ashlandfilm.org April 3-7, 2014 3-7, April 13th Annual 13th Annual ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
13th ASHLAND INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL April 3-7, 2014
CONTENTS Box Office 3 PO Box 218 Venues 5 Ashland, Oregon 97520 541.488.3823 Support AIFF 7 [email protected] Welcome 8 ashlandfilm.org Sponsors & Grantors 11 Parties 14 Lifetime Achievement & Rogue Awards 16 Connect with #AIFF14 Filmmaker TalkBack Panels 21 twitter.com/ashlandfilm Locals Only & Launch Films 22 facebook.com/ashlandfilm Family Films 25 blog.ashlandfilm.org Awards & Jurors 26 instagram.com/ashlandfilm Films 29 Documentaries 30 Short Documentaries 49 SAVE THE DATE! Features 59 for the 14th Annual AIFF Shorts 69 April 9-13, 2015 The AIFF Team 84 Volunteers 86 Donors & Members 88 The 2014 Festival art was painted on Thanks 90 location by Gabriel Mark Lipper Schedule 91 Film Index 96 Graphic design by CarterWorks
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PAGE 2 BOX OFFICE & MERCHANDISE The AIFF Box Office brought to you by MARCH 10 Tickets go on sale to Members MARCH 16 Tickets go on sale to the General Public
PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE at ashlandfilm.org No service fee thanks to Project A! TICKET PRICES PRE-SALE TICKETS/WILL CALL Films Information Kiosk, Downtown Ashland Plaza General: $12 Member Pre-sale Dates: March 10-15, 4-6pm Seniors (62+): $11 Online ordering begins at 10am PST Students (w/valid ID at door): $6 Benefactor, Executive Oregon Trail Card Holders: $5 (Box Office only) Producer & Producer Monday, March 10 Director Tuesday, March 11 Locals Only Film Programs Fan Wednesday, March 12 Free (ticket required) Cine Thursday, March 13 Indie Friday, March 14 Filmmaker TalkBack Panels Friend Saturday, March 15 Free (ticket required)
General Public Pre-Sale Dates/Hours Parties Monday, March 16, 4-6pm Opening Night Bash: $30 Friday through Monday, March 21-24, 4-6pm Awards Celebration: $75 Friday through Wednesday, March 28-April 2, 4-6pm
All venues wheelchair accessible except DURING FESTIVAL TICKETS/WILL CALL Varsity 2 (upstairs). Check with box office Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., Ashland for ticket availability. Thursday through Monday, April 3-7, 9am-10pm
TICKET & PASS POLICY • No refunds and no exchanges Get Your • Membership passes are non-transferable • All member and pass holders must select tickets in AIFF Gear! advance to guarantee seating Available at the Varsity Theatre During the Festival 15-MINUTE RULE • Ticket and pass holders must be at the theater • T-shirt: $25 15 minutes before the show • Baseball Hat • If you do not show up 15 minutes before showtime, you are not guaranteed a seat and your ticket will not (organic cotton): $20 be refunded • Aluminum Water Bottle (BPA-free): $10 RUSH TICKETS • Poster: $5 • Sold when advance tickets are no longer available • Sold at the door immediately before showtime • Button: $1 • Available on a first-come, first-served basis depending on how many seats are unclaimed after advance ticket-holders are admitted • Not discounted (see ticket prices) • Cash or Film Voucher only
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PAGE 5 PAGE 6 SUPPORT AIFF Your membership dollars make it possible for us to put on our annual festival as well as offer year-round programming and educational events that foster meaningful community dialogue about the issues facing our world. Please know that we are only able to present this unique programming in our region with your support. Membership Tax Deductible Donations Support For a full list of benefits and to become a member, visit the box office or ashlandfilm.org. Our Year-Round Programming Basic AIFF Member Benefits: The Board of Directors and Staff of the • Advance ticket ordering before general public (online and at the pre-sale box office). Date determined by membership level film festival are committed to: (see page 3) • Bringing a unique cultural • Early entry to films before general public experience and community dialogue to Southern Oregon FRIEND / $75 • Generating income to support our INDIE / $125 local economy • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before FRIEND • Developing educational programs • Pass to pre-select a film in six time slots that both nurture a new generation CINE / $250 of filmmakers and foster a deeper • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before INDIE understanding of issues facing our • Pass to pre-select a film in fourteen time slots world today FAN / $325 Ticket sales and membership each • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before CINE account for less than 25% of our • Pass to pre-select a film in every time slot revenue to support our year-round DIRECTOR / $500 programming activities. To ensure • All Basic Membership Benefits plus ticket ordering before FAN the long-term success of the festival, • Pass to pre-select a film in every time slot we increasingly rely on individual • Opening Night Bash & Awards Celebration ticket donations from supporters like you. • Invitation for you and a guest to a Filmmaker Reception We hope you will consider a • Two transferable film ticket vouchers tax deductible donation to support the PRODUCER / $1,000 non-profit Ashland Independent Film All DIRECTOR membership benefits plus: Festival. Visit ashlandfilm.org/donate • Exclusive ticket exchange privileges for more information. • On-screen recognition during the festival We appreciate your support! • Invitation for you and a guest to two Filmmaker Receptions EXECUTIVE PRODUCER / $2,500 Can You Help Us All PRODUCER membership benefits plus: • Ticketless entry to most festival films with exclusive reserved seat GiveFilm? • Complimentary festival parking at the Ashland Springs Hotel For every $12 donated through GiveFilm, • Access to private filmmaker Hospitality Suite the AIFF will issue one ticket voucher • Invitations for you and a guest to all three Filmmaker Receptions good for a festival film. Find out more at • Private consultations with AIFF programmer to assist in your film selection • Reserved seat at Awards Celebration ashlandfilm.org/givefilm. BENEFACTOR / $5,000 All EXECUTIVE PRODUCER membership benefits plus: • Sponsorship of an individual film block during the estival,f including exclusive recognition before each screening, in print, and online
PAGE 7 WELCOME
From the Governor From the Mayor of the State of Oregon of the City of Ashland elcome to the 13th elcome to the Wannual Ashland WCity of Ashland Independent Film and to the 13th Annual Festival. In Oregon we’re Ashland Independent Film proud to not only play Festival. It has been a great host to this world-class pleasure of mine over the film festival, but to last twelve years to watch increasingly be called the AIFF’s growth and home for this shining diversification into one of industry, and the creative the leading film festivals professionals it brings from all over the world. in the Pacific Northwest. If you’re a filmmaker, let me remind you of the I want to thank the AIFF and its wonderful, and opportunity to choose Oregon for your next project. wonderfully large, group of volunteers and business Here you will find world-class directors, animators and supporters for helping to make this a truly successful commercial producers. Oregon has a wide array of event. I hope you appreciate as much as I do the AIFF’s professional support services, state-of-the-art facilities mission to “inspire, educate and entertain audiences of and an extraordinarily diverse range of locations to choose all ages.” This year’s films expand this mission and invite from. Moreover, our state has incentive programs to help new audiences to join those who have been entertained get your project off the ground. To learn more, please visit and inspired by the festival from its inception. my Office of Film and Television at: oregonfilm.org. I invite each of you to join our passionate local In addition to the Ashland Independent Film audience in enjoying all that AIFF and Ashland have to Festival, I hope you have a chance to discover Oregon, its offer — restaurants, parks, shopping, historic landmarks, wonderful scenery, its talented and friendly people, and and, most importantly, an exciting schedule of films. the exceptional value it has to offer. And if you see me around town please say hello!
Welcome to Oregon, With warm regards, John A. Kitzhaber, M.D. John Stromberg Governor, State of Oregon Mayor, City of Ashland
PAGE 8 From the Executive Director From the Director of Programming elcome to the 13th atching films for a Wannual Ashland W“living” — it is a curious Independent Film Festival! Our profession, but one that I am regional festival enthusiastically very grateful to engage in. embraces its teen years as one Viewing work from filmmakers of MovieMaker Magazine’s who are very new to the “Top 25 Coolest Festivals in endeavor, as well as from the World” and as their #2 legendary artists who have town in which to live and be been making films for a filmmaker. There is a reason decades, enriches my life for our success, and it’s (insert each and every day. It shifts drumroll)… YOU. Filmmaker my perspective on the world, and filmgoer, staff and volunteer, grantor and sponsor — opens my mind to new ideas, and fills me with anger, all assemble in this incredible hamlet of Ashland, OR. It sorrow, and much joy, often in just 9 or 90 minutes. is a very wonderful thing you create here for five magical The programmers and staff of the AIFF are thrilled to days each spring. share with you 97 of the best independent films we have In a world where screens are becoming smaller and experienced this past year in the hopes that you will be media ever more focused on individual consumption, similarly moved. I encourage you to relish this opportunity to sit in a As the number of filmmakers work we see each packed theater, strike up a conversation with a visiting season continues to grow, so does the reputation of the filmmaker or fellow filmgoer, and share a smile with one AIFF as a festival that extends legendary hospitality to (or all!) of our amazing volunteers. In this interaction lies our guests — to the filmmakers who come from far and the real festival experience. wide to share their work, and to our audience, who line And, please be sure to complete our annual Audience the streets for five days to connect with a community Survey. Your responses help us improve our annual event, brought together by a true love of cinema. It doesn’t get as well as provide essential information for our funders. much better than that! If that’s not incentive enough, you could win an all-access Thank you for joining us. pass to AIFF15! Thank you for making our celebration of independent film possible (not to mention cool). We look forward to Joanne Feinberg seeing you back in Ashland, April 9-13, 2015. Director of Programming Anne Ashbey Executive Director
From the Board President 014 marks the 13th annual made it to every special event. I was hooked and couldn’t 2Ashland Independent get enough. Having had the opportunity to look through Film Festival and another five a new and different lens into our world and community, days where a community of I was transported and transformed. filmmakers and film lovers We invite you to join us and to immerse yourself converge to celebrate and in the art of independent film. Come and enjoy experience the craft and thought-provoking and inspiring discussion of key power of independent film. issues, compelling stories not only from the far reaches With our reputation as a of our world, but locally as well, and the spirit of “filmmaker’s festival,” Ashland community and camaraderie that is like no other. is the perfect environment We are grateful to you and to our incredible staff, for filmmakers, industry numerous volunteers, sponsors, donors, advertisers and professionals, and audiences to become immersed in local businesses. You all make our festival possible. this uniquely creative art form. In 2007, I attended my very first AIFF. Even as a Pam Leandro Notch novice, I managed to screen a total of twenty-one shorts, Board President features and docs, attended the TalkBack panels, and
PAGE 9 PAGE 10 SPONSORS & GRANTORS Premier Sponsor Jim Collier
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proud supporters of the PAGE 12 Community Sponsors Housing Providers Aaron’s Inc. Rock Island Design Anne Hathaway’s B&B and BlissSuperfoods.com Rogue Design Group Garden Suites Buttercloud Bakery & Cafe Rogue Federal Credit Union Ashland Cottages Connecting Point Computers Rogue Valley Roasting Coolidge House Bed & Breakfast Dagoba Organic Chocolate Company Country Willows Inn Jolene’s Sweets Shawn’s Rideshare Iris Inn Bed & Breakfast McIntyre Interiors Smithfields Restaurant and Bar Oak Hill Bed & Breakfast Mt. Shasta Spring Water Thai Pepper Satay Bar Oak Street Station B&B Paydogs Water Street Café Parkside Cottage Penny and Lulu Wise Exposition Pelton House Plaza Salon Women in FIlm/Portland The Peerless Hotel Plaza Inn and Suites Shrew’s House Bed & Breakfast Grantors Stratford Inn Winchester Inn Wisteria House A special thank you to the Rogue Valley residents who provided housing for filmmakers and festival guests.
Thank you to all our Sponsors whose support was confirmed Carpenter Foundation Gardner Grout Foundation Oregon Cultural Trust after our publication deadline.
PAGE 13 FESTIVAL EVENTS PARTIES Opening Night Bash Thursday, April 3 7:30–10:30pm Ashland Springs Hotel Tickets: $30
Enjoy an evening of food and drink with the AIFF14 filmmakers. Rogue Creamery presents international award winning cheeses paired with artisan chocolate, charcuterie, fruit, beer and wine from Rogue Creamery Buttercloud Bakery Noble Coffee Roasting Southern Oregon. Cliff Creek Cellars Rogue Ales brings you Dagoba Organic Chocolates Rogue Creamery The Opening Night Bash the Opening Gary West Meats SAKE ONE and Awards Celebration Grizzly Peak Winery Summit Beverage produced by: Night Bash JFC International The Lunch Show JOTO Sake VINE Connection AZ Catering & Event Featuring Artisan Kobe Vintner’s Kitchen Planning Hors d’Oeuvres & Ledger David Cellars Weisinger Family Winery azparties.com Beverages Lillie Belle Farms Wylie’s Honey Soda
Thursday, April 3 AfterLounge Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant Nightly 5p-1a No cover charge Friday, April 4 Thai Pepper Satay Bar Industry Night hosted by Oregon Film, OMPA and SOFaT Saturday, April 5 Standing Stone Brewing Co. Karaoke starts at 9pm Sunday, April 6 Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant
Join the festival community each night at this no-host, no-cover ongoing after-party. Take in a meal or enjoy a fine selection of beer, wine PAGE 14 and spirits. Awards Celebration Sunday, April 6, 7:30–11pm Historic Ashland Armory Tickets: $75 (includes small plates, dessert & drinks*)
Toast our Juried and Audience Award winners with drinks and small plates from the Rogue Valley’s finest restaurants. Clips will be shown from the films in each category. Barbara Kopple will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award (page 16).
Small Plates Bar Agave Caldera Loft American Brasserie and Bar Cliff Creek Cellars Omar’s Fresh Seafood and Steaks Ledger David Cellars Peerless Restaurant Summit Beverage Salame ...and other local wineries Thai Pepper Satay Bar The AIFF Award: Dessert & Coffee Dennis DeBey, Ashland’s blacksmith for 40 years, Heidi’s Pie in the Sky designed and handcrafted Mix Sweet Shop the forged steel film reel Noble Coffee Roasting *Your first two drinks replica mounted on a Sterling Silver Food Company are on the house! black walnut wood base.
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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BARBARA KOPPLE The Ashland Independent Film Festival is delighted to present the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award to Barbara Kopple, one of the most respected and accomplished filmmakers working today.
“When we’re shooting we want to be up first and the last to bed. That can be a challenge, whether you’re shooting people who like to watch the sunrise like Mariel Hemingway, or waking up before dawn in minus 60 degree weather to be on a picket line. But we never know what little moment, what subtle touch or late night conversation will become a key moment in our film.” “One of my mantras is ‘be there.’ Be there for it all. Because this isn’t just filmmaking.... It’s also life.” – Barbara Kopple
hroughout her career, Barbara Kopple has revealed to her most recent film Running from Crazy, a portrait Ta courageous commitment to documenting life as it of actress Mariel Hemingway, Kopple’s films have been happens, bringing this conviction to the most important essential to increasing the influence and popularity of and challenging social issues, while also exploring personal documentaries today. stories, authentic human moments, and fascinating Kopple is the only woman filmmaker to be honored characters. twice by the Academy — for Harlan County USA (1976) and From Harlan County USA, which followed striking coal American Dream (1990). Harlan County USA was named to miners in Kentucky, to American Dream about the Hormel the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1991, Foods meatpacker strike in Minnesota; from Shut Up and and honored as one of the top five documentaries of all time Sing about the Dixie Chicks’ run-in with George W. Bush, by the International Documentary Association in 1990.
PAGE 16 “One of the things I love about making documentary films is that we never know what’s coming around the corner. LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD We research and plan, but in the end, life takes us where it wants…. Our job is to follow our heart and our gut, and stay BARBARA KOPPLE true to them both.” – Barbara Kopple AIFF Events featuring Barbara Kopple
An Evening of Music & Conversation with Barbara Kopple Friday, April 4, 6:00pm | Historic Ashland Armory From Harlan County USA to Wild Man Blues, Shut Up and Sing, and Woodstock: Now and Then, music has always been instrumental in Barbara Kopple’s films. Join AIFF14 Lifetime Achievement Award honoree, and her special guests, David Morris — an Appalachian musician from West Virginia featured in Harlan County USA — and his son Jack as they weave film and music into a lively evening of conversation, providing Selected Filmography insight into Barbara’s celebrated filmmaking career. Running From Crazy, 2013 Woodstock: Now and Then, 2009 Harlan County USA Screens Friday, April 4, 12:00pm, Varsity Theatre Shut Up and Sing, 2006 (page 33) A Conversation with Gregory Peck, 1999 Wild Man Blues, 1997 Running From Crazy Screens Saturday, April 5, 12:00pm, Historic Ashland Armory Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson, 1993 (page 41) American Dream, 1990 Barbara Kopple will be present for Q&As following her films, and (Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature) will receive the AIFF14 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Awards Harlan County USA, 1976 Celebration, Sunday, April 6, 7:30pm, Historic Ashland Armory. (Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature)
The Crash Reel
Harlan County USA
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ROGUE AWARD TY BURRELL
“I’m the cool dad, that’s my thang. I’m hip, I surf the web, I text. LOL: laugh out loud, OMG: oh my god, WTF: why the face?” – Phil Dunphy, Modern Family
ou know Phil Dunphy — the funniest father on Ytelevision. Goofy and geeky, trying hard to be the cool dad… But do you know Ty Burrell, the man behind Phil? The Emmy® Award–winning performer who grew up in Ashland, graduated from Hidden Valley High School in Grants Pass, and who credits his alma mater, Southern Oregon University, with his development as an actor? Ty has appeared in blockbuster hits such as Black Hawk Down (2001), Dawn of the Dead (2004), and The A Conversation with Ty Burrell Incredible Hulk (2008), and is the voice of Mr. Peabody Saturday, April 5, 6pm | Historic Ashland Armory in Mr. Peabody & Sherman, now playing in theaters. Join Ty and his childhood friend, Miles Inada, Professor He has also had serious roles on Broadway and off, of Art and Emerging Media at Southern Oregon from New York’s Union Square Theater to London’s University, for what is sure to be an insightful, Royal Court Theatre. irreverent, and thoroughly entertaining discussion of acting (“the least rational career possible”) and This ear,y the AIFF is elated to present a 2014 Rogue playing soccer in first grade — as well as a Q&A with Award to this homegrown talent. Welcome back, Ty! the audience, and other surprises!
“I don’t win things… I won a cakewalk when I was maybe 6 or 7 and it’s still the pinnacle. I’ve never won anything since, so I’m not gonna count on it.” – Ty Burrell, before winning his first Emmy® in 2010
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ROGUE AWARD ROGUE AWARD TY BURRELL MARK MONROE The Ashland Independent Film Festival presents its Rogue Award to filmmakers of outstanding accomplishment in the world of independent film. This year the festival honors celebrated documentary screenwriter, Mark Monroe, putting the spotlight on his important, but often overlooked craft.
firm believer that “a film tells you where it wants Ato go, what it wants to be,” Mark Monroe’s job is to structure the film in the most dramatic way possible, giving it a narrative drive. “Taking on projects that need a form or a structure, or a way to turn hundreds of hours of footage into ninety minutes, that’s how it begins.” Monroe’s breakthrough work as a documentary screenwriter came on the Oscar®-winning 2009 film “In the old days, documentaries The Cove, followed by the acclaimed The Pat Tillman Story, Chasing Ice (AIFF12), and The Summit, as well were made in the editing room as the upcoming Mission Blue, a documentary about between the director and the renowned ocean activist Sylvia Earle. editor. But documentaries are a Filmmaker TalkBack Panel: little more sophisticated these “Not the Same Old Story” Friday April 4, 10:00am | Ashland Springs Hotel days — they contain more than Mark will talk in depth about his work and be joined just talking heads. If you want it by other AIFF14 writers and directors to discuss the key contribution screenwriters make to non-fiction to screen like a film, it has to be storytelling. The panel will be moderated by Warren Etheredge, who has conducted over 2,500 interviews as as entertaining as a film.” host of The High Bar, an Emmy®–nominated television series, and as founder of The Warren Report. –Mark Monroe
AIFF14 OPENING NIGHT FILM
The Case Against 8 Thursday, April 3, 6:00pm | Historic Ashland Armory
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Join us for a Q&A after the film with co-directors Ben Cotner and Ryan White, and two of the plaintiffs from the case, Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo.
