Aging between the community and the United Na- Avenidas offers peace of mind for older adults: tions by promoting awareness of world is- Transportation Assistance sues and the UN global agenda through film Handyman Services screenings, public forums, newsletters, web Health & Wellness Programs site, and Information Center. Lifelong Learning & Leisure Offerings Volunteer Opportunities Our volunteer-run store, a treasure trove of Social Work Services Adult Day Health Care international gift items, supports fair trade Aging-In-Place Support for local craftsmen all over the world. Call (650) 289-5400 or visit www.avenidas.org. UNA MIDPENINSULA GIFT STORE AND INFORMATION CENTER 552 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 Avenidas is proud to support the 17th UNAFF and 650 326 3170 • www.unamidpen.org the 8th UNAFF for Seniors year-round program.

13 AFTER TILLER DRONES IN MY BACKYARD e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.aftertilermovie.com w: www.snitow-kaufman.org

ALUMBRONES DRY SEASON continues throughout the academic e: [email protected] e: [email protected] year bringing award-winning docu- w: www.alumbrones.com mentaries, film makers and speakers THE E-WASTE TRAGEDY to Stanford in the classroom and ANGEL AZUL e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.yuzu-productions.com/EN/ special events. If you are interested w: www.angelazulthemovie.com ewaste_en/index_en.html in having docs through the CAW Program at your event or in your THE APOTHECARY FACING FEAR e: [email protected] e: [email protected] dorm, please email: [email protected]. w: www.nutshellproductions.com/ w: www.facingfearmovie.com THE-APOTHECARY FAMILIES ARE FOREVER BAREFOOT e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: familyproject.sfsu.edu w: www.descalzosfilm.com THE FORGOTTEN THE BAREFOOT ARTIST e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.losolvidadosfilm.com w: www.barefootartistmovie.com FREEDOM SUMMER BASTARDS e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.firelightmedia.tv/project/ w: www.deborahperkin.com/bastards freedom-summer

THE BOX G-DOG e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.cironline.org/reports/ w: www.gdogthemovie.com Encouraged by overwhelmingly posi- the-box-6137 tive response from our audience and GENERATION Z: CHILD SOLDIERS OF the media, we continue with year BRAVE MISS WORLD THE ZETAS e: [email protected] e: [email protected] round screenings through our UNAFF w: www.bravemissworld.com w: www.cironline.org Traveling Film Festival, which has taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, BROKEN CITY POETS THE GOLD SPINNERS e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, w: www.cironline.org Saratoga, Sonoma, Sebastopol, San GROWING HOME Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt A CIVIL REMEDY e: [email protected] Lake City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, e: [email protected] w: www.filmandlaw.com HEART OF SKY, HEART OF EARTH Chicago, Washington DC, New York, e: [email protected] Burlington, Bellevue, Miami, La COUNTING THE DEAD w: www.umbrellafilms.org/en/heart-of-sky Crosse, Fryeburg, Houston, Durham e: [email protected] www.facebook.com/ at Duke University, New Haven at Yale heartofskyheartofearth DANCE UP FROM THE STREET University, Waukesha at University of e: [email protected] I AM A GIRL Wisconsin, Boston and Cambridge at e: [email protected] Harvard University and international- DISRUPTION w: www.wmm.com ly in Paris, Venice, Belgrade, Phnom e: [email protected] w: www.skylightpictures.com\ Penh and Abu Dhabi. For more details please check: www.unaff.org (Traveling Film Festival page) or contact us at [email protected]

