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3 LETTER FROM THE MAYOR 4 LEnERS FROM THE AAFF PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 5 FESTIVAL CONTRIBUTORS AND IN-KIND DONORS 6 FESTIVAL STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS 7 AWARDS JURY 8 THE AWARDS 9 OVERVIEW MAIN THEATER 10 OVERVIEW SCREENING ROOM 11 PROGRAM OF FILMS 23 PRINT SOURCES 24 SPECIAL EVENTS AND AFTER PARTIES 25 MEMBERSHIP FORM
2 LETTER FROM THE MAYOR
s the mayor of Ann Arbor, I warmly part of the reward is that every year, Awelcome you to the 44th Ann Arbor artists and filmmakers come for one Film Festival. A great cultural tradition in week in March to share their images, the grand Michigan Theater, the Festival ideas and thoughts with both young is known far and wide as one of the and old, in a stimulating environment finest American venues for innovative that is our home. filmmaking and storytelling. As the oldest festival of its kind, the Ann Arbor is a city that takes great Ann Arbor Film Festival remains pride in the arts and in fostering a vibrant cultural tradition in our civic dialogue that stimulates the city, highlighting this community's growth of the community and dedication to creative dialogue individual alike. Through the years, and the art of the moving image. the Ann Arbor Film Festival has been a key thread in the cultural For 44 years, the Festival has fabric of our city. supported and promoted diverse film artists whom have played Thank you for joining us for the 44th pivotal roles in the field, including festival, and enjoy the show! Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol and Gus Van Santo Sincerely, Equally impressive is the steadfast commitment of Ann Arbor's own artists JOHN HIEFTJE andvolunteers,whoeachyearcontribute MAYOR OF ANN ARBOR their work, art and time to present this marvelous community event. A great 3 LETTER FROM JAY NELSON LETTER FROM CHRISTEN MCARDLE AAFF PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Dear Festival-goers, Hello Ann Arbor,
To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reports of the I'd like to welcome you to the 44th Ann Arbor demise of the Ann Arbor Film Festival have Film Festival. and thank you for welcoming been greatly exaggerated. You may have me to your community. It has been a heard rumors or read in some newspapers pleasure to get to know this fine city for the that the AAFF was going out of business or was last six months. abandoning its mission but, fortunately, neither is true. If there is one aspect of the AAFF experience that I have consistently recognized and appreciated, it is the undying love that Ann In fact. just this past summer, the Festival's Board Arbor has for the arts, and for ANYTHING that of Directors agreed unanimously to reaffirm pushes the envelope, whether it is artistic, our mission of supporting and promoting political or even theoretical. Ann Arbor is a experimental and independent film. If anything, community that likes to think, be challenged our goals are to expand on that mission and and celebrate life. Your awareness for do more to support filmmakers beyond having the unconventional is keen, and your a six-day festival every spring. And, while some appreciation for countercultures is valiant; may question the decision we made three years and it has affected me in a profound way. ago to open up the Festival to video and digital media in addition to 16mm film, we felt that it Being originally from the Midwest, I am was entirely in keeping with the spirit of the AAFF thankful for Ann Arbor's influence, and I am - in 1963 when the Festival was founded, 16mm film was the preferred format for relieved that such a diverse place exists in the Midwest. We live in transitional times, filmmakers on a budget, but today, few can afford it and have opted to work on and are faced with adjustments and adaptations that force us to evaluate our video and digital media instead. values and priorities at all hours of the day. We are bombarded with multi-media, extreme politics, corporate saturation and pop culture. I will openly admit that I With far more films to choose from, the decision greatly enhanced our on-screen worry about the future of our Americana - our culture and folklore, and our role offerings. But it was good for our finances as well - submissions and submission fees and influence in the world - and I know I'm not the only