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FILMMAKER TALKBACK PANELS Join us from 10-11:30am Not the Same Old Story on Friday, Saturday, Friday, April 4, 10:00–11:30am and Sunday for AIFF14 Rogue Award honoree Mark Monroe (The Cove; Chasing Ice, AIFF12) thought-provoking and will talk in depth about his work and will be joined with other AIFF14 writers and directors to discuss the key contribution screenwriters make to engaging discussions with non-fiction storytelling. AIFF14 filmmakers and Moderator: Warren Etheredge has conducted over 2,500 interviews as host of The High Bar, an Emmy®–nominated television series, and as founder of The Special Guests. Warren Report, TheFilmSchool, and the Red Badge Project.
Ashland Springs Hotel The Other Side of the Aisle Ballroom, 2nd floor Saturday, April 5, 10:00–11:30am As more documentaries utilize dramatic recreations, and feature films Free (ticket required due incorporate documentary elements into their narratives, what can AIFF to limited seating) fiction and nonfiction filmmakers learn from one another? Moderator: AJ Schnack’s feature documentary credits include Caucus (AIFF13 Secret Screening) and We Always Lie to Strangers (AIFF13). He is the founder and co-chair of the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking.
Kickstarted: A Case Study Sunday, April 6, 10:00–11:30am Join Elisabeth Holm from Kickstarter in a case study of Director Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child (AIFF14), which Elisabeth produced. AIFF14 filmmakers will join the discussion with stories about their own efforts using Kickstarter to raise funds, and for community building and outreach. Moderator: Elisabeth Holm is an independent producer, writer, and Film Program Director at Kickstarter where she’s responsible for film project curating, editorial, special events, and filmmaker relations.
PAGE 21 FILM PROGRAMS LOCAL & LAUNCH A showcase of films produced in the Siskiyou Region by local and student filmmakers. Locals Only screenings are free, but a ticket is required.
Locals Only 1 Family friendly Friday, April 4, 3:40pm & Saturday, April 5, 10:10am | Ashland Street Cinema | 42 minutes
Be Yourself The Importance Kristan Kelly Williams of Bees Doc | 11 min | Talent Sergei Boutenko A pianist, a dancer and a Doc | 5 min | Ashland singer each live their Featuring Sarah Red-Laird, unique dream with aka “Bee Girl,” a world- inspiration, encouragement renowned bee expert. and hope.
Compassion Street Deer Emmanuel Senter | Short Vanessa Nowitzky | Short 1 min | Ashland 7 min | Ashland Launch 6-8 Grade Winner Three deer convene to A film about empathy and share their exploits in compassion. Ashland, and find an unlikely comrade.
Elegies Bruce Bayard | Short 8 min | Ashland Plus A personal meditation on Launch Honorable Mention Films: mourning, loss, and life passages. Featuring Suzee Magic Shop Grilley. Julie Corey, Thea Meyers | 1 min | Ashland
Secret Agent Jill The Elf and Jillian Luttrull | 2 min | Ashland the Wizard Jordan Kemper | Short Stranded 2 min | Ashland Nathanael Lathrop | 3 min | Weed, CA Launch K-5 Grade Winner An elf and a wizard make friends in a shop. The Saturday April 5, 10:10am showing is followed The Human Puppet by an Awards Ceremony for Launch Regional Student Ireland Barber, Johanna Film Competition winners. Prizes made possible by the Thurman | Short | 2 min | Rotary Club of Ashland Lithia Springs Vocational Service Central Point Launch High School Committee. Winner You can also see Launch-winning films in the Family Shorts A girl frees herself from the strings that bind her. Program (pg. 25) at the Ashland Street Cinema PAGE 22 FILM PROGRAMS
Locals Only 2 For mature audiences Friday, April 4, 9:40pm, Ashland St. Cinema & Monday, April 6, 3:00pm, Varsity Theatre | 49 minutes
Enemies Necrotic David West | Short Ross Williams | Short 14 min | Medford 4 min | Talent A young man hitchhikes A woman bitten by a across the country with zombie descends into nothing but the clothes on madness, as the trans- his back and a mysterious formation overtakes her lock-box. body and mind.
High Wind Advisory What We Were Theresa Barton Gonna Do Doc | 11 min | Ashland Mandy Valencia An exploration of the bond Doc | 5 min | Medford between father and daughter Launch College Winner that tests their honesty and A story about a dream vulnerability. once shared by a group of paratroopers during the Vietnam War.
His Girl Goliath Justin Dye, Jacy Mairs Short | 15 min | Ashland Eleven-year-old David falls in love with the twenty-three-year-old girl next door.
The Launch Regional Student Film Competition
The Launch is a free contest THE JURORS for kindergarten through Dee Anne Everson is Executive Director of United Way of Jackson County, and an undergraduate students Ashland resident with a deep commitment to the arts as human service. that encourages storytelling Lee Fuchsmann is Vice President in charge of the Film Department at Coming through the art of filmmaking. Attractions Theatres, and currently programs 151 screens weekly. She has been in For more information, visit the industry for 44 years and loves what she does. ashlandfilm.org/launch. Gary Lundgren is the writer/director of Redwood Highway (AIFF13), Calvin Marshall (AIFF10) and Black Road. He lives in Ashland with his wife, producer Anne Lundgren, and their daughter Flannery.
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PAGE 24 Ernest & FOR FAMILIES Celestine
Family Shorts Family Friendly Feature 44 minutes | Ages 5+ Ernest & Celestine (page 61) Friday 10:10am & 12:40pm | Saturday 12:40pm 80 minutes | Friday 6:40pm & Sunday 12:40pm | Ashland St. Cinema Saturday 3:40pm | Ashland St. Cinema 2014 Academy Award® nominee for Best These twelve shorts are geared for kids, but their creativity will Animated Feature. When artistic, orphaned engage and delight all ages. The program includes animation from mouse Celestine meets sensitive, talented around the world and films from students right here in the Rogue bear Ernest, they form an unlikely bond. Valley. This popular program is located at the Ashland St. Cinema. With Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, and William H. Macy. CowBurd Alligator Stroll The Fox and the Chickadee MACROPOLIS Hannah and the Moon Secret Agent Jill* Spacebound Magic Shop* Animal Cookies Stranded* Winter Has Come The Elf and the Wizard* *Launch Regional Student Film Competition Winner & Honorable Mentions
Sandra Boynton, one of America’s best-loved artists and children’s book authors, will be in Ashland during the festival with LAIKA’s Animated World: her newest short film, Alligator in 24 frames per second Stroll (pg. 70), and a gallery Saturday, April 5, 11am–12pm exhibit of whimsical and original ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum images from her new book Frog 1500 East Main Street Trouble at Houston’s Custom Admission: Free with an AIFF14 ticket stub Framing and Fine Art, 270 E Go behind-the-scenes for a special presentation Main St., Ashland. with Mark Shapiro from LAIKA, the Portland- based animation studio. Featuring rarely viewed footage, Mark exposes the remarkable creativity at LAIKA including Oscar®-nominated features for the Family Choice Award CAST Coraline (set in Ashland), ParaNorman, and the YOUR at the Family Shorts show. upcoming film The Boxtrolls, which debuts in VOTE The whole family gets a vote! theaters September, 2014.
PAGE 25 AWARDS & JURORS JURIED AWARDS AUDIENCE AWARDS AIFF jurors represent a cross-section of leaders in AIFF Audience Awards are decided by festival-goers the independent film community: accomplished who submit their ballots after the film screenings. filmmakers, curators, critics, industry professionals, These awards are highly valued by our filmmakers. and educators with original and diverse opinions. Don’t forget to vote! The 2014 Jurors will decide the following: • Rogue Creamery Audience Award: • The Les Blank Award: Best Feature Length Best Documentary Documentary • Audience Award: Best Short Documentary • Best Editing: Feature Length Documentary • Varsity Audience Award: Best Feature • Best Short Documentary • Audience Award: Best Short Film • Best Feature • Family Choice Award • Best Acting Ensemble: Feature • The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. Award for Best Cinematography: Feature • Best Short Film THE JURORS The Les Blank Award: Best Best Editing: Feature Length Feature Length Documentary Documentary
Neal Block is Head of Theatrical Greg Finton has worked as an editor Distribution at Magnolia Pictures. He in film and TV for more than 25 years. has recently overseen the release of His credits include: American High, It Blackfish; Food Inc.; and The Hunt. Might Get Loud, Waiting For Superman, Magnolia shepherds into theaters Lars and The World According To Dick Cheney Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac and Lukas (AIFF12), which he also co-directed. He is Moodyson’s spectacular We Are The Best! currently editing a documentary about the Neal previously worked for Palm Pictures life of Malala Yousefzai. and Samuel Goldwyn Films. Sloane Klevin has won two Emmy Peter Caranicas is Deputy Editor of Awards as the editor for Taxi to the Variety, where he manages the features Dark Side and Mea Maxima Culpa. team that produces over 200 special print She is working on a documentary and online sections each year. Previously, about Bill Cosby, teaches at Columbia he was Editor of Below the Line, Shoot, University’s graduate Film Program, Film & Video and other industry and is an Executive Producer of magazines. He received his B.A. from Hateship, Loveship, starring Kristen Yale and a Master’s from the London Wiig and Guy Pearce. School of Economics. Jeff Malmberg is a documentary Roger Ross Williams’ latest film director and editor whose debut documentary film God Loves Uganda film Marwencol (AIFF10) won over premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film 25 international awards, including two Festival. It has won numerous awards Independent Spirit Awards and Best including Best Documentary AIFF13, Documentary of the Year from the Boston and was shortlisted for a 2014 Academy Society of Film Critics. He is currently Award. His film Music by Prudence working on a second film with his wife won the 2010 Academy Award® for and partner, Chris Shellen. documentary short subject.
PAGE 26 Best Short Documentary Benjamin Pelteson (Best Acting Ensemble Juror) Doug Blush is a longtime documentary is an acting company member at the director, producer, editor, writer, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He cinematographer. His editing credits has appeared on stage in New York, include the Academy Award®–nominated Philadelphia, DC, Massachusetts, The Invisible War (AIFF12) and 20 Feet Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and more. From Stardom, as well as Wordplay His TV credits include Homeland, Law & Order, and (AIFF06), IOUSA (AIFF08), Freakonomics Unforgettable. Benjamin co-curated the first ever Daedalus and over 20 other films. Film Fest, presented in partnership with AIFF, in 2013. Miriam Cutler is an Emmy-nominated Composer with an extensive background The Gerald Hirschfeld A.S.C. scoring for independent film & TV. Her passion for documentaries has led to a focus Award for Best Cinematography: in non-fiction including Academy Award®- Feature nominated Kingspoint and Poster Girl (AIFF11), and Emmy-nominated Ethel Gerald Hirschfield A.S.C. is the (AIFF12). In 2013 she joined the Academy Director of Photography of 45+ feature of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. films including Fail Safe and Young Frankenstein. He is the author of Image Nathan Truesdell is a filmmaker Control, and a member of the Academy based in Los Angeles. He recently of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. produced and shot the documentary He received the A.S.C.’s President’s Caucus, was producer/cinematographer/ Award and the AIFF04 Lifetime co-editor on We Always Lie To Strangers Achievement Award. (2013) and Convention (2009), and the cinematographer/editor of David Wilson’s short doc Big Birding Day (2010), all of which have screened at AIFF. Best Short Film Drew Christie is an award-winning animator and filmmaker who has screened Best Feature and Best Acting work at film festivals across the world, Ensemble: Feature including the Sundance Film Festival. His film The Song Of The Spindle won the Francesca Gregorini brings a worldly, AIFF12 Audience Award for Best Short. passionate and unique sensibility to her He contributes to The New York Times and filmmaking. Her film, The Truth About Vanity Fair online. Emanuel starring Jessica Biel and Kaya Scodelario, premiered in the US Dramatic Mark Shapiro’s is marketing and Competition at Sundance (2013) and went communications career has taken on to win the Cinematography and Acting him across the US, working in brand Ensemble Awards at AIFF13. development, advertising, public relations, film production, and writing for companies David Lowery is a filmmaker from as diverse as Nike and Town & Country Texas. His films include Pioneer (AIFF11 Magazine. In 2007, he joined LAIKA, Best Short Film), St. Nick, and Ain’t where he manages brand strategies, Them Bodies Saints. He co-wrote Pit Stop including marketing for LAIKA’s animated (AIFF13), and has also worked as an feature films. editor on films such as Upstream Color, Sun Don’t Shine, and Bad Fever. Becky Smith is an Emmy-nominated director whose feature 16 To Life is a Anne Thompson was on staff at The top-drawing comedy on Hulu and Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and served Netflix. She has directed for MTV, as West Coast Editor of Premiere. She has BRAVO, NBC, ABC Family, Fox, Disney written for the LA Weekly, Sight and Sound, Channel, and PBS. She teaches directing The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and The Washington Post, The London Observer, Television. Wired, and Vanity Fair. Her blog “Thompson on Hollywood” resides at Indiewire.
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PAGE 28 he 97 films of AIFF14 represent Ta cross section of the outstanding stories we have seen from independent filmmakers over the past year, from countries all around the world, and AIFF also from here in the Rogue Valley. We welcome student and first-time filmmakers, Oscar nominees and winners, AIFF alumni, and filmmakers who are new to our festival. 2014 We look forward to sharing these works of art with you, and to connecting outstanding filmmakers with our wonderful FILMS audiences.
Ratings Q&A Following each film synopsis throughout the Wait! Don’t leave just yet. Many program we note the following: “language,” filmmakers will be present after “mature” and “subtitles” to help you with selecting the screenings of their films so appropriate films, but this is a guide only, as most of our films have not yet been rated by the Motion make sure you don’t miss out on Picture Association of America. Please read the full these interactive Q&As! description and choose wisely.
PAGE 29 DOCUMENTARIES Burt’s Buzz 88 minutes | 2013 | USA, Canada | In Competition urt’s Buzz is a thoughtful, intimate, and humorous portrayal of bee- keeper Burt Shavitz, the reclusive co-founder of the iconic personal care Bline Burt’s Bees. Director Jody Shapiro ventures into the backwoods of Maine to find Burt where he has lived off the land — and off the grid, with no running water and only a wood-burning stove in his renovated turkey coop — since the 1970s. Though Burt’s bearded face still appears on many of the brand’s labels, the real Burt sold his interest in the business nearly 40 years ago. As part of an odd and complex arrangement with his co-founder and ex-girlfriend, Roxanne Quimby, the eccentric septuagenarian continues to promote Burt’s Bees. Reluctantly, he travels around the world making personal appearances, where he’s greeted by adoring fans. [language] Director’s Statement: Jody Shapiro I was fascinated by the idea of what it is to be a logo, TIMES Director: Jody Shapiro Producers: Isabella Rossellini, an icon. Here we had a rare opportunity to see the man behind the mask. As a person who wishes to live Saturday 3:00pm Phyllis Laing, Jean du Toit, Jody Shapiro on his own terms, Burt must cope with the knowl- Cinematographer: Brian Jackson edge that there are millions who believe he is not a Editor: Stacey Foster real person, but instead a made-up logo fronting a Music: Howie Beck successful product. I knew the journey with Burt With: Burt Shavitz would be filled with irony and contrasts — a road movie about a man who happily followed any path he came across, not know- ing where it would lead. And on a grander level, I hoped the film to be about the truth, or more specifically, how one can stay true to oneself despite the pressures of the larger world. For Burt, it’s a world he’s happy to acknowledge, but unwilling to let affect him. Selected Filmography: How to Start Your Own Company, Green Porno, Ice Breaker
The Case Against 8 AIFF Opening Night Film | 112 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition behind-the-scenes look at the historic case to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage. Filmed over five years, The Case Against 8 follows Athe unlikely pairing of lead attorneys from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Ted Olson and David Boies last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. Now as a team, they challenge California’s Proposition 8, the notorious 2008 ballot measure that repealed the right of same-sex couples to marry. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the center of the controversy. This is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the US Supreme Court — and won. Directors’ Statement: Ben Cotner & Ryan White In November 2008, our fellow Californians passed Proposition 8, taking away the right of same-sex couples to marry. Within weeks, the American TIMES Directors: Ben Cotner, Ryan White Producers: Ben Cotner, Ryan White Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) was formed to fight the proposition and bring the first federal Thursday 6:00pm Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins Screenwriters: Ben Cotner, challenge to a state’s same-sex marriage ban. We ap- Ryan White proached AFER about documenting the process of Cinematographers: Rebekah the legal challenge, with no way to know how far Fergusson, Ryan White, Ben Cotner, the case would go. Over the past five years, we’ve Joe Anderson (interviews) spent countless emotional days and sleepless nights Editor: Kate Amend with the attorneys and plaintiffs, capturing over Music: Blake Neely 600 hours of footage as they took their case to the Animator: Steve Antholis Supreme Court. We are extremely grateful for the incredible access we’ve been With: Kris Perry & Sandy Stier, given since the beginning, which allowed us to explore issues of bipartisanship, Jeff Zarrillo & Paul Katami, civil rights, privacy, and dignity. It is our hope that The Case Against 8 will give Ted Olson, David Boies audiences the opportunity to experience this historical journey in an in-depth and intimate way. thecaseagainst8.com Selected Filmography: Ryan White – Pelada, Good Ol’ Freda
PAGE 30 DOCUMENTARIES Dangerous Acts Starring the North American Premiere | 76 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition Unstable Elements of Belarus