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IN PLAIN SIGHT MATTHIEU RICARD, ON THE PATH TO STUMPED e: [email protected] COMPASSION e: [email protected] w: www.inplainsightmovie.com e: [email protected] w: www.stumpedthemovie.com w: www.widehouse.org/film/ IN THE WAKE OF STALIN matthieu-ricard-on-the-path-to-compas- THE SUPREME PRICE e: [email protected] sion e: [email protected] w: www.wmm.com IT ALL STARTED WITH MOM MESTIZO e: [email protected] e: [email protected] THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK w: www.facebook.com/ PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE ItAllStartedWithMom THE MURAL OF A PEOPLE e: [email protected] e: [email protected] IT’S UP TO YOU w: www.themural.org w: www.1world1family.me e: [email protected] www.free-rangepuppies.com w: www.norwegianfilms.no TO KILL A SPARROW MY STOLEN REVOLUTION e: [email protected] JESUS WAS A COMMIE e: [email protected] w: www.zsoleimani.com/film e: [email protected] w: www.wmm.com w: www.jesuswasacommiefilm.com TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR THE PAD PIPER e: [email protected] JFK: A PRESIDENT BETRAYED e: [email protected] w: www.twdfilm.com e: [email protected] w: www.jfkapresidentbetrayed.org PAKISTAN’S HIDDEN SHAME TRASHED e: [email protected] e: [email protected] THE KILL TEAM w: www.clover-films.com w: www.trashedfilm.com e: [email protected] w: www.oscilloscope.net A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND TRUE SON e: [email protected] e: [email protected] KILLING HER IS A TICKET TO PARADISE w: www.withoutaland.com w: www.truesondoc.com e: [email protected] PRISON TERMINAL: THE LAST DAYS OF VALENTINO’S GHOST KING’S POINT PRIVATE JACK HALL e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.wmm.com w: www.prisonterminal.com w: www.valentinosghost.com

LANGUAGES IN SURVIVAL: MENIK RED LINES WHEN YOU CAN’T SEE THE FILM e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.redlinesfilm.com THE LAST BATTLE WHITE EARTH e: [email protected] REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.jchristianjensen.com/projects/ THE LAST SEASON w: www.sontagfilm.org white-earth e: [email protected] w: www.thelastseasonfilm.com RUNNING FROM CRAZY THE WILD YEARS e: [email protected] e: [email protected] LIBYA, THE MIGRANT TRAP w: http://www.cabincreekfilms.com/tv_ w: www.nanouk.tv/en/the-wild-years e: [email protected] RunningFromCrazy.html WRENCHED LIGHT AND DARK SEWING HOPE e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.wrenched-themovie.com w: www.sewinghope.com MARIA OF MANY YOUNG VOICES FOR THE PLANET: KIDS e: [email protected] SLOMO VS. GLOBAL WARMING e: [email protected] e: [email protected] MARSHLAND DREAMS w: www.slomothemovie.com w: www.youngvoicesonclimatechange.com e: [email protected] w: www.mvfg.com SLUMS: CITIES OF TOMORROW e: [email protected]

15 SPONSORS PLATINUM

The George & Judy Marcus Family Foundation

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BRONZE GOLD Avenidas Senior Center California World Language Project Coupa Cafe Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages Douce France Garthwait & Griffin Films Landmark Theaters Mediterranean Wraps SILVER MFA Program in Documentary Film and Video The Reis Foundation, Inc. Sak n’ Sak Founded by L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis San Mateo County Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Dick Bogard and Stanford Student Enterprises Iris Fraser Vanda Kownacki Trader Joe’s UNA Midpeninsula Chapter UNA San Francisco Chapter