one ... Ann Arbor is a place have nearly quintupled in the last three years. where everyone fearlessly fights for what they believe in, and perpetually finds ways to express their beliefs. Not every place in the world has such imperative liberties available. As a result of that and other strategies, the Festival is healthier financially than it's been in quite some time. But. like virtually every small non-profit arts organization in So this week, I hope you will join us in a celebration of everything that lives and Michigan, we've faced cutbacks in government and foundation grants - becoming thrives outside of the box. There is so much to be grateful for in regards to the Ann a member of the AAFF is now more important than ever - that continue to Arbor Film Festival. Never have I seen an institution that allows so much creative challenge us as we work to ensure that the Festival will continue to grow and thrive freedom, or a community that embraces creativity so intensely. Look around and in the years to come. commend yourselves, because you exemplity the strongest element of the human spirit - free-wheeling and thoughtful artistic expression. A key part of that effort is the team we now have in place to oversee it. Our Festival Director, Christen McArdle, and Director of Operations, Nate Heilman, are smart. This festival was created to ensure that there was a forum that was an alternative talented and hard-working people who have great plans and ideas for the AAFF to mainstream media. We strive to support the artists, and we celebrate film as an and we as a board feel lucky to have them. art, not just as entertainment. As we tip our hats to the many talented filmmakers this week and party together 'til the wee hours of the morning (uh-oh), I hope you Finally, I'd like to thank all of our friends, volunteers and supporters - we literally could remember that this festival is a celebration of differences and of diversity. At the not function without them. Thanks especially to our friends at the Michigan Theater AAFF. we can witness and support the lives of others in hidden corners of the world, who've been so generous with their advice, time and support. We really are in this and we can observe and appreciate artistic expression that has no boundaries. together. That kind of open-mindedness is rare, and I am grateful to know how passionate All of us on the board hope that you'll enjoy this year's Ann Arbor Film Festival. you are about all of it. This festival is yours Ann Arbor, and I thank you for helping this important celebration thrive. Thanks for coming. Cheers to you,
JAY NELSON CHRISTEN MCARDLE PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 4 FESTIVAL CONTRIBUTORS AND IN-KIND DONORS
SPONSORSHIP Frames Unlimited /aut/ bar Heidi Kumao PRIZE DONORS Heavenly Metal Great Harvest Bread Company Holly Hughes Avid Technology Kilwin's Chocolate Shoppe NYPD Homer Rose S3,OOO Beaner's Gourmet Coffee Krazy Jim's Blimpy Burgers People's Food Co-op Janet Lockwood Ken Burns/Florentine Films Kodak Mainstreet Ventures Pizzolato Jay Nelson Thad & Pam Johnson/Streetlamp Studios Michigan Television Michigan Theater Zingerman's Deli Jeff Kass SEE - Selective Eyewear Elements Mr. Spot's Jenn McKee S1.7OO State Street Area Association Nicola's Books PROGRAM BOOK ADVERTISERS John HieftJe Avid Technology Streetlamp Studios Orchid Lane Josh Williams Whole Foods Peaceable Kingdom Ann Arbor Fireplace & Barbeque Katherine Welder Sl,500 Performance Network Arbor Brewing Company Kay Seaser The 630 Club' GRANTING AGENCIES Prickly Pear Southwest Cafe Avid Technology Keith Jefferies The Detroit Film Center Seva Restaurant Bank of Ann Arbor Keith Orr Film Craft Lab/Kodak City of Ann Arbor Sixteen Hands Beaners Gourmet Coffee Ken Bawcom Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural SweetU Bank of Ann Arbor Laura Barnes Sl,200 Affairs Target Detroit Film Center Lee Berry Palmer Morrel-Samuels/EMPA National Endowment for the Arts Three Chairs Company DigitalOps Lady Dreyer Trader Joe's Downtown Development Authority Louis Kerman Sl,OOO OUT NIGHT DONATION UMS-Universlty Musical Society Future Brands Lindsey Bernard The DeVarti Family Washtenaw Dairy Great Harvest Bread Company Liz Cole Lawrence & Mary Ellen Kasdan Aut Bar Hollywood Can Suck It I Lynn Steadman Judy Kazis/The Tom Berman Award, Inc, Arts at Michigan's Course Connections AFTERHOURS SALONS Hudson & Muma