reating provocative theater carries great personal risks: emotional, finan- cial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, there are Cadditional risks: censorship, imprisonment, and worse. Dangerous Acts goes behind the scenes with this internationally acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers who, in a desolate country choked by censorship and repression, defy Europe’s last remaining dictatorship. Smuggled film footage and uncensored interviews give audiences a front row seat to a resistance movement as it unfolds both on the stage and in the streets. As a dubious new presidential election looms in Belarus, the KGB targets the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, threatening them and their families. Torn between facing repression at home or going into exile abroad, these brave performers demonstrate how the power of art and hope can change the world. [subtitles] TIMES Director: Madeleine Sackler Producer: Madeleine Sackler Director’s Statement: Madeleine Sackler Executive Producer: Andrea Meditch Friday 6:20pm I first heard about the underground theater group, the Saturday 9:50am Screenwriter: Madeleine Sackler Cinematographers: Daniel Carter, Belarus Free Theatre, in 2010 from a New York theater friend. Sunday 3:20pm Larissa Kabernik I learned that their audiences in Belarus could only find the Editors: Anne Barliant, Leigh Johnson secret location of the theater after getting a phone call from P L A Y S W I T H Music: Wendy Blackstone the theater’s manager, who gave them directions and also instructed them to bring their passports in case the KGB I think this is the dangerousactsfilm.com raided the performance. On January 1, 2012, the theater closest to how the company was forced to flee Belarus after participating in a peaceful protest footage looked following a disputed presidential election. I realized I had an opportunity to (page 53) make a film that weaves together artistic versions of reality with reality itself. The film developed into the story of this watershed year for both Belarus and for the Belarus Free Theatre as the performers navigated separation from their home and from each other, yet continued to make art about their experience. Selected Filmography: The Lottery, Duke 91 & 92: Back to Back Elena 83 minutes | 2012 | Brazil iction and documentary blend into one in this lyrical, transformative, and deeply personal film. Petra was just seven when her older sister, FElena, nineteen at the time, left Brazil to study acting in the United States. Two decades later, with only a few clues about her older sister — home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary — Petra follows her to New York City. At any moment, Petra expects to find Elena walking the streets. Gradually, the features of the two sisters merge; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she must learn to let her go. Like the haunting opening music set to the opening credits, the film is a beautiful and melancholy tribute — “Dedicated to the One I Love.” [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Petra Costa I could not see myself not doing this film. Since TIMES Director: Petra Costa Producers: Bernardo Bath, Petra my sister died when I was seven years old, life has Thursday 12:30pm Costa, Sara Dosa, Caroline Onikute taken most of its meaning through her death. My feeling is that which is not engaged in everyday Friday 6:30pm Executive Producers: Tim Robbins, Julia Bock, Daniela Santos life slips into the realm of the forgotten. Through Saturday 10:00am Screenwriters: Petra Costa, the years, in the absence of rituals, and due to the Sunday 12:30pm Carolina Ziskind taboo of her suicide, my sister was seldom remembered by her family and Monday 3:30pm Cinematographers: Janice D’Avila, friends. My desire was to break through this taboo to find out more about Miguel Vassy, Will Etchebehere Elena. And also recount the story of how my mother and I survived through Editors: Marilia Moraes, P L Tina A Y BazS W I T H : this tragedy. My deep desire was that this film could open space for debate and Music: Vitor Araújo, FilYou Pinheiro, Have the Right create psychological and social change, to use art as a form of healing. Maggie Hastings Clifford,to an Attorney Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Gustavo Ruiz (page 45) With: Elena Andrade, Li An, Petra Costa elenafilm.com
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PAGE 32 DOCUMENTARIES Harlan County USA 103 minutes | 1976 | USA
IFF14 Lifetime Achievement honoree Barbara Kopple’s groundbreaking and timeless 1976 Academy Award®–winning documentary is an unfor- Agettable portrait of striking coal miners in a small Kentucky town and the harsh working conditions and tenacious spirit of a community that refused to back down. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack — with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, David Morris, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece — the film is a heartbreaking record of the struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. Director’s Statement: Barbara Kopple TIMES Director: Barbara Kopple As I started to do Harlan County USA, I realized Producer: Barbara Kopple that nothing in the world was going to stop me from Friday 12:00pm Editors: Nancy Baker, Mary Lampson telling that story. I filmed in the coalfields for three Cinematographers: Hart Perry, years. If you stick with people long enough, you can Kevin Keating see clearly in which directions they’re moving. That Sound: Barbara Kopple is why I think staying in a place over a long period Music: David Morris, Nimrod of time is really necessary when you’re trying to do Workman, Sarah Gunnings, some kind of in-depth study of what is happening. Hazel Dickens, Florence Reese, Three years isn’t long enough but we were able to Bill Worthington, Country Cookin, get a glimpse of the changes taking place. (1977). Roscoe Holcomb, Wade Ward Selected Filmography: American Dream, Shut Up and Sing, cabincreekfilms.com/ Running From Crazy films_harlancounty
The Internet’s Own Boy: 105 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition The Story of Aaron Swartz
t only 14, teenage computer prodigy Aaron Swartz helped create RSS and Reddit, which changed how people access and read content on the Inter- Anet. He was also involved with Creative Commons, the online alternative to copyright that encourages free information sharing. A few years later, Aaron’s commitment to free speech, social justice, and political advocacy persuaded him to “hack” a non-profit academic organization and download millions of digital articles. Although he did not sell or personally distribute them, he was arrested under a sweeping US law, and charged with multiple felonies that could have cost him 35 years in jail. A vibrant exploration of Aaron’s legal nightmare, the prosecution’s aggressive — some say over the top — tactics, and the big impact a seemingly small hacking gesture had on Aaron’s life — and perhaps the future of the Internet. TIMES Director: Brian Knappenberger Executive Producers: Brian Director’s Statement: Brian Knappenberger Friday 9:00pm Knappenberger, Charlie Annenberg Additional Executive Producers: Aaron’s story reached far beyond the Internet communities in Saturday 6:00pm Zack Braff, Mason Fink, Aaron which he was a celebrity. It also struck a chord with people who Sunday 3:00pm Greenspan, Greg Kidd were outraged about government overreach. Criminalization Screenwriter: Brian Knappenberger has become our knee-jerk response to pretty much anything that Cinematographers: Lincoln Else, scares us or that we don’t understand, including areas like open Scott Sinkler access to information. The recent Edward Snowden revelations have made it clear Editors: Bryan Storkel, Michelle that we can’t separate our massively networked lives from more traditional notions Witten, Andy Robertson, Jason Decker, of civil liberties. The Internet isn’t separate from us — some distant realm of geeks Brian Knappenberger and hackers — it is the key component to the way we live. Aaron’s story embodies Music: John Dragonetti all of this and more. His loss shows us what we lose when we are tone deaf about With: Ben Swartz, Noah Swartz, technology’s effects. But his actions while he was alive also demonstrated the Robert Swartz, Susan Swartz potential of technology to transform our lives and democracy for the better. aaronswartzthedocumentary.com Selected Filmography: WE ARE LEGION: The Story of the Hacktivists (AIFF12)
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’08 ’12 ’07 PAGE 34 DOCUMENTARIES Ivory Tower 95 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition rom the director of the Emmy®–nominated Page One: Inside the New York Times comes a documentary about the exploding cost of a college education Fin the US today. Tuition has skyrocketed. Hidden program fees and the prices of books and materials have run amok. Crushing student debt weighs graduates down for years, even decades. Higher education institutions have moved away from an emphasis on classroom content and enrollment for all, regardless of income, to a big business model of campus expansion and construction. Through interviews with leading educational thinkers, Ivory Tower asks the question — is college still worth it? — and crisscrosses the country searching for alternative forms of cost-effective learning. Director’s Statement: Andrew Rossi I’m really drawn to stories that are about disruption, TIMES Director: Andrew Rossi particularly in worlds that are seemingly impenetrable or Producers: Andrew Rossi, Josh Braun invincible. So I’ve looked at the newspaper industry, in Sunday 12:00pm Executive Producers: Vinnie particular The New York Times, and now at the crisis Malhotra, Amy Entelis in higher education today. Ivory Tower is about how Co-Producer: Kate Novack colleges occupy a place of moral authority in our culture, Associate Producer: Andrew Coffman and about what we as students and as parents can get out Cinematographers: Andrew Rossi, of it, what it does well, what it doesn’t do well. Bryan Sarkinen, Andrew Coffman We look at historical education efforts such as FDR’s Second Bill of Rights, Editors: Chad Beck, Christopher the GI Bill, and Lyndon Johnson’s Higher Education Act of 1965, which Branca, Andrew Coffman created the student loan system that has now sort of spiraled out of control. Music: Ian Hultquist All were based on the premise that anyone should be able to go to college, even if they don’t have the money to do so. And then we look at the Reagan era, in which that view really shifted and economists argued that higher education is a private good versus a public good. Selected Filmography: Le Cirque: A Table in Heaven, Page One: Inside the New York Times
Kiss the Water 80 minutes | 2013 | USA, United Kingdom | In Competition n a small cottage in Scotland, looking out her window at the North Sea, Megan Boyd once twirled bits of exotic feathers and colorful fur, silver Iand gold into fishing flies which were miniature, magical works of art and deadly effectiveness. Though she never fly-fished herself, (she hated the idea of killing), wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name was whispered in mythic reverie. First the local lads and landed gentry appeared, then lords from London — even a Prince came to her humble doorstep, as if her flies magically lured them there. With stunning cinematography and expressive, hand-painted animation, her story has the arc of a perfectly cast line, the romance and dark mystery of a fairy tale waiting to be told.
TIMES Director: Eric Steel Director’s Statement: Eric Steel Producers: Eric Steel, Kate Swan For a documentary filmmaker, I suppose I am Friday 12:20pm Executive Producer: Andrea unusually fascinated by the unstable blur be- Saturday 9:20pm Calderwood tween reality and dreams, between what can be Cinematographer: Ole Birkeland Sunday 9:50am seen and what can only be imagined; between Editor: Sabine Krayenbühl the surface and the subtext, in the words and Music: Paul Cantelon the silence between the words. I discovered P L A Y S W I T H Animator: Em Cooper Megan Boyd from her obituary — she was a woman I would never know, in a Notes on Blindness kiss-the-water.com country I had never visited — and yet just from the description I read in the (page 55) paper, I felt I had been invited on a journey. Megan Boyd’s work, her craft, was both a fantasy and a metaphor. She learned to make her elaborate flies by unwinding old unusable ones and rewinding them on even smaller hooks, turning them back into magic and seduction — and so, I too began to unravel Megan’s life, her world, and to spin it back into something rather mysterious and suggestive. Selected Filmography: The Bridge
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PAGE 36 DOCUMENTARIES Last Days in Vietnam 98 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition uring the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, a skeleton crew of American diplomats and military personnel face a moral quandary. As Dthe North Vietnamese Army closes in on Saigon, these Americans fear the certain imprisonment and possible death of their South Vietnamese allies, co-workers, and friends. With a Communist victory inevitable, and the last of the Americans ordered to withdraw, the prospect of an official evacuation of the South Vietnamese is made all but impossible by gridlocked US policy. With the clock ticking and Saigon under fire, a few heroic Americans take matters into their own hands, engaging in unsanctioned and often makeshift operations in a desperate effort to save as many South Vietnamese lives as possible before it is too late. [subtitles]
Director’s Statement: Rory Kennedy TIMES Director: Rory Kennedy Producers: Rory Kennedy, On April 29, 1975, the USS Kirk was stationed off the Friday 12:00pm Keven McAlester coast of South Vietnam as part of the fleet facilitating Executive Producer: Mark Samels the official helicopter evacuation of Saigon. This was Screenwriters: Mark Bailey, two years after the American military withdrawal from Keven McAlester the conflict; any and all military action in Vietnam Cinematographer: Joan Churchill was now forbidden by US law. The Kirk was a minor Editor: Don Kleszy warship, only capable of holding a single helicopter at Music: Gary Lionelli any given time, and her role in the evacuation was to Animator: Doug Whitney be strictly reconnaissance. During the next 2 days, With: Hugh Doyle, Kiem Do, however, the ship’s captain engaged in a series of improvised, unapproved Stuart Herrington, Henry Kissinger, maneuvers to save the lives of more than 30,000 desperate South Vietnamese Paul Jacobs refugees. It was the fascinating, unknown story of a great humanitarian rescue mission at the end of the war, but it also struck me as something bigger. Bigger lastdaysinvietnam.com and profoundly relevant to the world today. Selected Filmography: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The Fence (AIFF11), Ethel (AIFF12)
Marmato 87 minutes | 2014 | USA, Colombia | In Competition olombia is at the center of a new global gold rush, and the small mountain- top town of Marmato is the new frontier. Mined for over 500 years with Conly lamps and hand-held tools, Marmato’s mountain of gold is both a blessing and a curse. A multinational Canadian corporation plans an open-pit mining project that will extract $20 billion dollars in gold, but will also inevitably displace Marmato’s 8,000 inhabitants and destroy their homes. A traditional community stands at the edge of change and potential prosperity, but since it will require the actual leveling of its mountain of gold, is that a price worth paying? 1 Filmed over 5 /2 years, Marmato superimposes a canvas of magical realism over the specter of corporate globalization as it chronicles the townspeople’s struggle to confront the mining company and protect their culture. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Mark Grieco Director: Mark Grieco TIMES The town has a storied history of over 500 years of Producer: Stuart Reid small-scale, artisanal miners tunneling into the mountain Executive Producer: Mark Achbar Saturday 10:10am to extract gold. This precious metal has sustained these Screenwriters: Mark Grieco, Stuart Reid Sunday 12:40pm communities for generations, but now many argue Cinematographer: Mark Grieco their methods are dangerous, unsustainable, and are Monday 9:40pm Editors: Ricardo Acosta, Mark Grieco contaminating the region’s waterways. The government Music: Todd Boekelheide and mining companies want to extract on a massive Animator: Noah Conti scale, claiming it will improve the lives of the miners With: José Dumar Velez, Conrado Trejos, and the environment. Many do not believe their promises and want to continue Johann Bolaños, Luis Gonzaga Diaz, P L A Y S W I T H : living as they always have. I feel it is my job to bear witness to the complexity Granada Lawrence Perkes You Have the Right of those involved and the subsequent effect each has on the other. The real www.marmatomovie.comto an Attorney challenge and ambition of Marmato is not to take a side on who is right and (page 45) who is wrong, but to expose how a takeover like this evolves, and above all to examine who benefits and who suffers. Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial debut
PAGE 37 DOCUMENTARIES Mistaken for Strangers 75 minutes | 2013 | USA ailed by Michael Moore as “one of the best documentaries about a band that I’ve ever seen,” Mistaken for Strangers is an unusual and moving film Habout two brothers, Matt and Tom Berninger. Matt, the lead singer of the acclaimed indie rock band The National, finally finds himself flush with suc- cess on the eve of the band’s biggest international tour to date. In contrast, his younger brother, Tom, is a loveable slacker, metalhead, and under-employed filmmaker still living with his parents in Cincinnati. When Matt brings Tom on tour as a roadie, Tom secretly decides to film the entire adventure. What starts out as a rock documentary soon becomes something more: a loving, hilarious, and maddening portrait of brothers and creativity. [mature] Director’s Statement: Tom Berninger My brother’s a rock star and I’m not. A few years ago, I was living in Cincinnati, making my own short films. TIMES Director: Tom Berninger Producers: Matt Berninger, Carin In New York, things were starting to happen for my brother’s band, The National: the new record (High Saturday 9:00pm Besser, Craig Charland Executive Producer: Marshall Curry Violet) hit the Billboard charts, and all their shows were Co-Producer: Dawn Barger, Brandon selling out. He invited me to come help out on tour, Reid, The National and I decided to bring my camera. I found working on Cinematographer: Tom Berninger tour much harder than I imagined, especially balancing Editors: Tom Berninger, Carin Besser that with making this movie. They were a well-oiled machine, so I turned the Music: The National camera on myself — my struggles, ambitions, thoughts, and fears. It wasn’t With: Tom Berninger, Matt Berninger, easy putting myself out there as much as I did, but it did help me shed light on The National my relationship with Matt. We’re much closer now because of the film, which is the ultimate triumph. mistakenforstrangersmovie.com Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial Debut
Monk With a Camera: The Life and 72 minutes | 2013 | USA, India | In Competition Journey of Nicholas Vreeland onk with a Camera follows the improbable life of photographer and Buddhist monk Nicholas “Nicky” Vreeland, grandson of fashion icon andM Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland and son of European diplomats. A blue-blooded jet setter in the 1960s, he learned photography as an assistant to both Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. In the late 1970s, Nicky met the venerable Buddhist teacher Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, founder of the Tibet Center in New York, and studied under him for years before becoming a Buddhist monk himself. When the Dalai Lama appointed him as abbot of Rato Dratsang monastery in India, he told him, “Your special duty is to bridge Tibetan tradition and the Western world.” The traveling exhibition of Vreeland’s renowned black and white photographs of Tibet has done just that, raising $500,000 to rebuild the medieval and historic Rato Dratsang. Directors’ Statement: Tina Mascara & Guido Santi This film marks our second collaboration as filmmakers. TIMES Directors: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi Producers: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi, We decided to make Monk with a Camera after reading an Thursday 3:20pm Vishwanath Alluri article about Nicky Vreeland in an Indian newspaper. We immediately thought of him as a modern day Siddhartha, Friday 9:50am Executive Producers: Andrew Herwitz, Leonardo Colla a man who leaves a life of privilege and wealth in search Saturday 12:20pm Cinematographer: Ugo Lo Pinto of enlightenment. We always thought this type of story Sunday 6:20pm Editors: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi belonged to the past, to the world of literature more than Music: Aldo De Scalzi, Pivio to today’s world, but were surprised to learn otherwise. With: Nicholas Vreeland, Khylongla Meeting Nicky took us on journey and into a reality that Rinpoche, His Holiness the 14th Dalai we never knew existed. It was not only about getting to Lama, Richard Gere, John Avedon know his personal story, but also getting to know the reality of the thousands of Tibetan people who live in the protected areas of India. It was a life-changing www.monkwithacamera.com experience, one we will treasure for a long time. Selected Filmography: Chris & Don: A Love Story
PAGE 38 DOCUMENTARIES My Prairie Home 76 minutes | 2013 | Canada ndie singer/songwriter Rae Spoon takes us on a playful journey across the Imajestic expanse of the Canadian Prairie, through landscapes both real and emotional. Not a conventional concert film or biography, this documentary- musical occupies a beautiful space in between. Interviews, performances, and poetic visual sequences reveal Spoon’s inspiring process of building a life as a transgender person. As the camera captures Alberta’s haunting landscapes from the windows of a Greyhound bus or through the curtains of a tiny motel room, viewers are immersed in Spoon’s experiences from an upbringing in a deeply religious — and deeply troubled — home to bracingly personal and reflective songs, performed at truck stop diners and wherever else the imagination allows. My Prairie Home is an unforgettable look at a unique Canadian artist. TIMES Director: Chelsea McMullan Director’s Statement: Chelsea McMullan Producer: Lea Marin The first time I heard Rae’s music, I remember having a Thursday 6:30pm Screenwriter: Chelsea McMullan visceral reaction to the voice. My whole body began to Friday 9:30pm Cinematographer: Maya Bankovic, Derek Howard tingle, and I felt a sense of nostalgia and longing. When Saturday 3:30pm Editor: Avril Jacobson Rae and I began collaborating, I realized it’s all in the music. Sunday 10:00am Music: Rae Spoon Rae carefully wraps secrets in a sparse melodic voice. This Monday 9:30pm With: Rae Spoon spawned the idea not only to make a documentary, but also to use Rae’s music to tell the story. The challenge was getting the money to make it in the first place. Admittedly, it’s a weird pitch: “I want to make a docu- mentary about a trans musician from Alberta told through musical numbers... and there’s going to be dinosaurs.” But Rae defies gender and I felt like the film needed to pay tribute by telling the story in a fittingly genre-defying way. Selected Filmography: Derailments
