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FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL FESTIVAL | MAY 1-3, 2020 www.greenwichfilm.org | @greenwichfilm #GIFF2020 ANNOUNCES THE JPMorgan Chase Audience Award The Ashforth Company Cast your vote for your favorite film at the 2020 Virtual Greenwich International FilmGreenwich Festival! International Film Festival | 19 Ashforth Greenwich Film Festival Print Ad.indd 1 4/18/19 12:02 PM DOCUMENTARY FILMS A PELOTON OF ONE BASTARDS’ ROAD BULLIED USA / 99 MINS USA / 98 MINS USA / 67 MINS A Peloton of One follows a Survivor of Childhood Like many Combat Veterans, transitioning back Bullied tracks the causes and consequences of Sexual Abuse, Dave Ohlmuller, as he conducts to civilian life was very difficult for Jon Hancock. bullying, along with programs and solutions a solo bicycle ride from Chicago to New York to After years of struggling, Jon decided to take that have had an impact on mitigating bullying raise awareness of this scourge. Along this 700- an epic journey across the country - on foot. in schools. Through interviews with family mile journey, Dave meets other Survivors abused Walking nearly 6,000 miles alone, Jon confronts members, victims of bullying, and an array by coaches, teachers, family members, and like the demons that had overtaken his life. Visiting of the most notable experts on bullying in Dave himself, Catholic priests. Through these his fellow 2/4 Marines - a unit known as the America today, Bullied takes the audience on an interactions and common stories, Dave tries to find a way to connect and heal, mile by mile, as The Magnificent Bastards - and families of their unflinching journey into the lives of those who he heads east towards his hometown. Dave also fallen along the way, Jon finds a mission greater suffer bullying, while focusing on how bullying meets high-profile advocates like Senator Joe than his own redemption. With remarkable can be reduced around the world. Vitale of New Jersey, Kathryn Robb of New York, honesty, insight and humor, Jon’s journey gives and Marci Hamilton of Pennsylvania, who each a uniquely positive approach to the post-war scored major victories in 2019 by reforming topic. It’s about changing the ways one relates their states’ long-standing Statute of Limitations to traumatic memories. It’s about beginning the laws that favored the abusers. Dave Ohlmuller healing process. begins this trek as a lone Survivor. Today, he realizes he is part of a movement bigger than just the sum of its victims. Co-Produced by Greenwich filmmaker and fellow Survivor, Joe Capozzi, this film aims to inspire others to tell their stories and to educate the masses on the personal and legal obstacles victims often face alone during their long road to recovery. Director(s): Brian Morrison Director(s): Thomas Keith Producer(s): Brian Morrison Producer(s): Thomas Keith Director(s): Steven E. Mallorca, Screenwriter(s): Mark Stafford Editor(s): Thomas Keith John Bernardo Editor(s): Brian Morrison Dir. of Photography: Producer(s): Joe Capozzi, John Bernardo Dir. of Photography: Brian Morrison James Bustamante, Ray Wolf Editor(s): Steven E. Mallorca Key Subject(s): Jon Hancock, Brian Key Subject(s): Jennifer Pozner, Dir. of Photography: Steven E. Mallorca Britton, Dustin Kieschnick, Seth Bai Kirk Smalley, Carol Todd, Ron Avi Astor Key Subject(s): Dave Ohlmuller, Roseanna Powers, Dianne Layfield, Joe Capozzi Chris Macintosh, Taylor Wiley NARRATIVE DOC. CT SHORTS 20 | Greenwich International Film Festival FEAT. FEAT. PROGRAM SOCIAL IMPACT FAMILY FRIENDLY DOCUMENTARY FILMS DRIVEN TO THE EUPHORIA FOR WALTER AND JOSIAH ABSTRACTION OF BEING USA / 84 MINS In honor of The Strassler Center for Holocaust USA / 66 MINS and Genocide Studies Program at Clark University, and generously underwritten by Driven to Abstraction unravels a mutating tale The Simon and Eve Colin Foundation. Montana has the highest suicide rate in the of self-delusion, greed, and fraud - the $80 U.S., and on Native American reservations that million forgery scandal that rocked the art HUNGARY / 83 MINS rate is 22% higher still. The Flathead Indian world and brought down Knoedler, New York Hungarian with English subtitles Reservation was shaken to the core by 22 City’s most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s Native suicides in a single year - including Éva Fahidi was 20 years old when she returned esteemed director the victim of a con artist two beloved members of the local high school to Hungary from Auschwitz Birkenau. She was all who showed up with an endless treasure trove basketball team. ‘For Walter And Josiah’ follows alone, 49 members of her family were murdered, of previously unseen abstract expressionist the team’s surviving members during their including her mother, her father and her little masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect most recent basketball season, as they attempt sister. 