Mark Brown Michael Moore Avincis Corp Improv Inferno Martin Bandyke Gus Van So nt/Wendy Foundation AV Consulting Bobs Underground LaSalle Bank Martin Contreras Bob Snyder Davy & Peter Rothbart Lost Film Festival Mary Cronin S500 Chuck Korson Firefiy Club People's Food Coop Meghann Powell Between The Lines Common Language Bookstore Improv Inferno Relaxation Station Michael Welch Griot Editorial Greg Johnson Realtor Pepperz Saturn of Ann Arbor Mom & Dad Michigan Vue Magazine HARC SEE - Selective Eyewear Elements Myrna Rugg Mid America Cine Support James Toy ENTERTAINMENT Select Auto Service Nancy Keough Tios Restaurant Rockham Graduate School StreetLamp Studios Newcombe Clark Ronald Baumanis Los Gatos Verizon Wireless Nick Tobier S300 Stamps/Witt/School of Art and Design New Jazz Trio Whole Foods Olga Bilakos LaBour Foundation for Non-Instutional Strategic Computer Solutions Ypsilanti Marnot Palmer Morris-Samuels living Todd Mundt INSTALLATION ARTISTS Zingerman's Peter Bilakos Trillium Real Estate Peter Rothbart S250 WRAP Alison Byrnes THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT, Rayno Stowe Denny Hayes Anna Perricci ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSPIRATION Richard Kerr Arbor Springs Passing Water Award IN-KIND DONORS Brent Fogt Russ Collins Susan Warner Forest Bright Abina Manning Sam Rienstra Adrian's Screenprinting Gaby Harp Adam Hunt Sam Valenti S200 Ann Arbor Radio Sara Holwerda Adrienne Goloda Scott Beibin Matthew Graff & Leslie Lawther Arbor Brewing Company Thea Eck Alfonso Alvarez Sekou Tho Misfit Walter Spiller Beaners Toby Millman Alison LaTendresse Seripop Cynthia Greig & Richard Smith Bivouac The Funambulists Alison Byrnes Shaman Drum Bookstore Susan Wineberg & Lars Bjorn DigitalOps Andre Grewe Shannon Brown George Fisher & Karl Magil Downtown Development Authority JUDGES MEALS Andrea Maio Shoun Williams Future Brands Anvil Stephanie Wooten Grace & Wild Studios Angelo's Restaurant Aric Knuth Steve Bergman GreenstreetTree Care BD's Mongolian BBQ Bruce Baker Steve Connell S150 Kennedy Associates, Inc, Red Hawk Bryan Rogers Susan Bellinson Barry M, Miller ProHub Productions Seva Restaurant Bryan Wendorf Susan Chastain Michigan Psychoanalytic SOCiety Rogow & Loney, Pc. Zanzibar Carrie Cecchini Suzanne Gromofsky Saturn of Ann Arbor Carrie Morris Tara McComb S100 TicketWeb OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION Be JUDGES Chrisstina Hamilton Ted Kennedy John Nelson Toledo City Paper BRUNCH College of Creative Studies Terri Sarris John B, Caldwell & Susan V. Kalinowski U of M School of Art & DeSign IT Dept, Constance Crump Thad & Pam Johnson Dan Gunning Verizon Barry's Bagels Crystal Kusiak Tom Bray KFJC - FM Weber's Inn Bella Ciao Dan Marano Todd Mundt Zanzibar Creekside Danni Niemeyer Trevor Stone S75 Dexter's Pub The DiVarti Family U of M School of Art & DeSign Vicki Engel AUDIENCE AWARD GIFT BASKET Katherine's Catering David Mims Vicki Honeyman Lulu's Cafe David Dinnell Willie Northway Acme Mercantile Metzger's German Restaurant Davy Rothbart Work Gallery 'Thank you to PfIzer for their matching gift Atlanta Bread Company Romano's Macaroni Grill Deanna Morse fund, Aunt Agatha's Bookstore Say Cheese Cheesecake Bakery Denny Hayes Bell's Pizzo Stucchi's Ice Cream Ellyn Emsley Beyond the Wall The Polo Fields Golf and Country Club Erica Briggs Busch's Ernie Estrella Dogma/Catmantoo SCREENER FOOD Garrett Mims Fleetwood Diner George Manupelli Found Magazine Arbor Brewing Company Gerry Fialka
THE AWARDS
THE KEN BURNS BEST OF THE This annual award for the best of working conditions and honor of the many independent technical position possible. Based FESTIVAL AWARD S3,000 narrative film is endowed by profitability. filmmakers who have contributed on his passion for lighting he Mr. Kasdan and is intended to to the success of Grace & Wild 's eventually chose a career as This top festival award was recognize works which make use TOM BERMAN AWARD MOST lab division, Film Craft Lab, over the lighting director. This memorial established to recognize of the film medium's unique ability PROMISING FILMMAKER Sl,OOO last 25 years. award recognizes the most the filmmaker with the most to convey striking and original creative use of lighting in a film outstanding entry. The award stories. Tom Berman was a UniverSity BETWEEN THE LINES AWARD BEST in which mood and atmosphere honors the film that best of Michigan