Of Kites and Borders 59 minutes | 2013 | USA, Mexico, Spain | In Competition f Kites and Borders tells the story of the daily struggle to live on the US–Mexico border through the eyes of four children in Tijuana. Edie is a Oteenager who smuggles migrants into the US and then spends his hard earned dollars on cockfighting, the only passion that helps him escape his bitter reality. Carmela, a nine-year-old girl who scavenges scrap metal in city dumps, fantasizes of a better life while watching the kites that fly above the towering assembly plants (maquilas) that crown her slum. At busy intersections, Fernando and his brother Adrián support their family by performing masked wrestling matches, just like the famous Mexican luchadores they dream of becoming. A story of hope and survival that goes beyond the headlines to explore the fundamental nature of immigration and the persistence of childhood dreams. [subtitles]
TIMES Director: Yolanda Pividal Director’s Statement: Yolanda Pividal Producer: Yolanda Pividal I arrived in New York City from my hometown Executive Producer: Yolanda Pividal Thursday 12:10p in Spain nine years ago. As an immigrant myself, Co-Producers: Sara Booth, Friday 9:40am most of my documentary work has explored the Yolanda Pividal Saturday 9:10pm immigrant condition both in the big city and Screenwriters: Angel L. Lara, Sunday 6:10pm at the border. This exploration has taken me to Yolanda Pividal Tijuana — the most crossed checkpoint on the Monday 9:10pm Cinematographers: Carmen Vidal, US–Mexico border — many times. During one of my trips I met Edie, Yolanda Pividal Carmela, Adrián, and Fernando, children who, like most of the kids I met P L A Y S W I T H Editors: Yolanda Pividal, Sara Booth, there, were not just passive victims of violence and misery but people who Jaime Sagi-vela Tiger Boy draw upon their dreams and imagination to break free of the borders, Music: Andrés Belmonte, Alfonso Arias both visible and invisible that confine their daily existence. I made this (page 80) With: Carmela Badena, Eduardo documentary not just because of my passion for storytelling, but because Escobar, Fernando Gómez, I realized that in Tijuana the border is more than just a solid concrete wall — it Adrián Gómez is something you feel, speak, and breathe. www.ofkitesandborders.com Selected Filmography: Tijuana Nada Más, Two Dollar Dance
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TravelMedford.org DOCUMENTARIES Rich Hill 90 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition ich Hill, Missouri, population 1,393; 70 miles south of Kansas City, 15 miles east of the Kansas border. Once a thriving mining town, Rich RHill today has a sizable jobless population and many vulnerable families. A story echoed in towns across America, Rich Hill is a rare, intimate look at the struggles, hopes, and dreams of three boys: Andrew, 13, who calls his family “gypsies” because they move every few months, often with only the clothes on their back; Harley, 15, who yearns for his imprisoned mother while living with his grandmother and eight members of his extended family; and Appachey, 12, who vies for attention even if it means getting violent. Poverty, absent parents, and challenges at school don’t stop the boys from longing for a brighter future. TIMES Directors: Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo Directors’ Statement: Tracy Droz Tragos, Thursday 3:40pm Producers: Tracy Droz Tragos, Andrew Droz Palermo Friday 10:10am Andrew Droz Palermo Executive Producers: I made my first documentary, Be Good, Smile Monday 10:10am Robert A. Compton, Michael J. Zak Pretty, after discovering a picture of my father Cinematographer: the day he was killed in Vietnam. The film was Andrew Droz Palermo well received and won the Emmy Award for Editor: Jim Hession Best Documentary in 2004. It was difficult to Music: Nathan Halpern find another film project with such a deep con- nection, but in 2011, I formed a partnership with my first cousin, Andrew richhillfilm.com Droz Palermo, and found that we shared an enduring relationship with our parents’ hometown of Rich Hill, Missouri. As a child, I spent every summer and winter break there. Like many other struggling rural towns across America, the conditions have become increasingly bleak. Yet, despite the grief that Andrew and I felt around its current circumstances, it was still a place of belonging and connection for us. It is an honor to share its stories with you. Selected Filmography: Tracy Droz Tragos – Be Good, Smile Pretty; Andrew Droz Palermo – Directorial Debut
Running From Crazy 105 minutes | 2013 | USA n Barbara Kopple’s latest film, actress Mariel Hemingway (Academy Award® nominee, Manhattan) strives to understand her family’s heartbreaking Ihistory. Mariel grew up on the Hemingway family farm in Idaho, the same place her famous grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, took his own life months before she was born. The youngest of three girls, Mariel’s supermodel sister, Margaux, also committed suicide in 1996, while Muffet has suffered with mental illness all her life. As Mariel struggles with the tragedies that have shaped her, she finds a way to overcome a similar fate by embracing a mindful and healthy lifestyle. Rare archival footage of the Hemingway sisters hauntingly reveals deeply hidden secrets as Mariel learns to accept her “birthright” with compassion and love. Director’s Statement: Barbara Kopple TIMES Director: Barbara Kopple Producers: Barbara Kopple, Running From Crazy has been an amazing journey for Saturday 12:00pm David Cassidy me as a filmmaker. This documentary offered me an Executive Producers: incredibly interesting opportunity to delve into the history Barbara Kopple, Erica Forstadt, Lisa of a famous American family that has left such an Erspamer, Oprah Winfrey indelible mark on literature and culture. Many people Associate Producers: Madeleine think of the Hemingways as a doomed family. I hope this Akers, Kelly Brennan film will change this perception and offer some insight on Cinematographers: Andrew Young, what it’s like to come from a family with a tragic past and be Boone Speed, Michael Call able to find a way to rise above the sadness. I continue to draw inspiration from Editors: Michael Culyba, Mona Davis Mariel and admire her positivity, her ability to evolve as a person, and her With: Mariel Hemingway, Margaux bravery in her willingness to delve into the darker aspects of her past and Hemingway, Joan “Muffet” Hemingway deeply reflect on these events. My hope for this film is twofold. I hope it will give us all a new and deeper understanding of the Hemingway family and give cabincreekfilms.com those afflicted with depression and mental illness hope for the future. Selected Filmography: Harlan County USA, American Dream, Shut Up and Sing
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PAGE 42 DOCUMENTARIES Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde 93 minutes | 2013 | USA unning Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde is the self-told tale of a colorful 6'5" cowboy whose destiny led him on a dramatic and meaningful journey Rthrough the American West — from working ranches and cattle drives, to rodeos and conservation battles, wild horse rescues, personal heartbreak, and finally to new found love. One of America’s last remaining true cowboys, Dayton O. Hyde has dedicated the last 25 years to protecting wild horses on a sanctuary he founded in the Black Hills of South Dakota, the only such refuge in the country. Through his award-winning poetry and prose, his successes in land and wildlife conservation, and now in intimate interviews on film, Dayton O. Hyde recalls the grandeur of the Old West, while reminding us of the importance of protecting its natural resources today. Director’s Statement: Suzanne Mitchell TIMES Director: Suzanne Mitchell Producer: Suzanne Mitchell When I first encountered Dayton Hyde, he was Friday 3:00pm Executive Producer: Barbara Kopple living alone on 11,000 acres in the Black Hills Cinematographer: Mauro Brattoli of South Dakota, surrounded by the thundering Editor: R.A. Fedde hooves of wild horses and the music of songbirds. Music: Steve Poltz His stories of the West and his passion for wild- Animator: Beehive life captivated me, and I knew I would be back With: Dayton O. Hyde, Dayton Hyde Jr., to create a film about a man who found freedom Gerta Hyde, Ginny Hyde, Susan Watt through the horses he is saving. Twenty years later, Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde runningwildfilm.com captures the essence of a man who as a cowboy, a poet, and an inspiration, has handed his heart over to the West. The film looks back on his rich, diverse life and looks forward to his legacy, opening the eyes of a new generation to the beauty and fragility of what is left of this natural landscape. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
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PAGE 44 DOCUMENTARIES Sometimes I Dream I’m Flying 51 minutes | 2013 | Poland ometimes I Dream I’m Flying quietly observes the commitment and passion, but also the loneliness and pain of an outstanding young Polish Sballerina. As a student living away from home at the Warsaw Ballet School, and then as a young professional with a brilliant international career in front of her, Weronika works tirelessly to perfect her craft. We catch fleeting glimpses of her disappointment or exhaustion through a taxicab window or in a brief phone call to her mother, but they are momentary setbacks and remain in the background. Her dedication is absolute. When she suffers an injury requiring surgery just two days before her debut at the Berlin Opera, she brushes aside what would be an unbearable blow to anyone else, and puts her body — and her life — in motion again. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka TIMES Director: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka Producers: Michal Popiel-Machnicki, During the filming I was most moved by the Friday 10:00am Aneta Popiel-Machnicka tremendous solitude of our heroine — the ballet dancer. Looking at her daily struggles with her Saturday 6:30pm Executive Producer: Agnieszka Janowska body, weaknesses and fears, I realized how all the Sunday 9:30pm Screenwriter: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka people that we call artists are reliant on themselves; Monday 10:00am Cinematographer: the power of their mind, talent, character. No one can replace them in their Michal Popiel-Machnicki own work. They have to make choices on their own and face the audience. P L A Y S W I T H Editor: Aneta Popiel-Machnicka Creating art means loneliness; in the case of dance, it also means solitude and Music: Rafal Kulczycki the pressure of one careless step that can ruin your whole effort. A Man’s Place With: Weronika Frodyma, Anna Linnik, Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut (page 55) Sergey Basalayev, Mauritzio Giannetti Buffalo Dreams (page 50)
This Ain’t No Mouse Music! 92 minutes | 2013 | USA
hris Strachwitz is a detective of sounds, an archaeologist of deep American music, and he loathes what he calls “mouse music,” the generic, corporate Csound that dominates pop culture today. For 50 years, he has carried his tape recorder from sharecropper shacks to roadside honkytonks, from cantina dives to wild Blues clubs. The guiding force behind legendary Arhoolie Records, his recordings helped bring Cajun music out of Louisiana, Tex Mex out of Texas, and Blues out of the South. In This Ain’t No Mouse Music!, we join roots music icon Strachwitz on a passionate quest for the musical soul of America. With Lightnin’ Hopkins, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, the Savoy Family Band, and so many more! Directors’ Statement: Chris Simon & Maureen Gosling TIMES Directors: Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon Producers: Maureen Gosling, Chris Simon Sometimes the most obvious story takes a Friday 9:00pm Screenwriters: Maureen Gosling, long time to recognize. We’ve known Chris Chris Simon Strachwitz and have been an intimate part of Cinematographer: Chris Simon the Arhoolie Records family for over 35 years. Editor: Maureen Gosling However, it wasn’t until eight years ago that it Music: Various occurred to us that we should make a film to share Mr. Chris’ remarkable With: Lightnin’ Hopkins, Chris Strachwitz, story. We hit the road with Chris in the spring of 2005, filming as he visited old Les Blank, Treme Brass Band, Richard friends and found new musicians to record. It was also a journey home for us, Thompson, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, back to the places, music, and lives of people we know and love from making Taj Mahal, Archie Green, Lionel Batiste, films with documentary filmmaker Les Blank. For us, the film represents an Sr., Michael Doucet, Jerry Brock, opportunity to share the story of an unsung hero who’s left an indelible mark Henry Youngblood, Savoy Family Band, on American culture — in fact, on the culture of the world. It’s just the tip of Santiago Jiménez, Jr., Flaco Jiménez, the iceberg of music that Strachwitz has documented for eight decades. Los Cenzontles, Tom Diamant Selected Filmography: Chris Simon – I Hear What You See: The Old-Time World of Kenny Hall, no mousemusic.com Gap-Toothed Women (AIFF07); Maureen Gosling – Blossoms of Fire
PAGE 45 DOCUMENTARIES Uranium Drive-In 70 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n emotional debate over a proposed uranium mill in southwestern Colorado — the first to be built in the US in 30 years — pits a population Adesperate for jobs and financial stability against an environmental group based in nearby Telluride, an upscale resort town. Uranium Drive-In combines a discussion of what constitutes sustainable energy in the US today with the personal stories of people directly affected by the mill. The film follows three main characters: Tami Lowrance, mayor of Naturita and strong proponent of development; Ayngel Overson, struggling mother of four who longs for the survival of her town but has mixed feelings about the mill; and Jennifer Thurston, an environmental activist fighting to stop the project. This character- driven story offers no easy answers but aims instead to highlight the personal experiences behind this nuanced and complex issue.
TIMES Director: Suzan Beraza Director’s Statement: Suzan Beraza Producer: Michelle Maughan, Judith I live in Telluride, home to the environmental organi- Thursday 9:00pm Kohin, Casey Nay zation opposing the uranium mill. I followed the Friday 3:00pm Executive Producers: issue of the proposed mill from early meetings and Barrett Toan, Polly O’Brien debates, pro and con. I went into the project assuming Saturday 9:30am Cinematographers: Jim Hurst, that this mill was a bad idea. After all, I consider myself Ben Knight an environmentalist and I was concerned about P L A Y S W I T H Editor: Casey Nay the impact of the new mill on our watershed. After Music: Salesman, The Dimes, spending two years in this community really getting to know people and Elvis Loses His Excess Massive Attack why they so desperately wanted the mill, I grew to understand that the & Other Tales From With: Jennifer Thurston, Ayngel issue wasn’t nearly as black and white as I had originally assumed. While The World’s Longest Overson, Tami Lowrance I am still not a nuclear energy convert, I am aware that it may need to be Yard Sale part of our energy future if we expect to dramatically reduce our planet’s (page 51) uraniumdrivein.com carbon emissions. Selected Filmography: Life’s a Beach, Bag It (AIFF10 Rogue Creamery Audience Award)
Watchers of the Sky 115 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition ow do you make a film about genocide? With penetrating interviews and stunning animation, we are witness to four uplifting stories of courage Hand compassion. Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize–winning book A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power, Watchers of the Sky interweaves the stories of four visionary humanitarians with that of unknown hero and human rights lawyer Raphael Lemkin. Shining a light into traditionally inaccessible places, Watchers of the Sky takes us on a remarkable journey from Nuremberg to The Hague, from Bosnia to Darfur, from criminality to justice, and from apathy to action. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Edet Belzberg My film is about Raphael Lemkin, who gave his life to stop mass atrocities. He coined the word “genocide” and TIMES Director: Edet Belzberg Producers: Amelia Green-Dove, created one of the first international human rights laws Kerry Propper, Edet Belzberg ever passed. Through his story we also tell the story of Thursday 12:00pm four other individuals who’ve committed their lives to Saturday 3:00pm Executive Producers: Elizabeth Bohart, Dan Cogan, Stanley Buchthal stop mass atrocities and to create a legal system that Sunday 6:00pm Co-Producers: Karen Sim, Lisa Chanoff would help prevent these types of crimes. Cinematographers: Sam Cullman, He was at the UN every day. He single-handedly Mai Iskanderm, Jerry Risius, pushed through the genocide convention. Done by one man. One of the Nelson Walker characters in the film tells an incredible story about watchers in the sky, which Editors: Karen Sim, Jenny Golden is really about continuation, that we might not see the impact of our work Music: Claudio Ragazzi today, or even in our lifetime, but that someone might pick up the torch and Animators: Molly Schwartz, Dana continue that work. Schechter, Garry Waller, Eyal Ohana Selected Filmography: Children Undergound, The Recruiter
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PAGE 46 DOCUMENTARIES Web 83 minutes | 2013 | USA, Peru | In Competition or almost a year, director Michael Kleiman lived with families in remote regions of Peru while well-meaning entrepreneurs with the One Laptop Fper Child (OLPC) program attempted to bring the Internet to local school- children for the first time. In addition to documenting how the children and their families use new technologies, the film shows the villagers’ decidedly less-technological daily lives and the deep bonds of friendship they form with Michael. Web considers both the potential of technological connection — new possibilities for dialogue, cultural exchange, and education — while also considering what might be lost — the rise of distraction, a loss of tradition- al culture, and a breakdown of our understanding of the word “connection” itself. The warm and humorous narrative in Peru is intercut with interviews with leading thinkers on the Internet, including OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte and Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales. [subtitles] TIMES Director: Michael Kleiman Producers: Michael Kleiman, Michael Director’s Statement: Michael Kleiman Pertnoy, Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki At its heart, Web is a film about friendships — how they Thursday 3:00pm are formed, what they mean, how far they can stretch with Friday 9:30am Executive Producers: Kevin Iwashina, Ross Dinerstein the help of technology, and how they are changed in that Sunday 9:30am Cinematographers: Humberto Saco, process. It’s a tension we can all relate to and therefore Cesar Fajardo, Josh Miller one that allows us to recognize the common humanity we Editors: Michael Kleiman, all share. I hope the film will allow people to reflect on Michael Pertnoy the power information technology has to bring our world Music: Dan Teicher together, but also how the human experience is changed as our existences Animator: Goran Krstc become increasingly digital. Selected Filmography: The Last Survivor ahumanright.org/web
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PAGE 49 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Brooklyn Farmer 27 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition xplores the unique challenges facing Brooklyn Grange, a group of urban farmers who run the world’s largest commercially viable rooftop farms in Eone of the world’s biggest cities: New York. The film follows head farmer Ben Flanner and his team as they expand their operation from Long Island City, Queens, to a second 2.5 acre rooftop in Brooklyn. They work tirelessly to plant and harvest a viable crop in time for summer.