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17 SPECIAL THANKS TO

Karen Adams Amrita Grover Elliot Margolies Iva Sijan Terry Andre Corliss Hartge Tracy C. McCloud Gail Silva Linda Arrillaga Cliff Hayashi Betty Meissner Marty Simmons Jonathan Berger Stephen Hinton MJ Mont-Reynaud Harleen Singh Joanie Berry Kathy Holly Norman Naimak Nisha Singh Helen and Peter Bing Karen How Jerome Nelson Amanda Smith Chris Bischof Joshua Hurst Stephen Nemeth Paula and Steve Smith Coit Blacker Priya Jadeja Julie Noblitt Helen Stacy Dick Bogard and Iris Fraser Christopher Lance Jenkins Jesse Norfleet Stephen J. Stedman Tricia Brazil Pitch Johnson Peggy Nute Suzan Swabacker Marie Bridgham Carolyn Karr Catherine O’Brien Matthew Tiews Pat Burt Ashraf Khan Deborah Farrington Padilla Tamara Turner Flavia Cassani Sophie Kim Sylvia Paret Anil Vasudev Martin Carnoy Yoriko Kishimoto Nicki and Joe Parisi Jane Wales Priya Chandraker Amelia Kolokihakaufisi Tara Peattie Hannah Waleh Beth Charlesworth Shelly Kosak Amy Peruzzaro Dave Walter Priscilla and Martin Connelly Wanda Kownacki Alina Predescu Judith Webb Michele Chandler Jan Krawitz Qinghui Ji Regina and Gregory Weingarten David D’Arcy Dawn Kwan Priscilla Reagan Chris Whatley David Demarest Tara Kyle Katie Rentzke Maggie Wilde Roberta and Steve Denning Karen Larsen David Rock Ali Williams Bill Dimitri Kelly Michelle Lacob Susan Rohani John Williams Dale Djerassi Joshua Lasell Perryn Reis Rowland Bryan Wolf Robin Gartwait Marina Latu Laarni von Ruden Stacy Wood George Geevargis Mireille Le Breton Jacque Rupp Sura Wood Dianne Giancarlo Michael Levin Robert Russell Marcia Yoon-Yeates Robert Glover Catherine Little Kristine Samuelson Helen Young Megan Gorman Chao Long Pat Sanders Patience Young Dan Griffin Linda Lopez Diane and John Savage Dianna Zupp Dianne Griffin Judy and George Marcus

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18 VENUES Venue abbreviations are shown after the date/time in the A-Z Films, pp. 3–9 and 12.

PA-AQUARIUS Aquarius Theatre SU-ANNENBERG 430 Emerson Street Annenberg Auditorium Palo Alto, CA 94301 Cummings Art Building 435 Lasuen Mall PA-PALY Palo Alto High School Media Arts Center SU-CERAS 50 Embarcadero Road School of Education PALO ALTO (PA) Palo Alto, CA 94301 STANFORD CERAS Building, Room 101 EAST PALO ALTO (EPA) 520 Galvez Mall PA-CUBBERLEY UNIVERSITY (SU) AND Cubberley Community Center SU- ENCINA HALL City of Palo Alto VENUES Freeman Spogli Institute for 4000 Middlefield Road International Studies SAN FRANCISCO (SF) Palo Alto, CA 94303 Encina Hall VENUES 616 Serra Street EPA-EASTSIDE Eastside College Prepatory School Theatre SU- MEDICAL SCHOOL 1041 Myrtle Street Stanford Medical School East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Li Ka Shing Center Building Room LK130 SF-NINTH STREET 291 Campus Drive Ninth Street Independent Film Center 145 9th Street San Francisco, CA 94103

17th UNAFF Headquarters at the Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Headquarter hours: 1:00PM to 6:00PM (contact person Karen How [email protected])

Arts Institute IMAGINING [ Exhibitions • Performances • Public Conversations • Courses ] THE UNIVERSE COSMOLOGY IN ART AND SCIENCE

Beginning October 2014 at Stanford University, scientists, artists, & humanists will join forces on a variety of stages to explore the nature of the universe.

SNEAK PEEK: Poet Tracy K. Smith kicks the series o– in October [10.28.14] followed by NASA astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison [12.3.14]. Holst’s The Planets will be performed in Bing Concert Hall by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra [1.14.15 / 1.15.15].

Illustration by Victoria Flores

For full calendar of events and details, visit: artsinstitute.stanford.edu/UNIVERSE #ImagineatStanford

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