70 years later, aged 90, Éva is asked to they were fakes, yet continue to sell them for to honor their fallen brothers while coping with participate in a dance-theatre performance about millions of dollars for fifteen years? Whatever staggering grief and the daunting challenges of her life. Director Réka Szabo imagines a duet the truth, two women from very different everyday life on the reservation. The documentary between Éva and the internationally acclaimed worlds crossed paths in what would become examines the historical trauma and other factors dancer, Emese, juxtaposing these two women on the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art. contributing to the Indigenous suicide epidemic, stage, young and old, to see how their bodies while exploring the impact of cultural resurgence and their stories can intertwine. Éva agrees as an alternative to escaping the reservation. ‘For immediately. Three women— three months—a Walter and Josiah’ is a story of heartbreak, pain, story of crossing boundaries. Whilst key redemption, and hope in a community pushed to moments of Éva’s life are distilled into theater extremes - looking for the inspiration to push back. scenes, a powerful relationship forms between the three women. Director(s): Daria Price Director(s): Réka Szabó Director(s): Jamie Elias Producer(s): Daria Price Producer(s): Sára László, Marcell Gerő, Producer(s): Trent Cooper, Benjamin Editor(s): Daria Price Réka Szabó Blank, Jamie Elias, Addison Neville, Directors of Photography: Editor(s): Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass Kurt Anderson Peter Sova, Daria Price Dir. of Photography: Claudia Kovács Editor(s): Stephanie Yang, Jamie Elias Key Subject(s): Patricia Cohen, Key Subject(s): Éva Fahidi, Dir. of Photography: Addison Neville Michael Shnayerson, Eileen Kinsella, Emese Cuhorka, Réka Szabó Laura Gilbert, Luke Nikas, Martha Parrish, James Kelly Greenwich International Film Festival | 21 DOCUMENTARY FILMS THE HOY BOYS MEDICATING NORMAL MUSIC GOT ME HERE USA / 72 MINS USA / 76 MINS USA / 89 MINS English with occasional subtitles for clarity Working class twin brothers Tom and Frank Hoy One in five Americans is taking a psychiatric In a snowboarding accident, Forrest, age 18, suffers a hustled up copyboy jobs in 1953 and eventually medication, including antidepressants, ADHD traumatic brain injury that leaves him trapped inside become White House News Photographers for drugs, and/or anti-anxiety medications. While himself, unable to speak or walk for nearly two years. two major DC papers. Frank shot pictures for The these drugs can provide effective short-term relief Desperate to connect with her son, Forrest’s mother Washington Post, and Tom did the same for The for emotional distress, pharmaceutical companies contacts Tom Sweitzer, a music therapist with a troubled Evening Star. They were affectionately known as have hidden dangerous side effects and long-term childhood whose own life was “saved” by music. For “The Hoy Boys.” They were never famous, but their harm from both doctors and patients. Combining months, Forrest doesn’t acknowledge Tom. Gradually, story is the story of American journalism when it cinema verité and investigative journalism, Forrest starts responding to the music, starting with mattered most, and ‘The Hoy Boys’ provides a lens Medicating Normal follows the stories of five a little movement of his finger or smile. Tom uses a through which we view the chaos of the current diverse Americans who were harmed by music therapy method to teach Forrest to breathe, then hum, and find his “pitch.”After many months, the hums media landscape. Tom and Frank Hoy stumbled prescribed medications they took to feel better. turn into Forrest’s first words, “Good Morning.” Soon, into a golden era for photojournalism and ‘The The film exposes a larger story of medicine he’s singing entire songs and speaking in sentences. Hoy Boys’ introduces audiences to the once great infiltrated by pharmaceutical companies seeking Forrest’s finally getting his voice and life back when he’s The Evening Star newspaper (1862 - 1981). It was to expand markets. faced with one medical setback after another. A serious the leading paper in DC in the 1950s and one of infection requires surgeons to remove the prosthetic the top newspapers in the country. The Evening Star implant that is protecting his brain, where a large part is brought to life by alumni Carl Bernstein, John of his skull was removed after his accident. Without Hoge, Rupert Welch, Jack Sherwood, Arnold Taylor any protection for his brain and others. Tom and Frank’s iconic photographs from atmospheric pressure, graced the pages of Forrest’s ability to survive is competing Washington uncertain. A groundbreaking DC newspapers in the