Director: Michael Tyburski Director’s Statement: Michael Tyburski TIMES Producers: Ben Nabors, Burke Cherrie We started the film by documenting the build-out of the Th 6:20pm Executive Producer: Ben Nabors new rooftop project, but after tracking the farmers for a Sa 3:20pm, Su 9:20pm Cinematographers: Todd Banhazl, couple days it was obvious that our lens needed to widen Mo 6:20pm Julia Dengel, Filipp Penson to capture the daily hustle of some of the hardest workers Editor: Paul Greenhouse Music: Matt Abeysekera, Liam Cohl, I’ve met in New York City. I grew up around farms in P L A Y S I N Mike Poskanzer rural Vermont, so I welcomed filming in a pastoral Short Docs (p 49) With: Ben Flanner, Gwen Schantz, setting while being in the middle of my new urban home. Anastasia Cole Plakias, Michael Meier, Selected Filmography: Angelfish, Palimpsest (AIFF13) Chase Emmons, Michael Bloomberg grouptheory.co/brooklynfarmer
Buffalo Dreams 16 minutes | 2013 | Scotland, United Kingdom n America, buffalo are a powerful symbol of American culture, once again roaming the plains and our imaginations. They made a lifelong impression on IScott Shand, Scotland’s only commercial bison farmer. In Buffalo Dreams, we see Scott confront the harsh realities of establishing and expanding his enterprise in the sometimes unforgiving, yet beautifully striking Aberdeen landscape. Against great odds, with the future of the herd in question, can his crazy dream survive? Director’s Statement: Maurice O’Brien Buffalo Dreams deals with the huge obstacles faced by a family TIMES Director: Maurice O’Brien aiming to become Scotland’s first commercial bison farmers. Producer: David Martin I first came upon the bison herd by accident and couldn’t Executive Producers: Sonja Henrici & Fr 10am , Sa 6:30pm, believe my eyes — they were like a scene from a Western Su 9:30pm , Mo 10am Noe Mendelle Cinematographer: Fraser Rice transposed to a cliff in Aberdeen. They’re such amazing P L A Y S W I T H Editor: David Arthur animals, and it was this plus my farming roots back home Music: Spook of the Thirteenth Lock in Ireland that initially inspired the idea. The film is also Sometimes I Dream about how far we go to make our dreams a reality — which as a filmmaker I can I’m Flying (p 45) A Man’s Place (p 55) definitely relate to. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut CaveDigger Academy Award® Nominee | 39 minutes | 2013 | USA eet 65 year old artist Ra Paulette who, with shovel and pickaxe, sculpts amazing, cathedral-like art caves out of sandstone found only Min the cliffs of New Mexico. Driven by his unique artistic vision, he is often frustrated with unappreciative patrons, poverty, and his aging body, which causes him to question the future of his career. Director’s Statement: Jeffrey Karoff I think Ra has eschewed attention for most of his life. Even after almost 30 years of cave digging, he hasn’t really reached out to the wider public. He would tell TIMES Director: Jeffrey Karoff Producer: Jeffrey Karoff me recognition was not important. He’s Friday 9:30am Cinematographer: Anghel Decca had many individuals say, “Your art has Editor: Erin Nordstrom changed my life,” and he said, “In that way, I have gotten more important P L A Y S I N Music: Pete Min recognition than many artists who are famous. I don’t need more than that.” With: Ra Paulette, Shel Neymark, Liz Oscar Shorts 1 (p 49) But there seemed to be something that was ready to be ignited in him about Riedel, Pierre de Lattre being recognized. Now that it’s happening, I think he’s liking it a lot. cavediggerdocumentary.com
PAGE 50 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Elvis Loses His Excess & Other Tales 19 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition From the World’s Longest Yard Sale ravel US Highway 127 from Michigan to Alabama during four days in the first week of August, and you’ll explore the world’s longest yard sale, Tan annual event now in its 26th year. Here we encounter the colorful people and the objects they buy and sell, as well as the stories they tell of love, loss, renewal, and nostalgia, weaving a tapestry of humanity and American culture. And of course, there’s an Elvis impersonator too… Director’s Statement: Riley Hooper TIMES Director: Riley Hooper Producers: Riley Hooper, Several years ago I made a short documentary about a yard Th 9pm, Fr 3pm Katrina Sorrentino sale. It’s full of the most wonderfully quirky characters. When Sa 9:30am Cinematographers: Riley Hooper, I read an article about the world’s longest yard sale, I knew this Katrina Sorrentino was a film I had to make. Over the course of four days and P L A Y S W I T H Editor: Riley Hooper 690 miles of sale, this film is similarly driven by the people we Uranium Drive-In Music: Eugene Levy encountered, who warmed our hearts with stories as varied as (p 46) rileymakesdocs.com/elvis the landscapes we traversed. Selected Filmography: FLO (AIFF13 Best Short Documentary) Facing Fear Academy Award® Nominee | 23 minutes | 2013 | USA t 13, Matthew Boger was thrown out of his home for being gay. While living on the streets of Hollywood, he was savagely beaten by neo-Nazi Askinheads. Worlds collide when a chance meeting 25 years later brings him face to face with Tim Zaal, one of his attackers. They embark on a journey of forgiveness that challenges both to grapple with their beliefs and fears, and leads to an improbable friendship. [mature] Director’s Statement: Jason Cohen In the film Tim says, “I don’t know if I could forgive TIMES Director: Jason Cohen somebody the way he’s [Matthew] been able to forgive Producer: Jason Cohen me.” That statement really struck a chord with me. It was Sunday 9:30am Executive Producer: T.M. Christopher something I thought about throughout the production Screenwriter: Jason Cohen of the film. I was often asking myself the question: How Cinematographer: Svetlana Cvetko P L A Y S I N Editor: T.M. Christopher would I handle this if I was thrown into this extraordinary Oscar Shorts 2 (p 49) Music: David Kesler situation? That self-reflection is something that I feel the With: Matthew Boger, Tim Zaal viewer will also be forced to examine after seeing the film. facingfearmovie.com Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
Godka Circa–A Hole in the Sky 10 minutes | 2013 | USA, Spain | In Competition oung Alifa looks up at the sky and thinks about her daily life as a shepherdess in Beerato. She knows the day that will change her life Yforever is about to come. A poetic depiction of life in a remote village in wind-swept, drought-stricken Somaliland. Director’s Statement: Antonio Tibaldi & Alex Lora This is a short episode of a feature length project we would like to make. We hope that our mesmerizing observation will bring a new perspective to how we look at the lives TIMES Directors: Antonio Tibaldi, Alex Lora of ordinary women living in an extraordinary (to western Producers: Martine Vidalenc, Valerie eyes) place. Th 6:20pm, Delpierre, Francis Mead Sa 3:20pm, Su 9:20pm Executive Producer: Alex Kruz Selected Filmography: Antonio Tibaldi – Lupo Mannaro, Claudine’s Return, Little Mo 6:20pm Screenwriters: Alex Lora, Antonio Boy Blue; Alex Lora – Only Solomon Lee, Matches, Odysseus’ Gambit P L A Y S I N Tibaldi, Amina Souleiman GoingP L A Yfor S Gold: I N Cinematographer: Antonio Tibaldi Editors: Antonio Tibaldi, Alex Lora OlympicShort Docs Shorts (p 49) with Lucy Walker (p 47) With: Sahra Cige Diirye, Khadija Haji, Faadumo Isma’il a holeinthesky.org
PAGE 51 PAGE 52 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES Hacked Circuit 15 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition Foley artist uses a surprising catalog of items to enhance sound effects in post-production. Filmed in one take, this study of a Foley artist at work Abecomes a fascinating exploration of cinema versus reality, until we’re not sure we trust what’s right before our eyes and ears. That the film within this film is Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, a prophetic 1974 thriller about government eavesdropping, adds to our sense of unease. Director’s Statement: Deborah Stratman It took two years of scouting trips to Foley stages around Los Angleles before I found the right one. It had to be a stand- TIMES Director: Deborah Stratman Producer: Deborah Stratman alone stage, in a neighborhood where I could go around the Th 6:20pm Screenwriter: Deborah Stratman block in a short time. The big studio stages are beautiful, and Sa 3:20pm, Su 9:20pm Cinematographer: Norbert Shieh crammed with many wonderful props, but I needed a real Mo 6:20pm Steadicam: Nate Elegino street where life was going by, unobstructed. So as the film With: Gregg Barbanell & Darrin Mann progresses, you have multiple and shifting suspicions about what is real and P L A Y S I N pythagorasfilm.com/hacked-circuit what is fabricated. Short Docs (p 49) Selected Filmography: Immortal, Suspended, Village
I think this is the closest to how the footage looked 9 minutes | 2012 | Israel husband films his dying wife’s last day, but accidently loses the footage. This poignant documentary captures the desperate efforts to recreate the Aprecious missing film sequence using simple household objects, and delivers a uniquely crafted depiction of the importance of memory in the depths of one’s grief. [subtitles] Directors’ Statement: Yuval Hameiri & Michal Vaknin We humanized ordinary objects such as a tube of paint, a door handle, or a pepper grinder. We used this creative Directors: Yuval Hameiri, Michal Vaknin strategy to both hide and reveal the pain and inevitability TIMES Producer: Yuval Hameiri of that day. Midway through the film, you learn the Friday 6:20pm Executive Producer: Yuval Hameiri practical reason for the objects. Screenwriter: Yuval Hameiri Saturday 9:50am Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Sunday 3:20pm Cinematographer: Elina Margolin Editors: Yuval Hameiri, Yair Asher P L A Y S W I T H Music: Dan K.dar Dangerous Acts (p. 31) go2films.com
Karama Has No Walls Academy Award® Nominee | 26 minutes | 2012 | United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Yemen hen pro-government snipers shot 53 peaceful protestors dead, hundreds of thousands of Yemeni citizens joined in a nationwide uprising. WThrough the lenses of two remarkably brave cameramen and the heart- breaking accounts of two fathers whose children were among the victims, this often shocking, always riveting documentary tells the story beyond statistics and news reports, and brings to life the tragic events as they unfolded. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Sara Ishaq It shook me how little I and everyone else knew Director: Sara Ishaq about the actual attacks that took place on that day, TIMES Producers: Setara Films & Hot Spot Films and even less about the victims and their families Friday 9:30am Cinematographer: Ameen Al-Ghaberi whose lives were irreparably shattered. Meeting the Editors: Sara Ishaq & Amir Hamdani cameramen and realizing the degree of risk they P L A Y S I N With: Saleem Al-Harazi, Nasr Al-Namer, took in order to document such violations of human Khaled Rajjeh, Abdulwahed Al-Muati rights was the biggest motivation for me to try my Oscar Shorts 1 (p 49) karamahasnowalls.com best to publicize their incredibly brave work. Selected Filmography: The Mulberry House
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PAGE 54 SHORT DOCUMENTARIES The Lion’s Mouth Opens 16 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition IFF13 Rogue Award honoree Lucy Walker tells the story of actress and filmmaker Marianna Palka, whose father died from Huntington’s ADisease, the debilitating illness that destroys both the mind and body. Palka bravely decides to be tested for the gene that causes Huntington’s, knowing there is no cure if she has it. The night before she gets her test results, she has an intimate and profound dinner party with her closest friends and family. Director’s Statement: Lucy Walker And the lion’s mouth opens and yer staring at his teeth TIMES Director: Lucy Walker And his jaws start closin’ with you underneath Producers: Lucy Walker, Marianna Palka Th 6:20pm Cinematographer: Nick Higgins The title of the film is taken from a poem that Bob Sa 3:20pm, Su 9:20pm Editor: Joe Peeler Dylan wrote about Woody Guthrie (when he died from Mo 6:20pm With: Marianna Palka, Bryce Dallas Huntington’s Disease) called “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie.” Marianna Howard, Jason Ritter, Seth Gabel can recite it in its entirety (it takes about 7 minutes). P L A Y S I N thelionsmouthopens.com Selected Filmography: Waste Land (AIFF11), The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom (AIFF12), The Short Docs (p 49) Crash Reel (AIFF13)
A Man’s Place 10 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition ilbert must come to terms with the resentment and anger he feels toward his emotionally distant father, with whom he’s worked side by Gside in the family barbershop for 12 years. Things are often so bad that he physically has to leave the shop, and considers quitting altogether. He sets out on a long and difficult journey of compassion and reconciliation, recog- nizing his father as a vulnerable person, and rising above old wounds to find forgiveness and love. Director’s Statement: Russ Spencer Director: Russ Spencer Barbershops are one of the few places left for men to TIMES Screenwriter: Russ Spencer gather. They can sit back and close their eyes and allow Fr 10am , Sa 6:30pm Music: Craig Dobbin themselves to be groomed, and they have the opportunity to share their stories with other men. Willie’s Barbershop Su 9:30pm , Mo 10am bisonfilms.com has a story all its own, a story that is both universal and P L A Y S W I T H specific which I found too compelling to pass up. Sometimes I Dream I’m Flying (p 45) Selected Filmography: Backstage at the Bowl, Dreamtending, Hana Buffalo Dreams (p 50) Surf Girls
Notes on Blindness 13 minutes | 2014 | USA, United Kingdom, Australia | In Competition n the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went completely blind. For the next three years, he Ikept an audio diary to record his experience of blindness. With exclusive access to these original recordings, the film encompasses dreams, memory, and Hull’s imaginative life, excavating the interior world of blindness. Directors’ Statement: Peter Middleton & James Spinney Upon their publication in 1990, the neurologist Oliver Sacks Directors: Peter Middleton, James Spinney TIMES Producers: Jo-Jo Ellison, Peter Middleton, described John Hull’s diaries as “the most extraordinary, Th 3:40pm Jen Kerrison precise, deep and beautiful account of blindness I have ever Fr 12:20pm, Sa 9:30pm Executive Producers: Mike Brett, Steve read. They are to my mind a masterpiece.” John’s original Jamison, Jason Spingarn-Koff audio recordings (heard in public here for the first time) form Su 9:50am Executive Producer: Matt Houghton Screenwriters: Peter Middleton, the narrative backbone of the film, alongside interviews with P L A Y S W I T H James Spinney his wife Marilyn from the same period. These documentary Kiss the Water Cinematographers: James Blann, Gerry Floyd sources are embedded within creative visualizations of John’s Editors: Peter Middleton, James Spinney journey into “a world beyond sight.” (p 35) Music: James Ewers, Michael Murray With: Rafe Beckley, Celia Henebury, Selected Filmography: Wavelengths, Rainfall Stanley Pemberton-Warbrick notesonblindness.co.uk
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Rougarouing 11 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n the middle of a muddy field, blanketed by fog, an annual Mardi Gras celebration in rural Louisiana takes place. “Rougarouing” is the Cajun term Ifor “dangerous carousing.” Striking black and white cinematography enhanced with bold splashes of color captures folks as they don strange masks and dress like medieval carnival jesters, readying themselves to partake in the music, madness, whiskey, whips, and gumbo. [mature] Director’s Statement: Michael Palmieri & Donal Mosher Last year, the filmmaker/photographer team of Patrick TIMES Directors: Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher Bresnan and Ivete Lucas invited us to rural Louisiana for Th 6:20pm Producers: Michael Palmieri, Donal a Mardi Gras celebration that was unlike anything we’d Sa 3:20pm, Su 9:20pm Mosher, Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas ever seen. All around us mud, masks, and music infused a Mo 6:20pm Executive Producer: Michael Palmieri mysterious history into a pulsing, chaotic present. We made Cinematographer: Michael Palmieri Rougarouing in hopes of documenting that experience and P L A Y S I N Editor: Michael Palmieri to pay homage to the films of John Cohen and Les Blank Short Docs (p 49) rougarouing.tumblr.com that continue to inspire us. We hope we have succeeded. Selected Filmography: October Country, Off Label
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PAGE 58 FEATURES The Animal Project FEATURES90 minutes | 2013 | Canada n unconventional acting teacher attempts to push a group of eager young performers out of their comfort zones, while struggling with his Aown ability to live an authentic and fulfilling life with his teenage son. One night, he watches an old film he made of his son as a child wearing a bunny suit, walking around Toronto offering free hugs to passersby. He challenges his troupe of actors to explore the same sensibility, and when they accept, life opens up for them all. An ensemble cast shows us there can be joy in facing our problems in unusual, even furry, ways. Director’s Statement: Ingrid Veninger The challenge I made for myself was to cast TIMES Director: Ingrid Veninger the actors first (before I had any concept Producers: Ingrid Veninger for a movie), and then write the script. I Thursday 6:10pm Executive Producers: Karen Walton, met with 100 professional actors; most Friday 6:10pm Kate Gammal, Renah Persofsky, of whom I did not know, and had never Julia Grant Saturday 3:10pm worked with before. The actors had to Associate Producer: John Gundy commit to a three month shoot (filming Sunday 9:10pm Screenwriter: Ingrid Veninger three days a week), without knowing anything about the roles they would play. Monday 6:10pm Cinematographer: Cabot McNenly I promised roles to a core group of 8 actors. Between January and early February Editor: Jonathan Eagan 2013, I wrote the screenplay (103 pages, 107 scenes). I am sure that casting 8 P L A Y S W I T H Music: Nick Storring different actors would have inspired a completely different story. On March 3, Principal Cast: Aaron Poole, Jacob 2013, we started principal photography. My crew was four people. We shot in The Otherworldly Switzer, Hannah Cheesman, Jessica 44 Toronto locations, including the actors’ homes and workplaces. We did not (page 77) Greco, Joey Klein rehearse. The actors met for the first time on the first day of shooting. theanimalproject.com Selected Filmography: i am a good person/i am a bad person, The End of Time
Before I Disappear 95 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition
ased on the Academy Award®–winning short Curfew (AIFF13). At the lowest point of his life, Richie (Shawn Christensen) gets a call from his Bestranged sister (Emmy Rossum) asking him to look after his 11-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours. Richie cancels his ominous plans, and picks Sophia up from school. He does his best to juggle her intense schedule with his equally intense (but much messier) commitments. It seems more like she’s the one looking after him than the other way around. As he tries hard to be the grownup, he realizes she just might be the spark he needs to bring him back from the edge. With Paul Wesley, Richard Schiff, and Ron Perlman. Director’s Statement: Shawn Christensen TIMES Director: Shawn Christensen Producers: Damon Russell, Terry It seemed logical to me, to expand Curfew into a Friday 12:40pm Leonard, Lucan Toh, Paul Wesley, feature film, because I could still maintain control over Saturday 9:40pm Shawn Christensen the process. Most of my other scripts are larger in scope, Executive Producers: Christopher and I would’ve had to give up some creative control if I Sunday 3:40pm Eoyang, Oliver Roskill, Nick Harbinson, tried to finance them. I wanted this feature still to take Monday 3:40pm Em Leo place over one night, but with more depth about Richie Associate Producer: Brenden Hubbard and about his sister and what she’s going through, and Screenwriter: Shawn Christensen more about Sophia and Richie’s arc. I liked the idea of Cinematographer: Daniel Katz exploring a young child full of life, and an adult who still has an inner child Editors: Andrew Napier, Damon Russell buried deep inside him. My main priority for the feature was to keep that Music: Darren Morze dynamic throughout. [mature] Principal Cast: Shawn Christensen, Selected Filmography: Brink, Curfew (AIFF13) Fatima Ptacek, Emmy Rossum, Paul Wesley, Ron Perlman facebook.com/BeforeIDisappear
PAGE 59 FEATURES Bluebird FEATURES91 minutes | 2013 | USA, Sweden | In Competition n the frozen woods of an isolated Maine logging town, Lesley (Amy Morton), the local school bus driver, becomes distracted during her end-of-day Iinspection, and fails to notice a sleeping boy in the back of the bus. What happens next shatters the balance of the community, resulting in profound and unexpected consequences for two fractured families. Stricken by an overwhelming sense of guilt, Lesley’s fragility is further tested by her husband (Emmy® Award nominee John Slattery) — a local logger preoccupied by the imminent closing of the town paper mill — and the boy’s mother Marla (Louisa Krause), a disaffected young woman looking to take advantage of a delicate situation. Capturing a lonely yet beautiful sense of place, the film explores the deeply personal yet transcendent effects of a tragedy TIMES Director: Lance Edmands on an isolated American town. Also starring Emmy® Award winner Margo Producers: Kyle Martin, Garrett Martindale, and Adam Driver. Fennely, Alexander Schepsman Thursday 9:20pm Director’s Statement: Lance Edmands Friday 3:20pm Executive Producers: Christine Vachon, Susan Shopmaker, Andrew Neel, Laura The film’s title was inspired by the Robert Frost poem, Saturday 6:20pm Heberton, Emily Weidemann, Michael “The Last Word of a Blue Bird.” This poem tells the story Sunday 12:20pm Sackler, Julia Godzinskaya of a little girl who finds a bluebird, which she befriends. Co-Producers: Brad Payne, Erika But when winter comes, the bird tells her that it must Wasserman, Lizzie Nastro fly south. There’s this idea of a migratory bird that could Screenwriter: Lance Edmands never exist in the middle of winter left behind in an Cinematographer: Jody Lee Lipes environment that’s not made for it. The poem is very sad Editor: Dino Jonsater and simple and they used to have kids memorize it in Music: Saunder Jurriaans, Danny Bensi school. Lesley first sees the bird while inspecting her bus Principal Cast: John Slattery, Amy at the end of a day’s run, momentarily distracting her. That bird hasn’t flown Morton, Louisa Krause, Emily Meade, south for winter, and it finds itself in this place that it’s not supposed to be. Margo Martindale, Adam Driver And that little mistake of nature has enormous consequences that reverberate through all of these different people’s lives. bluebird-movie.com Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