film student and GAY /LESBIAN FILM S500 of the environment are greatly represents the artistic and creative MICHAEL MOORE AWARD BEST an early supporter and close enhanced through lighting design. standards of the festival. The DOCUMENTARY FILM Sl ,OOO friend of the festival. His brilliant This annual award is sponsored award is sponsored by reknowned early films won many awards. by Pride Source Media Group, for TlO'S RED HOT & SPICY AWARD documentary filmmaker Ken Documentary filmmaker Michael This annual award, endowed the film that promotes diversity S500 Burns, a graduate of Ann Arbor's Moore is giving back to the festival by the Berman family, is given in and excellence in filmmaking. This Pioneer High School. The Ann what he received in inspiration Tom 's memory and is intended to award honors the film that best Ann Arbor's Tios Restaurant has Arbor community is proud to have from the hundreds of films he's support a young filmmaker that deals with gay/lesbian issues. been serving up the spiciest salsa reared this influential cultural figure viewed over the years at the the Awards Jury expects will make around since 1987. Interpretation and patron of independent film. Ann Arbor Film Festival. Proceeds a significant contribution to the MICHIGAN VUE MAGAZINE of "red hot & spicy" is left to the from his film, Roger and Me, art of film in the course of his/her AWARD BEST MICHIGAN judges discretion in determining THE STREETLAMP STUDIOS fund this annual award for best filmmaking career. FILMMAKER S500 allocation of this award, which AUDIENCE AWARD S3,000 TOTAL, documentary film. can be given to any film, based on S500 DAILY PRIX DEVARTI FUNNIEST FILM This award is intended to form, content, or flavorl GRIOT EDITORIAL/ AVID $1.000 support and encourage the The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the TECHNOLOGY BEST EDITING local filmmaking community ISABELLA LIDDELL ART AWARD first festival to provide a daily AWARD S2,200 In honor of the 40-year friendship by rewarding excellence in a S200 Audience Award. The audience between Dominick's and the Ann Michigan-produced film within any votes for their favorite film within Griot Editorial. Grace & Wild's Arbor Film Festival. this award is genre. Sponsored by metro Detroit- This memorial award has been each day's films in competition. creative editorial boutique, and in memory of Dominick and Alice based Michigan Vue Magazine, created by six friends of Isabella The festival gives two Audience Avid Technology funds this annual DeVarti. The prize is awarded to the which is dedicated to promoting Liddell, who was a dear friend Awards on Saturday, due to award for excellence in the art funniest film in the festival. Michigan's film, video, and multi- and long-time supporter of the additional matinee screenings. of film editing. The awards jurors media production industry. festival, as well as a patron and Sponsored by Thad and Pam shall grant this prize to a single film VICKI HONEYMAN AWARD FOR practitioner of the arts. The award Johnson of Streetlamp Studios, this that demonstrates outstanding BEST 16MM FILM S375 DETROIT FILM CENTER AWARD is to be given to the film(s) that award provides an opportunity for creativity and technical S1500 best deals with women's issues. festival attendees to contribute to excellence in the art of motion During her 15 years as Festival our goal: to support the filmmaker. picture editing. The winner will Director, Vicki Honeyman remained For the past decade, The Detroit receive S500 from Griot Editorial, devoted to 16mm film. This award Film Center has provided vital PETER WILDE AWARD FOR MOST GUS VAN SANT BEST and a $ 1,700 "Express-Pro" editing honors her years of dedication center for the media arts through TECHNICALLY INNOVATIVE FILM EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARD kit from Avid Technology. and carries forward the legacy of educational courses, screenings, S250 $1.000 16mm. The award is intended for events, and low-cost equipment THE EMPA WORK LIFE AWARD the 16mm film that best embodies rentals. DFC members receive In memory of the festival's Gus Van Sant's film career began $1,200 the spirit of the films that rock her deep discounts on courses friend Peter Wilde, who cared in the early 80's, when he was world: technically challenging, and screenings, inform/)tion on passionately about the projected making short experimental films Granted