Copenhagen 98 minutes | 2014 | USA, Canada, Denmark | In Competition ill is smart, good-looking, and a lout. He finds himself at a crossroads in Copenhagen, where he has come to trace his Danish family roots. WHe has an old letter his father wrote his father after leaving Europe as a small child, and Will is determined to deliver it in person. He enlists Effy to help him. She is charming, adventurous, and his perfect foil. She’s also 14! Effy’s mix of youthful exuberance and mature-beyond-her-years wisdom challenges Will in a way no one else ever has. As he truly connects with some- one for the first time in his life, he must accept his dysfunctional past, and help Effy to be a kid again. When the girl of your dreams is half your age, it’s time to grow up. [mature] Director’s Statement: Mark Raso TIMES Director: Mark Raso It was in a screenwriting class during my first year at Producers: Mauro Mueller, Mette Columbia University when I first sat down to write Thursday 3:30p Thygesen Copenhagen. I had the idea ever since I’d lived in Friday 12:30pm Executive Producers: Burton Ritchie, Copenhagen in 2006 and my initial thought was to Joseph Raso, Daniel-Konrad Cooper tell a simple story of two characters that meet and Saturday 9:30pm Co-Producer: Mette Thygesen Sunday 3:30pm fall in love over a 24-hour period. In the three years Screenwriter: Mark Raso from the first draft to my graduation — a mere two Monday 6:30pm Cinematographer: Alan Poon months before principal photography began — the Editor: Mark Raso story had changed in so many ways, and became tremendously personal. Music: Agatha Kaspar At its heart Copenhagen is about the difficulty we all have in shedding the Principal Cast: Gethin Anthony, burden of our parents’ past. But it is also a story about growing up. And in Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Sebastian perfect symbiosis, the experience of filming it was also about growing up, yet Armesto, Baard Owe, Mille Dinesen the entire time, I felt imaginative, found joy in everything, and lived in the copenhagenthemovie.com now, just like a kid. Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial Debut. Under (student Academy Award® winner)
PAGE 60 FEATURESFEATURES Drunktown’s Finest FEATURES85 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition n a desolate yet beautiful Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people: a college-bound devout Christian, a rebellious and angry Ofather-to-be, and a gorgeous transsexual, who dreams of becoming a model, search for love and acceptance. As the three find their lives becoming more complicated and their troubles growing, their paths begin to intersect. With little in common other than a shared heritage, they soon learn that the key to overcoming their respective obstacles may come from the most unlikely of sources — each other. Inspired by a 20/20 story that called Gallup, New Mexico, “Drunktown, USA,” this is a moving and ultimately uplifting story about coming of age in the most challenging of circumstances while still finding hope, healing, and the chance for a better life. [mature] Director’s Statement: Sydney Freeland Director: Sydney Freeland TIMES Producers: Chad Burris, Mateo Frazier I am from the Navajo Indian reservation. On the reservation poverty is high, alcoholism is rampant, Thursday 6:40pm Executive Producers: Robert Redford, Dennis Mykytyn and the unemployment rate hovers at 60%. For a Saturday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Sydney Freeland lot of Native Americans, their only means of income Sunday 10:10am Cinematographer: Peter Holland is to create artwork to sell to tourists. This is the world Editor: Harry Yoon I come from. As a child, art was a part of everyday life, but not just for enjoyment and entertainment P L A Y S W I T H Music: Mark Orton Principal Cast: Jeremiah Bitsui, purposes. A song is a prayer. A painting is a prayer. A Dig Carmen Moore, Morning Star Wilson, story is a prayer. And prayer is how we communicate (page 71) Shauna Baker, Magdalena Begay with our Creator. I too want to communicate, but I want to do it through the medium I know best: film. Until now my artistic life and my indigenous life www.drunktownsfinest.com have been two worlds that I’ve kept separate. I see Drunktown’s Finest as a way to bring them together. Selected Filmography: Feature Directorial Debut
Ernest & Celestine Academy Award® Nominee | 80 minutes | 2012 | France, Belgium, Luxembourg ice and bears can never be friends” according to the rules of a community of mice who live beneath a village of bears in the charming “Mworld of Ernest & Celestine. An orphaned mouse, Celestine studies dentistry, as do most of her fellow mice, but dreams of being an artist. In her underground world she is taught to fear the bears, that friendship between them is possible only in fairy tales. One day while above ground, she meets the sensitive, talented, and musical bear Ernest, who instead of eating her, becomes her unlikely friend, which calls into question the entire worldview of mice and bears. A delightful, picture-book of watercolor paintings come to life. With the voices of Forest Whitaker, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, and William H. Macy. [in English] Directors: Benjamin Renner, TIMES Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier Director’s Statement: Benjamin Renner, Friday 6:40pm Producers: Didier Brunner, Philippe Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier Kauffmann, Vincent Tavier, Stephan Saturday 3:40pm The producer contacted my animation school Roelants, Henri Magalon looking for people to work on his film. Executive Producer: Ivan Rouveure Initially, he asked me to work on the graphic Screenwriters: Daniel Pennac development of the project. I accepted because Based on the books by: that was exactly what I wanted to do when I left school — to illustrate using Gabrielle Vincent very clean lines, minimalist yet accurate. I wanted to convey emotions and Editor: Fabienne Alvarez-Giro sentiments in just a few lines, and movement through subtle animation. Music: Vincent Courtois Later on, when I was asked to direct Ernest & Celestine, I was a little Animators: Patrick Imbert, Pascal concerned because I’d never imagined directing a feature film straight out of Gerard, Digital Graphics Studio school, without any cinematic experience beforehand. I was worried about With the voices of: Forest Whitaker, the responsibilities I was going to have to shoulder. I asked the producer to Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, bring on board some experienced co-directors whom I could learn from. William H. Macy He suggested Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier, and we worked really well ernestetcelestine-lefilm.com together, and were completely in agreement on the intentions and humor that we wanted to put in the film. Selected Filmography: Benjamin Renner – A Mouse’s Tale; Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier – A Town Called Panic
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PAGE 62 FEATURESFEATURES Forev 89 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition
ophie and Pete are neighbors — and kind of friends — who live in a generic apartment complex in Los Angeles. Sophie decides to take a road Strip with Pete to pick up his sister from college in Phoenix. A not-so-humorous encounter with some roadkill leads to a joke about marriage, and somehow they get engaged. On the way home, their car breaks down and they get stranded in a peculiar little desert town, where Pete’s sister goes missing with a guy she meets in a bar. Suddenly lost and dependent on each other, Sophie and Pete learn that falling in love after you get engaged can be a lot scarier than getting married. Starring Matt Mider and Noël Wells (Saturday Night Live). [mature] Directors’ Statement: TIMES Directors: Molly Green, James Leffler Producers: Stephanie Dziczek, Molly Green & James Leffler Thursday 3:10pm Meg Charlton Forev is a movie about marriage, made by Friday 9:10pm Executive Producers: people who know absolutely nothing about Kevin Charlton, Timothy Charlton Saturday 12:10pm marriage. And that’s exactly the idea. We Screenwriters: Molly Green, wanted to make something that felt true Sunday 12:10pm James Leffler to our reality and the reality of our friends: Monday 9:40am Cinematographer: murky relationships, difficulty being sincere, Robert M. Edgecomb confusion about how to behave romantically, and above all, total naivety. Editors: Molly Green, James Leffler And yet, there’s this constant social pressure that we should find love and Music: Mychal Cohen get married. With Forev, we tried to explore this anxiety from a different Principal Cast: Noël Wells, Matt Mid- angle, through two characters who decide it’s smarter to skip all the hassle of a er, Amanda Bauer, Timmy L’Heureux, normal relationship and just get engaged. Workshopped for a year with our Chuck McCarthy core group of actors and shot over seven sweltering weekends in the desert, forevmovie.com Forev is a collaboration among a close group of friends, and the first feature for basically everyone involved. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
Free Fall FEATURES100 minutes | 2013 | Germany arc has a promising career as a police officer in the riot control unit. He is expecting a child with his live-in girlfriend, and his parents have loaned Mhim money for a duplex right next door to them. It seems his life path is set. Then he meets a fellow policeman at the training academy. At first, they go jogging together and their friendship brings a breath of fresh air into his life. But there’s something stronger between them, and when they kiss, he begins to fall in love with a man for the first time. Pulled into an increasingly passionate and romantic affair, Marc loses control of what he thought was his perfect life. In this state of “free fall,” he cannot make anyone happy anymore, least of all, himself. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Stephan Lacant Director: Stephan Lacant In spite of publicity surrounding police reforms, TIMES Producer: Daniel Reich, it is still an institution that is bound by masculine- Thursday 12:20pm Christoph Holthof dominated, conservative structures. What I find Screenwriters: Stephan Lacant, particularly interesting about our approach to Friday 9:20pm Karsten Dahlem the material is that we gave our story an unex- Monday 9:50am Cinematographer: Sten Mende pected narrative focus. Instead of concentrating Editor: Monika Schindler on the love story between two men in an environ- Music: Joachim Durbeck, ment where homosexuality is taboo, our focal point was Marc’s inner conflict. Rene Dohmen He is torn between incompatible poles: the forceful pull of fatherhood and his Principal Cast: Hanno Koffler, newfound family bliss with Bettina on the one hand, and the intensity of his Max Riemelt, Katharina Schüttler growing love for Kay on other. Although homosexuality is an implicit theme throughout, my main interest was to explore the underlying, archetypal, and conflicting emotions of love, hate, denial, and self-discovery — to portray our characters with all their fears and hopes in an authentic light, enabling the audience to relate to them. Selected Filmography: Aquanauten, Fireflies
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FEATURES Hank and Asha FEATURES73 minutes | 2013 | USA, Czech Republic | In Competition n this charming, romantic comedy two strangers search for human connec- tion in a hyper-connected world. Asha, born and raised in India, is studying Iabroad in Prague for a year. She longs for deeper connections with people, at a time in her life when everything is about to change. Hank, a filmmaker and lonely new transplant to New York City, faces increasing pressure from his parents to return to North Carolina to rescue the failing family business. When Asha sees Hank’s documentary at a film festival, she feels inspired to send him a video message. Intrigued, Hank responds in kind. Their uncon- ventional correspondence blossoms as they share hopes and dreams, secrets and confidences entirely through video clips. They put their hearts on the line to each other, but will they take a chance on actually meeting? A love story for the Internet Age. Director: James E. Duff TIMES Producers: James E. Duff, Director’s Statement: James E. Duff Thursday 9:30pm Julia Morrison Executive Producers: With Hank and Asha, I wanted to tell a story about the Friday 3:30pm Kristie Lutz, Padmini Narumanchi, absolute thrill of making a deep connection with someone, Saturday 12:30pm Anne Svejgaard Lund and to explore the dynamics of a correspondence rich with Sunday 6:30pm Screenwriter: James E. Duff, expectation, excitement, and projection — a relationship that invites you to be the person you want to be. Monday 12:30pm Julia Morrison Cinematographer: Bianca Butti Hank and Asha’s messages to each other are intimate, unpolished, and real. It’s a projection of their fantasies. P L A Y S W I T H Editor: Julia Morrison Music: Lara Meyerratken It’s a virtual leap of faith. And in a borderless world sped Verbatim Principal Cast: Mahira Kakkar, up by technology and connectivity, it’s an opportunity to slow down and develop Andrew Pastides a meaningful connection, one video letter at a time. I hope audiences will feel (page 81) emboldened to take a risk and make that extra effort to make a meaningful hankandasha.com connection with someone. Hank and Asha celebrates the relationships that have a lasting impact on our lives, whether they last a moment or a lifetime. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
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PAGE 65 FEATURES Just a Sigh 104 minutes | 2013 | France lix (Emmanuelle Devos) is a beautiful stage actress starring in a play in the northern French town of Calais. Between performances, she makes a Aquick escape to Paris, meeting a mysterious British professor (Gabriel Byrne) on the train. A romantic encounter unfolds between them before she must decide whether to return to Calais — and a new life that could be awaiting her there. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Jérôme Bonnell The vague, unconscious seeds of this film were planted when I first saw François Truffaut’s The Soft Skin as a teenager. I was particularly impressed by the long night sequence in the provinces, during which a third wheel unknowingly prevents two lovers from being alone. I was struck by the harrowing suspense of the scene, built TIMES Director: Jérôme Bonnell Producer: Edouard Weil on practically nothing — a simple adulterous lie — and Thursday 6:00pm Executive Producer: especially to what extent Truffaut was able to transform the pure present-ness of the moment into cinema. The tension is dispropor- Saturday 12:00pm Rectangle Productions Screenwriter: Jérôme Bonnell tionally greater than the actual, banal situation. Sunday 9:00pm Cinematographer: Pascal Lagriffoul Hence my initial wish, to make a movie whose main subject is the Editor: Julie Dupré suspenseful blow-by-blow account of a love affair, treated in real time. Based Principal Cast: Gabriel Byrne, on that deep-seated but playful desire, the rest of the story and its timespan Emmanuelle Devos emerged gradually, almost of their own volition. When writing the first lines of the screenplay, my real subject caught up with me: the apparently fictional, e-pacte.com/international/ but actually very real, idea that even if a love story lasts only a few hours, it is new-films/single/just-a-sigh/ no less intense, and no less important in the context of an entire life.
Selected Filmography: The Queen of Clubs, Waiting For Someone
Obvious Child 83 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n honest and authentic comedy about what happens when twenty- something Brooklyn comedian Donna Stern (Jenny Slate) gets dumped, Aloses her job, and discovers she’s pregnant — just in time for Valentine’s Day! On stage, Donna has always been unapologetically herself, finding plenty of material in her everyday life. But now, as she grapples with an uncertain financial future, an unwanted pregnancy, and a surprising new suitor, she discovers that the most terrifying thing about adulthood isn’t facing it all on her own, it’s allowing herself to accept the support and love of others, and to be truly vulnerable. Never failing to find the comedy and humanity in each awkward situation she encounters, Donna finds out along the way what it means to be as brave in life as she is on stage. Also with David Cross, Jake Lacy, Gabby Hoffman, and Richard Kind. [mature]
TIMES Director: Gillian Robespierre Director’s Statement: Gillian Robespierre Producer: Elisabeth Holm Executive Producers: Donna, played by the very talented and hilarious Jenny Friday 6:00pm Slate, is a naturally funny, intelligent woman in her late Saturday 9:00pm Gillian Robespierre, David Kaplan, Julia Godzinskaya, Brent Stiefel, twenties who is slowly shedding the remaining traits of her Sunday 12:00pm Michael Sackler, Sophie Vickers, youth. I was frustrated by the limited representations of Stefan Nowicki, Jenny Slate young women’s experience with pregnancy, and was waiting Co-Producer: Joey Carey to see a more honest film, or at least a story that was closer to Screenwriter: Gillian Robespierre many of the stories I knew. Creating the voice of Donna was Cinematographer: Chris Teague a collaborative effort with several exceptionally funny and intelligent women I Editor: Casey Brooks know, including Jenny. We all have similar senses of humor, devour the same Music: Chris Bordeaux movies, and crave what all intelligent women crave: a romantic comedy that is Principal Cast: Jenny Slate, Actually Funny. At the same time, I know that this is a serious and emotional Jake Lacy, Gabby Hoffman, David issue. This is just one woman’s story, but it’s a story that we rarely see in main- Cross, Gabe Liedman, Richard Kind stream media or our culture more generally. Selected Filmography: Chunk, Obvious Child (short)
PAGE 66 FEATURES Ping Pong Summer 92 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition ummer, 1985. Rad Miracle (Marcello Conte) is a shy 13-year-old obsessed with two things: ping pong and hip hop. During his family’s Sannual summer vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad makes a new best friend, experiences his first real crush, and becomes the target of local bullies. He finds an unexpected mentor in his neighbor (Susan Sarandon) a fellow outcast, and discovers that even when you’re treated like an alien by everyone around you, deep down, you know you’re as funky fresh as it gets! With Amy Sedaris, Lea Thompson, and Judah Friedlander. Director’s Statement: Michael Tully With Ping Pong Summer, our intention wasn’t to make a “throwback” or “ode” to ’80s movies. It was to make an actual ’80s movie. I first conceived of Ping Pong Summer — the title, the characters, the scenario — in 1992, when I TIMES Director: Michael Tully Producers: Jeffrey Allard, Brooke was a high school senior. Back then, it was barely a period Friday 9:40pm Bernard, Michael Gottwald, Billy piece. Now, it’s definitely one! The plan was to see what would happen if I inserted my own personal upbringing Saturday 12:40pm Peterson, George Rush, Ryan Zacarias Executive Producers: Julie S. Fuller, into the template of those coming-of-age Hollywood comedies that I watched Marcus Dean Fuller, Walter S. Hall repeatedly on VHS as an adolescent in the mid-1980s. But even if you weren’t Screenwriter: Michael Tully obsessed with hip hop and ping pong and family vacations to Ocean City, Cinematographer: Wyatt Garfield Maryland, our hope is that the story’s universal themes and humor will Editor: Marc Vives nonetheless shine through. Music: Michael Montes Selected Filmography: Cocaine Angel, Silver Jew, Septien Principal Cast: Marcello Conte, Susan Sarandon, Amy Sedaris, Lea Thompson, John Hannah pingpongsummer.com
Too Close to the Raven 62 minutes | 2014 | USA Western Neo-Noir tale of the timeless conflict between a charismatic crime boss, an idealistic young gun, and a damsel in distress. A This tylish,s taut psychological thriller brings young wannabe outlaw Luc Kennedy, who idealizes 1950’s Western pop culture, into the circle of Cash, the eloquent embodiment of the archetypal gun-slinging outlaw he’s long idolized. To prove himself, Luc is tasked with the removal of Cash’s jaded mistress — the damsel Lila — and his romantic ideals face harsh realities as he’s forced to choose sides between the angels and the bad guys. A character-driven drama by Ashland’s own Malcolm King-Fontana, self-taught teen filmmaker whose singular voice crafts a world of its own. Featuring an original score by Mark Fontana. [mature] Director’s Statement: Malcolm King-Fontana TIMES Director: Malcolm King-Fontana Too Close to the Raven represents not only a story that I Producer: Kari King poured an unmentionable amount of my essence and love Friday 12:10pm Executive Producer: and soul into, but also a beginning. The first installment Saturday 6:10pm Hudson Wallbank in an anthology of Montana-inspired Western Neo-Noir, it Screenwriter: Malcolm King-Fontana Sunday 9:40am endeavors to exist within a world that I have been crafting Cinematographer: Ben Sager in the depths of my imagination since first being exposed Monday 3:10pm Editor: Malcolm King-Fontana to The Lone Ranger, Hopalong Cassidy, and The Magnificent Music: Mark Fontana Seven. I began writing the film during October of last year and cast it by mid- P L A Y S W I T H Principal Cast: Kiah Toth, Jeffery November. One month later, we began shooting. Six days after that, it was a wrap. Solomon, Sam Rohloff, Keary Keefer, Shooting from seven in the morning until eight or nine the following morning YOUNG AMERICANS Ross Massbuam became commonplace. The cocktail of sleepless delirium and this-is-really- (page 83) happening euphoria left me in a state of simultaneous despair and excitement. “I love this so much and it will most literally be the death of me” became a repeated phrase. I dedicate this film to those who gave themselves unconditionally. As well as to black coffee and Nat Sherman cigarettes. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
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PAGE 69 SHORTS Alligator Stroll 7 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition andra Boynton’s latest musical delight stars country music singer and guitar player Josh Turner. On a gorgeous summer day in rural Tennessee, kids Smake their way to Josh’s farm where he leads them all in the Alligator Stroll. Featuring Boynton’s long-time collaborator Michael Ford on upright piano. Director’s Statement: Sandra Boynton “Alligator Stroll” started out as a track on Frog Trouble, a country music album I wrote and produced (target Director: Sandra Boynton audience: “Ages 1 to Older Than Dirt.”) Josh Turner is a TIMES Producer: Sandra Boynton highly charismatic singer, and it occurred to me it would Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Sandra Boynton make a cool music video to have images of him performing, Sa 12:40pm Co-Producers: Russ Kendall, Micah Merrill intercut with footage of young children learning the Su 12:40pm Screenwriter: Sandra Boynton Alligator Stroll dance. That’s pretty much not at all what Cinematographer: Munn Powell this turned into. No one can learn anything in the 100 P L A Y S I N Editors: Sandra Boynton, Michael Ford Music: Sandra Boynton degree Tennessee June heat. Which made for a much more interesting small Family Shorts (p 25) Principal Cast: Josh Turner, Caitlin film, I think. McEwan, Darcy Boynton, Nick Brentley Selected Filmography: One Shoe Blues (AIFF10), Philadelphia Chickens (AIFF11)
Animal Cookies 2 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n this charming, stop-motion animated short, Molly has proudly baked herself a batch of animal cookies for dessert. But when her mother calls her Iaway, the animal cookies come to life and go on an adventure. When Molly discovers they’re missing, they’re faced with a moral dilemma only a cookie could understand. Director’s Statement: Matthew Temple Working many hours as a director, writer and producer in Director: Matthew Temple TV commercials, music videos, and feature films, I TIMES Producer: Matthew Temple realized that I was not sharing in the work I love with the Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Matthew Temple people I love the most: my family. So armed with three of Sa 12:40pm Screenwriter: Matthew Temple the best artists I know (my three daughters), we set out to Su 12:40pm Cinematographer: Matthew Temple Editor: John Manko make a family movie in all senses of the phrase — by my family, for all families. P L A Y S I N Music: David E.K. Abramson Animators: Iona Cortez Temple, Mer Selected Filmography: The Luckiest Man Alive, DWAI: Don’t Worry About It Family Shorts (p 25) Cortez Temple, Jade Cortez Temple Principal Cast: Jade Mona, Audrey Cortez matthewctemple.com/producing/shorts/ animal-cookies Best 3 minutes | 2012 | United Kingdom bridegroom is moments away from getting married, but outside the church, he must confront his best friend about their future. The story, Asuccinctly rendered with raw and heartbreaking tenderness, conveys volumes about love and intentions. [mature] Director’s Statement: William Oldroyd Adam Brace wrote the script for a competition at the Royal Court Theatre. The aim was to tell a story in only 100 words. I read the script and knew immediately that it would make a great short film. We were quite pushed for time, and we TIMES Director: William Oldroyd had to try and keep the intimate moments as private as Producer: William Oldroyd possible. Thursday 9:40pm Executive Producer: Ben Woodsmith Friday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Adam Brace Selected Filmography: In Mid Wickedness, Christ’s Dog Cinematographer: William Oldroyd Sunday 6:40pm Editor: Louis Price Principal Cast: Jotham Annan, P L A Y S I N Terry Doe Short Stories (p 69) williamoldroyd.com
PAGE 70 SHORTS Butter Lamp 15 minutes | 2013 | France, Tibet roups of nomadic Tibetan families pose for an itinerant photographer and his assistant in front of absurd and symbolic backdrops. This effort Gcreates a colorful, amusing, and slightly unsettling kaleidoscope with a subtle but significant sociopolitical commentary. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Hu Wei The idea of the movie was born when I accidentally stumbled upon Michael Bash’s photo “Warsaw 1046.” I wanted to reproduce the device to take a picture of different characters against various backgrounds. It is TIMES Director: Hu Wei a practice still very popular in China. I wanted an Producer: Julien Feret uncluttered movie, between fiction and documentary, Thursday 9:40pm Executive Producer: Yangxu Zhou Screenwriter: Hu Wei reality and dream, modern civilization and traditional Friday 6:40pm habits, Chinese ideology and Tibetans beliefs. Today’s Sunday 6:40pm Cinematographers: Jean Legrand, Stephane Degnieau world is complex, conflicts are everywhere, including P L A Y S I N Editor: Hu Wei Tibet, but I did not want to offer a positive or negative judgment, I just wanted Animator: Etienne Salançon to show today’s changes and the sometimes overlooked reality. Short Stories (p 69) Principal Cast: Genden Punstok Selected Filmography: Sans Toi, Le Proprietaire
CowBurd 3 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition IFF Alum Patrick Neary’s latest animation uses hand-drawn characters Aand miniature sets to answer the age-old question: what if cows could fly? Director’s Statement: Patrick Neary CowBurd is a hand-drawn cartoon that follows a hapless dairy cow, inspired by a little bird, as she takes to the skies. This cartoon started life as a string of doodles in a sketchbook, then grew into an experiment to place 2-D hand-drawn characters into miniature sets built from TIMES Director: Patrick Neary Producer: Michele Neary cardboard, clay and other elements. The sets were small, Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Patrick Neary averaging only 12 inches or so across, and the animated Sa 12:40pm Screenwriter: Patrick Neary characters were composited into still photos of the sets. Su 12:40pm Cinematographer: Patrick Neary The animation took place over the course of several Editor: Patrick Neary months, with compositing and post-production taking another several weeks Music: Jorn Lavoll, John Askew to complete the film. P L A Y S I N Animator: Patrick Neary Selected Filmography: Otis v Monster (AIFF10), Landscape with Duck (AIFF11), A Martian Picnic Family Shorts (p 25) kinografx.com (AIFF12)
Dig 10 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition curious young girl is mystified when she notices her father digging a hole in the backyard. Neighbors gather to watch as the hole gets bigger and Abigger, and everyone wonders why. Director’s Statement: Toby Halbrooks I wanted to capture that special moment in childhood when the curiosity about the adult world peaks. Even if it’s something as mundane as digging a hole. The story is slightly, if not entirely, absurd. It was important to give the Director: Toby Halbrooks TIMES Producers: Shaun Gish, sense of a fairytale, albeit a very modern one. The music Thursday 6:40pm James Johnston, David Lowery has a slow, slightly melancholic feel, that doesn’t really hit Executive Producer: Richard Krause home till the end. We shot over 3 days in my own backyard Saturday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Toby Halbrooks Sunday 10:10am in Dallas, Texas. All interiors were also in my house. We Cinematographer: Joe Anderson wrecked my house, it will never be the same. The hole is mostly filled. Editor: Rob Wilson P L A Y S W I T H Music: Daniel Hart Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Principal Cast: Mallory Mahoney, Drunktown’s Finest Jonny Mars, Myles Brooks, Augustine (p 61) Frizzell, Kaitlyn Neill digtheshort.com
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PAGE 72 SHORTS Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? Academy Award® Nominee | 7 minutes | 2011 | Finland rying to get to a wedding on time, Sini is met with one frenzied obstacle after another, as she tries to organize her husband and two young daughters. TFinally, they arrive at the church…and suddenly Sini and her family must make the best of a chaotic situation. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Selma Vilhunen As an entrepreneur and film director-screenwriter, and mother of a four-year-old, I have experienced what it feels like when “I have to do everything around here myself.” Kirsikka Saari’s screenplay immediately felt TIMES Director: Selma Vilhunen Producer: Elli Toivoniemi familiar and important. It soon became evident that Thursday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Kirsikka Saari the warmth and love between the characters is the Friday 6:40pm Cinematographer: Peter Flinckenberg most important element in a comedy of this length Sunday 6:40pm Editor: Selma Vilhunen and style. With my charming and gifted actors I felt secure from the first Music: Tuomas Skopa reading. I found it interesting to study the balance between the comical P L A Y S I N Principal Cast: Joanna Haartti, and the tragic. It seems to me that they are always intertwined. Santtu Karvonen, Ranja Omaheimo, Short Stories (p 69) Ella Toivoniemi Selected Filmography: Pony Girls, Homesick, My Little Elephants
Feral Academy Award® Nominee | 13 minutes | 2012 | USA wild boy who has grown up in the woods is found by a hunter and returned to civilization. Evocative brush and ink monochrome animation Ahauntingly portrays how alienated the boy is by his strange new environment. He tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest. Director’s Statement: Daniel Sousa In Feral, I use animation and themes commonly found in mythology and fairy tales to examine archetypes of human nature, and the inner struggles between our intellects and Director: Daniel Sousa our unconscious drives. Rather than following conventional TIMES Producer: Daniel Sousa narratives, I approach filmmaking from a painter’s perspective. Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producer: Daniel Sousa I focus on states of mind, evoking the fragility of fleeting Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Daniel Sousa moments, memories and perceptions. Cinematographer: Daniel Sousa Monday 12:40pm Editor: Daniel Sousa Selected Filmography: Fable, The Windmill, Drift Music: Dan Golden P L A Y S I N Animators: Daniel Sousa Animation Shorts danielsousa.com (p 69)
The Fox and the Chickadee 8 minutes | 2012 | Canada his charming stop-motion animated fable, featuring a mix of classic puppet animation and layered paper cut-outs, tells the story of a hungry Tfox and a cunning chickadee who find themselves in a standoff. The little bird bargains for his life with a plan to please the fox and teaches us a valuable lesson about nature and trust. Director’s Statement: Evan DeRushie For my first film as a director, I turned to some of the oldest stories for inspiration: Aesop’s Fables. My story TIMES Director: Evan DeRushie borrows some common elements from the fables (the sly Producer: Evan DeRushie fox, a moral debate, etc.) but with a personal touch of my Fri 10:10a & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Evan DeRushie own — the chickadee. Not only a common sight to me Sa 12:40pm Screenwriters: Daniel Warth, Evan DeRushie growing up in southern Ontario, Canada, the chickadee Sunday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Evan DeRushie Music: Evan DeRushie is also greatly underappreciated for its intelligence. A worthy match for the fox, in my opinion. P L A Y S I N Animators: Evan DeRushie, Mike DeCroock, Philip Eddolls Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Family Shorts (p 24) Principal Cast: Kathy Philson, Paul Aspland evanderushie.com/thefoxandthechickadee
PAGE 73 PAGE 74 SHORTS God’s Got His Head in the Clouds 14 minutes | 2012 | Italy, Lithuania n a small country chapel, an elderly local priest is kneeling alone in prayer. He turns around to find 11-year-old Angelina standing behind him. Who Iis this little girl and why is she there? She has an inquisitive look in her eyes. A duel of sorts commences between the priest and the girl, as she brings a grievance before him. Their exchange is wonderfully thought-provoking, comical, and slightly absurd. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Gianluca Sodaro When I was five, one day I asked my father how many TIMES Director: Gianluca Sodaro Producers: Gianluca and Salvatore Sodaro inhabitants there were on the Earth. He answered: Thursday 9:40pm Executive Producer: Kestutis Drazdauskas “Billions!” And then I, surprised, asked him “Billions?!? Friday 6:40pm Co-Producers: Giovanni Bedeschi, And how can God take care of each of one of us then?” Sunday 6:40pm Kestutis Drazdauska My father didn’t know what to answer. Then I ended this Screenwriter: Gianluca Sodaro short conversation: “Poor God... I wouldn’t like to be in his Cinematographer: Ramunas Greicius P L A Y S I N shoes.” Since then, certain questions have never stopped to Editor: Francesca Catalisano swirl around my head, and sometimes they turn into stories. Short Stories (p 69) Music: Angelo Badalamenti Principal Cast: Franco Pistoni, Silvia Sodaro Selected Filmography: The Voice of My Beloved, The Paladins of the Holy Providence, Don Mariano mizzicaboys.com/god Has Fallen From the Sky
Hannah and the Moon 6 minutes | 2012 | Scotland lonely little girl who yearns for someone to talk to confides in the moon each night from her bedroom window. However, one night when clouds Aobscure her view, she ventures into the garden outside to try and find her friend. Traditional hand-drawn animation and digital compositing combine with a lovely backdrop of printed words to create this picture book come to life. Director’s Statement: Kate Charter I have always been interested in storytelling and have recently been exploring the ways in which we Director: Kate Charter use story to learn and to bond with others: whether TIMES Producers: Kate Charter, Joseph Atkinson Executive Producer: Edinburgh it be picture books shared between a parent and Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm child, or a cartoon caught on a Saturday morning. Sa 12:40pm College of Art Screenwriter: Kate Charter I have produced a picture book version of this story. Side by side, the two Su 12:40pm Cinematographer: Kate Charter highlight the strengths of each medium. Editor: Kate Charter P L A Y S I N Music: Victoria Atkinson, Joseph Atkinson Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Family Shorts Animator: Kate Charter (p 25) Principal Cast: Katy Bartholomew katecharter.com Just Before Losing Everything Academy Award® Nominee | 31 minutes | 2012 | France iriam has left her abusive husband and taken refuge with her children in the local supermarket where she works. The urgency of her situation Mintensifies as she’s forced to make one life-altering decision after another with only moments to spare. [mature, subtitles] Director’s Statement: Xavier Legrand The film puts into perspective the difficulties that face a woman who finally decides to flee violence. That is to say, the different financial, legal, geographical, social issues she must confront. Indeed, today, a woman who TIMES Director: Xavier Legrand is the victim of domestic violence has no alternative Producer: Alexandre Gavras but to abandon her life, leave her home. Being forced Sunday 9:30am Executive Producer: Alexandre Gavras to flee is an additional violence against her that adds to her suffering. Screenwriter: Xavier Legrand P L A Y S I N Cinematographer: Nathalie Durand Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Editor: Yorgos Lamprinos Oscar Shorts 2 (p 69) Principal Cast: Lea Drucker, Miljan Chatelain, Anne Benoit, Mathilde Auneveux
PAGE 75 SHORTS Lomax 12 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n 1941, the legendary Alan Lomax was sent by the Library of Congress to the Mississippi Delta to record an oral history of the blues. Hauling 500 Ipounds of equipment powered only by his car battery, Lomax set out across nameless dirt roads to discover the most beautiful and harrowing songs ever sung. This is a spirited recreation of Lomax’s seminal meeting with Bill Henley, a 73-year-old recluse living in the backwoods of Lula, Mississippi. Director’s Statement: Jesse Kreitzer Just as the blues lineage is cloaked in myth, Alan Director: Jesse Kreitzer Lomax’s place in its history is no exception. He TIMES Producer: Jesse Kreitzer was a larger-than-life Robin Hood figure, and tales Thursday 9:40pm Executive Producer: Jesse Kreitzer of his defiant crusades through lawless lands are the Friday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Jesse Kreitzer stuff of legends. But despite romanticized portrayals, Sunday 6:40pm Cinematographer: Jesse Kreitzer Lomax was a mortal being, complex and flawed. Editor: Jesse Kreitzer He was a giver and a taker, a listener and a messenger, who plunged straight Music: Clancy Clark P L A Y S I N Principal Cast: Georg Koszulinski, for the bottom where the songs live. Short Stories (p 69) James ‘Tail Dragger’ Jones Selected Filmography: The Folklorist, Nera Laiko (No Time), The Murder Ballad of James Jones
Looms 15 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition haunting and heartbreaking depiction of the lonely and desolate existence of an aging farmer who, though determined to carry on with his harsh Aand solitary life, wonders for how much longer. With no one to continue his legacy, he steadfastly dedicates himself to the land that has given him the only life he’s ever known. [mature] Directors’ Statement: The Funk Brothers Looms was captured during a subzero Director: The Funk Brothers winter on our family’s century-old TIMES Producers: Logan Adermatt & farmstead in Osage, Iowa. The farm Thursday 9:40pm The Funk Brothers is a dynasty unto itself, passed down Executive Producer: Elizabeth Lodge Friday 6:40pm through four generations of our family’s stewardship. Like so many farmers Screenwriters: Burke Scurfield & today, our esteemed uncle has become “last in line,” having no other family Sunday 6:40pm The Funk Brothers member ready to assume the responsibilities of the farm. Cinematographer: Chayse Irvin P L A Y S I N Editor: Luke Lynch Seeing our own family’s legacy on the verge of extinction may have Music: Adam Taylor inspired us, but becoming conscious of the issue on a national scale is what Short Stories (p 69) Principal Cast: Timothy Murphy ultimately compelled us to make the film. The process gave us perspective that looms2014.com allowed us to be more truthful in our depiction of farm life and its rhythms. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut
MACROPOLIS 8 minutes | 2012 | Ireland wo unlikely characters — toy factory rejects — find themselves left to their own devices on the busy and dizzying streets of Belfast, Ireland. It’s new, Tstrange, and a little daunting. As a world of oversized humans move speedily around them, they cleverly find a way to fit in. A unique mix of stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography, this film is a sweet and amusing modern-day fable. Director’s Statement: Joel Simon TIMES Director: Joel Simon The whole adventure of MACROPOLIS started when my Producer: Vicky Bevis animation company pitched for a commercial, whereby we Executive Producer: David Cummins Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm would shoot outdoors and make it look as if murals were Sa 12:40pm Screenwriters: Joel Simon, Mick O’Hara, Ciaran Morrisson being animated on the walls of Belfast. We also shot a lot of Su 12:40pm Cinematographer: Joel Simon time-lapse photography in the streets. Later for a photogra- Editor: Nathan Mateer phy exhibition, I designed characters made from resin and P L A Y S I N Music: Simon McAllister clay and shot them outdoors. The next logical step was to Family Shorts (p 25) Animator: Johnny Schumann animate them. macropolis.tv Selected Filmography: Horn, OK Please
PAGE 76 SHORTS The Morning of Everything 13 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition he Morning of Everything is a fever dream in which a father envisions the world through the eyes of his three-year-old son who traverses dangerous Tlandscapes in search of his lost owl. A story about fatherhood and a father’s concerns over when to hold on and when to let go. Director’s Statement: Jeff Stern For the past four years, I have been fascinated, delighted and terrified by the notion of losing myself TIMES Director: Jeff Stern in my children. This film is an attempt to explore that Producers: Jeff Stern, Phil Healy, idea. I wanted to explore the wonderful richness that Thursday 9:40pm Mary Ann Guillette children bring to our lives, but also the darker thoughts Friday 6:40pm Executive Producer: Jeff Stern Co-Producers: Phil Healy, Mary Ann Guillette about loss of freedom and identity that many new Sunday 6:40pm Screenwriter: Jeff Stern parents experience. Cinematographer: Adam Van Voorhis Selected Filmography: The Thrilla in Wasilla, Big Movie Trailer, My Heart P L A Y S I N Editor: Jeff Stern Music: Alison Plante Short Stories (p 69) Principal Cast: Leo Stern, Jeff Stern, Mike Shine themorningofeverything.com Mr Hublot Academy Award® Nominee | 12 minutes | 2013 | France, Luxemburg fascinating and humorous depiction of the mechanically dominated world of Mr Hublot, an obsessive-compulsive recluse who is scared of Achange and the outside world. With characters and objects fashioned from intricately detailed, salvaged materials, Mr Hublot’s meticulously maintained world is turned upside down with the arrival of Robot Pet, a very invasive companion. Directors’ Statement: Laurent Witz & Alexandre Espigares Directors: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares TIMES Producer: Laurent Witz Mr Hublot is a short animated movie that has required more Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producer: Stephane Halleux than 3 years of intense work from its inception (in one of Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Laurent Witz those cafes in my neighborhood) to its completion, and for Cinematographer: Laurent Witz a very small budget. But more important, Mr Hublot is an Monday 12:40pm Music: Francois Rousselot extraordinary adventure led by a team of artists full of passion Animators: David Carriere, Mickael who were seeking to bring a unique universe and story to life. P L A Y S I N Coedel, Jamaal Bradley, Jean-Christophe Craps, Thierry Dezarmenien, Adrien Selected Filmography: Directorial Debuts Animation Shorts Xhibitte, Jacopo Armani (p 69) mrhublot.zeilt.com
The Otherworldly World Premiere | 8 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition visual and aural journey through a phenomenal world of stop-motion animation and time-lapse photography, with animated creatures and Aghostly effects, touching on notions of time and space, life and death, genesis and the supernatural. Director’s Statement: Evan Mann For me, the film has become about the beauty and struggle experienced between birth and death. My wife, Deborah, is pregnant with our first child, and what an TIMES Director: Evan Mann incredible process! As her belly grows each day, within Producer: Evan Mann me also grows a joyous anticipation for this new life and Th 6:10pm, Fr 6:10pm Executive Producer: Kickstarter Backers Screenwriter: Evan Mann the incredible adventure he or she will experience. Yet, Sa 3:10pm, Su 9:10pm Cinematographer: Evan Mann I am also aware that this child will struggle and wrestle Mo 6:10pm Editor: Evan Mann with the woes of this world, perhaps encountering terrors beyond my desire Music: Dave Wilton to imagine. I know that my child will die the inevitable death of humanity, thus P L A Y S W I T H Animator: Evan Mann Principal Cast: Taylor Nixon, Barbara completing the cycle of our existence. The Animal Project Adams, Evan Mann Selected Filmography: Real Ethereal (p 59) evanmann.com