to the film that best innovative, quirky and unique, with festivals and events, access to film image and was a technical wizard that were awarded at the Ann provides a witty and insightful a strong respect and passion for and multimedia equipment and and master of the makeshift. Arbor Film Festival. Mr. Van Sant is look at issues pertaining to film as an art form. much more. The award, which The award honors the film that endowing this award to honor the careers, employment, co- is intended for a Southeastern most respects the integrity of the film that best represents the use workers, the workplace, job KODAK/FILM CRAFT LAB AWARD Michigan based filmmaker, prOjected image. of experimental processes, forms, hunting. job responsibilities, or FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY provides the recipient $ 1,000 in and topiCS. the impact of employment on $1,500 OF FILM PLUS PROCESSING waived equipment rental fees plus HONORABLE MENTIONS $2,700 the individual's personal life. $500 towards educational courses LAWRENCE KASDAN AWARD BEST The film must be no more than Sl ,500 worth of 16mm or 35mm and workshops. Remaining prize monies that NARRATIVE FILM $ 1,000 25 minutes long. Employee film stock donated by Kodak, are distributed at the awards Motivation & Performance and the processing donated DOUG WANDREI AWARD BEST jurors' discretion as honorable The festival is honored to have the Assessment (SurveysForBusiness. by Film Craft Lab. For the film LIGHTING DESIGN S500 mentions to filmmakers deserving support of this popular filmmaker, com) sponsors this award as part that demonstrates the highest Doug Wand rei spent 50 years of recognition, support and who got his start in Ann Arbor of its ongoing commitment to excellence and creativity in working in the Detroit production encouragement. at the University of Michigan. the simultaneous improvement cinematography. Presented in industry, wearing the hat of every 8 OVERVIEW MAIN THEATER
WHO I AM AND WHAT I WANT KATA PRACTICE LISTEN AT THE QUINTE HOTEL
PREDICTIONS THE WHITE BUNNY NO GRAY TWILIGHT
IKUMA SIKU THREE SHORTS FOR SURINAME A LONG STRUGGLE
FINDING THE THIRD CIRCLE A BOY ON A DOCK BLOWING HIS NOSE LOT 63. GRAVE C
THE CONSUMERS ORDINARY LIVES NIGHT VISIONS
DEVIL'S CANYON
CAMJACKERS THE ALUMINUM FOWL
SPAM LETTER + GOOGLE IMAGE SEARCH = VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT
FRIDA VS FRIDA EL INMIGRANTE
A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
9 OVERVIEW SCREENING ROOM
AVID SEMINAR PANEL DISCUSSION MODERATED BY ALFONSO ALVAREZ
CURRATED WORKS AND JUROR PRESENTATION BY RICHARD PELL B.I.K.E. BY JACOB SEPTIMUS AND ANTONY HOWARD
THE WINKING CIRCLE BY BENNY ZENGA DISARMING THE AD BOMB A PROGRAM OF SOCIO-POLITICAL FILMS CURATED BY LESLIE DREYER WASSUP ROCKERS BY LARRY TERROR ALERT CLARK SPRING IN AWE
MADE IN SECRET: THE STORY OF THE EAST VAN PORN COLLECTIVE BY ONE TINY WHALE
CZECH DREAM BY VIT KLUSAK AND FILIP REMUNDA
AWARD CEREMONY AND SCREENINGS SUNDAY MAIN THEATER
2PM 5PM 5:30 PM 7 PM 9PM AUDIENCE AWARD AWARD CEREMONY AWARDED FILMS AWARDED FILMS AWARDED FILMS FILMS
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MEET THE FILMMAKERS PANEL DISCUSSIONS WITH DEANNA MORSE SHAMAN DRUM BOOKSTORE MICHIGAN THEATER LOBBY 4:30 PM 311-315 S.STATE STREET 2 PM OUT NIGHT CULTURE JAMMING and FILM: Media ecologist Gerry Fialka, will be AFTERGLOW joined by Scott Beibin (Lost Film Fest + Evil Twin Booking) as they host an interactive /AUT/ BAR discussion on culture jamming. Fialka and Beibin will probe and examine the actions 315 BRAUN COURT of some very clever subversive pranksters as they inftict brand damage to corporations 10 PM - 2 AM while exposing their manipulation of the mediascape. The theories of Morshall McLuhan's Laws of Media will be applied to the actions of these revolutionary ortists to ••••• LIVE PERFORMANCE examine their effectiveness and provide new critical perspectives with surprise, humor, BY THE WET SPOTS, the thri ll of transgression, and piefights. Featured will be discussion and rarely seen COMPOSERS OF THE footage of The Yes Men, Billboard Liberation Organization, Craig Baldwin, Bob Dobbs and SOUNDTRACK TO THE OUT NIGHT FILM, DO YOU TAKE IT? MEETTHE FILMMAKERS WITH DEANNA MORSE
LIVE MUSIC MICHIGAN THEATER LOBBY FIREFLY CLUB 4:30 PM
207 S. ASHLEY STREET KARAOKE FEST! 10 PM - 2 AM IMPROV INFERNO
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