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PAGE 78 SHORTS Requiem for Romance 8 minutes | 2012 | Canada modern-day couple’s secret love affair comes to a bittersweet end during an evening phone call. Cell phone static creates distance between them as Athey anguish over the details of their relationship. But the visuals of the film reveal something entirely different: the animated reimagining of themselves as martial arts warriors in feudal China, where family influence, cultural pres- sures, and their desire for adventure make a different kind of sense. In this dream-like short film, love goes to war over art. Director’s Statement: Jonathan Ng TIMES Director: Jonathan Ng Producer: Jonathan Ng My goal was to tell a personal story describing the emotion Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producer: Jonathan Ng of love at its lingering end, while combining aesthetic Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Jonathan Ng aspects of three signature genres of Chinese cinema, water Monday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Jonathan Ng ink animations, martial arts films, and melancholic love Editor: Jonathan Ng stories. The film takes advantage of the intimate yet distant nature of a phone Music: Vid Cousins & DJ Kid Koala P L A Y S I N Animator: Jonathan Ng conversation and explores the themes of distance within the cinematic form. I Animation Shorts Principal Cast: Shannon Kook-Chun, Meilie Ng set out to blend all of these in an artful, entertaining, and relatable way to express (p 69) facebook.com/RequiemForRomance a powerful emotion that I have personally experienced. Selected Filmography: Asthma Tech, Floor Kids, Alpha Beta Complex Spacebound 3 minutes | 2014 | USA | In Competition young astronaut is stranded in space and running out of oxygen. His only companion is his best friend, an excited dog who’s ready to play. The Aboy feels depressed as he waits for the inevitable, but his enthusiastic canine friend is unaware of their fate. When he takes off on a trail of space rocks, the boy hesitantly follows. Dog and boy embark on one last amazing adventure through the beauty and wonder of space. Directors’ Statement: Ellen Su & Kyle Moy TIMES Directors: Ellen Su & Kyle Moy Spacebound was created as a homage to the Producer: Ellen Su important people in our lives that have left Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Ellen Su a lasting impression on us. It is a film that Sa 12:40pm Screenwriters: Ellen Su & Kyle Moy celebrates all the happy memories we’ll Su 12:40pm Cinematographer: Ellen Su Editor: Kyle Moy make in our lives. Everything has an end, but that should not stop us from enjoying the present and the time we have P L A Y S I N Music: Johan Ericsson Degerlund Animator: Kyle Moy with the people we love. Family Shorts (p 25) spaceboundthemovie.tumblr.com, Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut ellensu.tv, kylemoy.tv
Subconscious Password 11 minutes | 2013 | Canada cademy Award®–winning director/animator Chris Landreth (Ryan, AIFF06) plays Charles, a man paralyzed by his inability to remember Aa friend’s name. From the moment he’s greeted by…what’s his name…in a crowded bar, we are transported into his subconscious, for a mind-bending animated romp. Borrowing from the classic TV game show Password, the film features a wealth of celebrity guests offering ridiculous clues, only adding to his ever increasing panic. Director’s Statement: Chris Landreth TIMES Director: Chris Landreth Subconscious Password is a playful and irreverent take Producers: Marcy Page, Mark Smith on a familiar experience. It may not help you jog your Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producers: Steven Hoban, Mark Jones, Roddy McManus own memory, but it’ll make you more inclined to forgive Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Chris Landreth yourself for struggling with the dreaded question: Monday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Tim Dashwood “What’s his name? What’s his name?” Music: Daniel Janke P L A Y S I N Animator: Sean Craig Selected Filmography: Ryan (AIFF06) Principal Cast: Don McKellar, Ron Animation Shorts Pardo, Patrice Goodman, Ray Landry (p 69) www.facebook.com/subconscious.com
PAGE 79 SHORTS Symphony no. 42 10 minutes | 2014 | Hungary his animated film presents a subjective and surreal view of the world as we observe interactions between animals, humans, and nature, as well as Tanthropomorphized beasts — a fox explores particle theory and polar bears relax in deck chairs. Follow the complicated thematic thread of this fascinat- ing visual puzzle through its unconventional narrative, with a brilliant and rousing Mozart soundtrack. Director’s Statement: Réka Bucsi As a kid I watched a zillion animated shorts and never stopped drawing. I also made graphic novels. Towards the TIMES Director: Réka Bucsi Producer: Jozsef Fulop end of high school, I checked the curricula of art schools Thursday 12:40pm Screenwriter: Réka Bucsi and stumbled into a program for animation practitioners Sunday 9:40pm Animator: Réka Bucsi at MoME University of Art and Design in Budapest. I was Monday 12:40pm captivated. The success of Symphony no. 42 has come as a total surprise. You can never predict how your work is received, especially P L A Y S I N because of this film’s experimental style. I gave it a 50% chance of success. For me experimentation matters more than the conventional, character- Animation Shorts (p 69) oriented approach. Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut That Wasn’t Me Academy Award® Nominee | 20 minutes | 2012 | Spain uropean doctors find themselves at the mercy of rebels in an undisclosed African country where young boys are turned into soldiers and forced Eto commit atrocities. The boys must either adapt or be killed, but later must learn to live with the memories of what they have done. A bittersweet tale of redemption in the face of blind rage and fear that reminds us of how the boundaries of humanity can be strained and irreparably broken. Director’s Statement: Esteban Crespo Director: Esteban Crespo Being a soldier is not difficult: either you get used to TIMES Producer: José Luís Matas-Negrete it or they kill you. The hardest thing is getting used Friday 9:30am Executive Producer: José Luís Matas-Negrete to living with your memories and being yourself Screenwriter: Esteban Crespo again after doing what you have done. Cinematographer: Angel Amorós P L A Y S I N Editor: Vanessa Marimbert Selected Filmography: Nadie tiene la culpa, Lala, Fin, Amar Oscar Shorts 1 Music: Juan de Dios Marfil (p 69) Principal Cast: Alejandra Lorente, Gustavo Salmerón, Babou Cham, Mariano Nguema, Alito Rodgers madridencorto.es/2012/aquel-no-era-yo
Tiger Boy 20 minutes | 2012 | Italy atteo is a nine-year-old boy obsessed with Il Tigre, a local wrestler from his suburb of Rome. He fashions a mask just like his hero’s and refuses Mto take it off. He wears it to sleep, when he bathes, and even at school. What seems like a childish tantrum is really a cry for help that the adults in his life don’t seem to hear. Watching his champion in action inspires him to take action on his own. Selected Filmography: Ultima Spiaggia, Basette, Love in Central Park
Director: Gabriele Mainetti TIMES Producer: Gabriele Mainetti Th 12:10pm, Fr 9:40am Executive Producer: Gabriele Mainetti Sa 9:10pm, Su 6:10pm Screenwriter: Nicola Guaglianone Cinematographer: Michele D’Attanasio Mo 9:10pm Editor: Simone Manetti Music: Gabriele Mainetti P L A Y S W I T H Principal Cast: Simone Santini, Of Kites and Borders Lidia Vitale, Francesco Foti (p 39) tigerboymovie.com/en
PAGE 80 SHORTS Tram 7 minutes | 2012 | France e ready to blush, and smile, as this suggestive animated short takes us on an amazing ride with a tram conductress whose humdrum day transporting Bherds of disinterested male commuters begins like any other. Then, thanks to the rhythm and vibrations of the road, she embarks on a comic, surrealistic journey through her fantasies. [mature] Director’s Statement: Michaela Pavlátová Tram is a part of a project Sexperiencies about womens’ sexual fantasies. It was not easy to come up with a TIMES Director: Michaela Pavlátová story. I realized that for me the only way to deal with Producers: Ron Dyens, Sacrebleu production such a delicate topic is to make the film funny, ironical, Thursday 12:40pm Executive Producer: Sacrebleu production cynical. To keep it simple, to provoke a little bit. The Sunday 9:40pm key attribute of the film is the rhythm — it was the Monday 12:40pm Screenwriter: Michaela Pavlátová Cinematographer: Michaela Pavlátová inspiration and it drives the film. The tram driver is the opposite of what is P L A Y S I N Editors: Michaela Pavlátová, Milos Krejcar considered “beautiful,” yet she can dream. And she does! Music: Petr Marek (MIDI LIBI) Selected Filmography: Laila, Le Carnaval des Animaux, Children of Night Animation Shorts Animator: Michaela Pavlátová (p 69)
Verbatim 7 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dimwitted government employee has ever used a photocopier. 100% of the dialogue Ain this short film comes from an actual deposition filed with the Supreme Court of Ohio. Director’s Statement: Brett Weiner Sometimes reality provides you with the best comic material. Verbatim is a word-for-word, uninterrupted court document, and it was important to me to preserve Director: Brett Weiner the honesty of the piece by making Verbatim literally TIMES Producer: Dana Wickens verbatim. This led to some very nitpicky takes (“You Th 9:30pm, Fr 3:30pm Executive Producers: Jerold Weiner, said ‘within’ instead of ‘in.’ Do it again.”), but hopefully Sa 12:30pm, Su 6:30pm Estelle Weiner the result shines a little bit of light into the absurd corners of our legal system. Screenwriter: Court Document Mo 12:30pm Cinematographer: Bérénice Eveno Selected Filmography: Awesomeness TV, Oishi High School Battle, The Parent Project P L A Y S W I T H Editor: Brett Weiner Music: Jordan Kolasinski Hank and Asha Principal Cast: John Ennis, Mike McCafferty, (p 65) Nathan Graham Smith, Emily Maya Mills
The Voorman Problem Academy Award® Nominee | 13 minutes | 2011 | United Kingdom psychiatrist (Martin Freeman) is called in to examine Voorman (Tom Hollander), a prisoner with a peculiar affliction: he believes he is a god. AHumorous but insightful dialogue ensues, as the doctor must decide whether or not to ship the prisoner to an asylum. Director’s Statement: Mark Gill I was pointed in the direction of the source material for this short (an excerpt from David Mitchell’s novel Number9Dream) by a friend who had enjoyed anoth- er short film I made about two angels who are bored. TIMES Director: Mark Gill Producer: Baldwin Li He knew I’d be attracted to the darkly comedic and Thursday 9:40pm Screenwriters: Mark Gill, Baldwin Li whimsical tone of the story. Friday 6:40m Cinematographer: Phil Wood I am constantly in awe of the work actors do and to have had the pleasure Sunday 6:40pm Editors: Mark Gill, Baldwin Li of working alongside two of the UK’s finest — whose talent was matched by Music: Baldwin Li their generosity — was truly an honour. P L A Y S I N Principal Cast: Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander Selected Filmography: Directorial Debut Short Stories (p 69) thevoormanproblem.com
PAGE 81 SHORTS Winter Has Come 6 minutes | 2012 | Russia young girl falls asleep while reading a fairy tale. In her dream, she envisions the changing of the seasons, transforming the colors and Atextures of the woodland landscape and the activities of its wildlife, the foxes and bears. The enchanting narrative of this animated Russian film serenely unfolds through the use of delicate textiles. Director’s Statement: Vassiliy Shlychkov Pursuing ceramics, I recently started to make experiments with lace, leaving its marks on the clay. The idea of the film was born of itself, when I came out of the workshop. It was the beginning of winter. It was snowing and all TIMES Director: Vassiliy Shlychkov Producer: Lyubov Gaidukova was a silver-white. I saw a girl wearing a ginger coat, Fr 10:10am & 12:40pm Executive Producer: Lyubov Gaidukova and in my mind all at once came together. I understood: Sa 12:40pm Screenwriter: Vassiliy Shlychkov “Winter has come…” Sunday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Vassiliy Shlychkov Selected Filmography: Clay Editor: Vassiliy Chirkov P L A Y S I N Music: Alexander Chirkov, Vassily Zirin Animator: Vassiliy Chirkov Family Shorts (p 25) sharstudio.com
Women’s Letters 12 minutes | 2013 | France n the battlefields of the First World War, the nurse, Simon, patches up the shattered bodies of the infantrymen with love letters. The words from Obeloved women at home have the power to heal the wounds of these animated paper soldiers. [subtitles] Director’s Statement: Augusto Zanovello The aesthetic style and technique chosen to produce this film are an essential part of the story itself. The film originates from a very simple underlying idea: that during war, man is in reality as fragile as paper itself. Soldiers die on the battlefield, they are wounded, they become TIMES Director: Augusto Zanovello destroyed. As well as the physical harm they suffer, there Producer: Gilbert Hus is also the mental anguish. The fear, the loneliness, the fact Executive Producer: Gilbert Hus Thursday 12:40pm they miss their nearest and dearest. So what is it that keeps Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriters: Augusto Zanovello, Jean Charles Finck, Arnaud Béchet them going? Getting a letter via the post. Letters from loved ones. Words that Monday 12:40pm Cinematographer: Cyril Maddalena they embrace, that they cherish, that literally do save their lives. Editor: Etienne Jeantet P L A Y S I N Music: Christian Perret Selected Filmography: Rue de la Lune, Matich Fastich, Le Roi Mathias Animation Shorts Animator: Arnaud Béchet Principal Cast: Constantin Pappas, (p 69) Adeline Moreau, Jerome Pauwells project-images.webalpes.net/index.php/ catalogue/item/310-lettresdefemmes
PAGE 82 SHORTS Yearbook 6 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition man struggles to condense the history of the world onto a device with limited memory before the Earth is destroyed by aliens. The product of A2,000 handmade pencil drawings, the film is comic but also touching and surreal, and leaves us pondering some big questions: What is important in life? What should be remembered? Director’s Statement: Bernardo Britto It’s hard to make anything when you realize how much stuff has already been made and how, at best, it will only be around for another thousand or so years. Which is TIMES Director: Bernardo Britto sort of a blip in the history of the universe. So if whatever Producers: Brett Potter, movie I make will end up being a blip of a blip of a blip of Thursday 12:40pm Lucas Leyva, Ben Cohen a blip, if whatever I make will be as forgotten as I will be, Sunday 9:40pm Screenwriter: Bernardo Britto or all my friends will be, or all of these things that we as Monday 12:40pm Music: Matthew Cooper humans have tried to build up...then the movie I make might as well be a movie Animator: Bernardo Britto about that. And, that kind of sucks, but what can you do? P L A Y S I N Selected Filmography: Wisdom Teeth, Places Where We Lived Animation Shorts (p 69)
YOUNG AMERICANS 30 minutes | 2013 | USA | In Competition n the verge of aging out of foster care, seventeen-year-old Mercedes Harper needs money and she needs it now. She manipulates Denver OThomas, a former high school classmate with a massive crush on her, to help her plan and execute a bank robbery. Director’s Statement: Kevin Lacy At its core, YOUNG AMERICANS is about love and the lengths to which we’ll go to get it from those who just can’t seem to give it back to us. It’s a story about a boy in love with a girl and a girl seemingly incapable of love...and oh yeah, it’s also about a bank robbery. Selected Filmography: Love Sick, Oxygen, The Man Who Found D.B. Cooper TIMES Director: Kevin Lacy Producer: Alejandro Torroja Fr 12:10pm Screenwriter: Kevin Lacy Sa 6:10pm, Su 9:40am Cinematographer: Kristin Fieldhouse Editor: Lilly Urban Mo 3:10pm Music: Victoria De La Vega Principal Cast: Stevie Lynn Jones, P L A Y S W I T H Matthew Van Oss, Michelle Bernard Too Close to the Raven youngamericansfilm.com (p 66)
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Tricia Acheatel Aaron Brian Abby Conte Bill Elliott Devin Hutchings Steven Addington Jennifer Brian* Shannon Cornish* Natalie Emerson Emma Idiart Swirl Alexander* Jim Bronson Katy Cowan Rob Engorn Carol Ingelson* Bob Altaras* David Bruce* Hern Crane Louise Engorn Alan Ives* Larry Anderson Nancy Buono Joanne Crane Dave Etchie* Mysti Jacob Sharon Anderson* Reagan Burrell Merle Creller* Pam Evans* Nadzieja Janota-Wilt Sunny Anderson Ana Byers April Crist Diana Fairbanks Richard Jacquot William Ashbey Lisa Bylsma Katie Crocker Elizabeth Fairchild Heather Jaxx Ellen Babin Susan Cain* Melanie Crume Christine Fernlund Honora Johnson Paula Bandy* Kori Calvert Cheryl Cullen Kathryn Finwall Karan Johnson Teah Banks Scott Calvert Malinda Curry Bill Fischer Chris Karas John Barnard* Jeanne Camarena-Revis Wendy Daniel Gerald Fried* Brad Kauder* Katy Barnard Mary Canfield* Megan Davey Annette Fried* Eliza Kauder* Jan Bayshor Michael Carew Hilary Davidson Patricia Fuhrman* Noah Kay* Lori Bennett Nicole Carmichael Jedediah Davis Dennis Funk* Zachary Kennedy Amanda Berkeley* Rena Carr Samar Dawisha* Daja Gagnon Tony Kerwin* Michael Berkeley* Peggy Carson* Diane DeMerritt Dave Garcia* Kalona Kierstede Donna Boehm* Al Case Elise DeWit Sherry Garner Sally Kirkpatrick Adam Bogle* Ashley Champagne Gary Dickson Alexandra Gastelum Diane Kish* Ann Marie Boniakowski* Andrew Charles Debi Dieterich Paris Geiken* Stephen Kish* James Bowland* Linda Chitwood Cathy Dombi Aubrie Georgevitch John Kloetzel* Shirley Boyce Kaivalya (Kai) Chotard Tom Doolittle Andrea Georgevitch* Susan Kohlmann Katri Boyd Catherine Cogdill Laura Doty Alex Georgevitch* Lillian Koppelman Elisa Brady Harper Conner Sallie Ehrman Liz Gibbons Patti Kramer* Coleen Bremmer Rich Conner* Karissa Eibner Karen Giese Audrey Kramm Gordy Gilmore Leanne Krieger Kate Gilworth Richard Krieger Taylor Gimbel Sue Kurth Amanda Ginos Laurie Kurutz* Greg Goebelt Samir Lakhouiri Leslie Gore Dan LaLande Tyrone Grandison Sierra Lambert Mariko Greaves Alex Landt Shirley Grega* Ian Larive Constance Griggs Sarah Lasoff Cindy Gross Mary Ellen Lee Al Grosz* Sarrah LeMoss Kimberly Hall Hannah Leone Michael Harrington Beth Levin Amber Harris Annette Lewis* Amanda Hart Peter Linington* Patti Hartel* Jean Linington* Cate Hartzell* Ken Loders Nancy Hayes Ken Loftus William Heimann* Mason London Julia Heinlein Isabel Lowery Louis Helt Carl Lukens* Bettie Henry Michael Mace Krista Hepford Cori Magarian* Michael Hersh* Ann Marie Magill* Buck Hickman* Katherine Mahoney Jessie Hobart* Trish Malone Johanna Hobart Crane* Randy Maple Kelsey Hoeper Rosa Lee Maple Yvet Holmes David Markewitz Anita Holser Ayla Marsden Mary Holt June Mather* Rowan Houghton Cornelius Matteo
PAGE 86 Sarah McCleister Akkie Pelsma* Maya Seligman* Lindsay Taylor Karlie Wilhelmi Amora McConnell Rubi Perkinson Claire Shank Hayden Teachout Timothy Williams Wade McQueen Chris Peterson Seth Shank Amber Gayle Thalmayer Janelle Wilson* Sugar Mejia Stephanie Peterson* Louise Shawkat Marty Thommes* Debra Wilson Trevor Mejia Zoey Petrone Nancy Shea Joan Thorndike* Nina Winans* Christine Menefee* Tege Phillips Ann Sierka Monica Tiffany Scott Wood Brandon Meyer Gene Phipps Clayton Sierra Karen Toloui Gabrielle Yorston Merrily Miller Janet Rantz* Steve Sincerny* Jim Tompkins Kassia Zegzdryn Carolyn Moeglein Madison Reames Bailey Singleton Kathy Tompkins Mary Zvonek* Jerry Molinaro* Melanie Rene Wendy Siporen Bill Tuck Jessica Mongolo* Anjie Reynolds Kadie Skou Brooke Turner …and all of our Peggy Moore* Chris Robinson Marcus Smith Richard Twiest new volunteers and Marianne Morgan Eveline Robinson Natasha Sol Bindu Van Camp anyone we inadvertently Marsa Morse* Denise Ross Mira Sophia Stacy Van Voorhees omitted. Stefanie Moss April Rosenthal Erin Stewart Morgan Vann Trisha Mullinnix Brady Rubin Victoria “Simone” Venita Varga* Ryan Munn Sherri Rudai Stewart Rowan Varvais Betty Myers Steve Russo Rich Stickle* Sooney Viani * Names with an asterisk Sofia Nash Cynthia Salbato Gloria Stone* Jessica Vineyard indicate 5 years or more Abigail Nelson Lara Scanlon Eric Strahl Judy Voruz of devoted volunteer Linda Newberry Derek Scanlon Trisha Stricklin Ryan Walker service. Mary Ollila Tasha Schaal Nellie Strong Park Walker Rainy Olsen Mimi Schaefer-Sharp Sugeet * Rad Welles Names in bold Dena Pacitti Margid Schaefer-Sharp Rebecca Summers Daniel Wells indicate members of Brandon Parnell Alexa Scharf Elaine Sweet Sandra Wetzel* the dedicated volunteer Connie Parrish* Jamie Schnably Brad Taft Annie Whang management team. Lilli Patton Mark Schneider* Janis Taft David Wilbur
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PAGE 87 DONORS & MEMBERS Earle Sloan DONORS Darrel Pearce* Fan Jim and Sandi Risser* Alice Baker Vanya Sloan $1,000+ John Stadelman Karen Barrow Linda Struthers Paul and Rosemary Adalian* Jana Carole and Keith Swink* Richard Barth Harry Struthers William and Julia Ashbey* Chel White Debra Barth Karena Toal Anne Ashbey George Wilson John Barton Paul Turner Andy and Annette Batzer* Jan Boggia Jonathan William Brandt Cullen and up to $99 Frank Dill Nina Winans Melinda Beck Sandra Claypool Paula Dill Paul Winans Carol Benson Jacque Notrica Dot Fisher-Smith Annie Winch Jim Collier Angela Decker Larry Gamroth Cathy Carrier and Paul Collins Stef Seffinger Lynn Gates Indie George Consagra Thomas Dumont Udo Gorsch-Nies Jay Ach Christine Donchin* Ben and Linda Bellinson Keeley Kirkendall Georgia Bailey Don and Diana Fairweather* Carol Bue Debra Koutnik Lisa Bailey Sharon Harris Roanna Rosewood Eleanor Lippman Paula Barrett Elizabeth Hoffmann* Hugette Albrecht Mitzi Loftus Doris Bass Ronald and Noreen Hulteen* Bruce Albert and Sandy Friend Kathy Mooney Sidney Bass Jerry Kenefick* Holly and Tommy Easton Sabina Nies Karen Beck Mike and Connie Markovich Rebecca Ross Bob Palzer Rebecca Bolling Michael Moore and Kelly Birch Allen and Karen Drescher Jody Palzer Peter Bolling Doug Nash and Ursula Scott and Kathy Carter Raja Rao Erin Brender Hortsmann-Nash Saione Penn Paul Sher Suzanne Becker Bronk Pam Leandro Notch and Lew Nash and Kate Thill Joan Sher Duward Brown Gerald Notch* Stewart Reid Gayle Slates Richard Browne Wolfgang Platzer and Linda Marshik W. Sagen Smith Alan Burjoski Patricia Orsini* Nancy Zaremski Tamara Songster Sheila Canal Maylee Oddo* Claudia Alick Brad Wartman Larry Chapman Liz Chapman Charles and Linda Rudd *The AIFF is grateful to these Ron Weinhold Karin Cherney Sarah Sameh* and Jay Reeck* individuals for supporting the Elizabeth Whitman John and Candace Schweiger Wanda Chin work of our nonprofit organization Cine Karen Smith* with a tax-deductible donation Karen Clarke Cathy Dombi and in addition to their annual Brenda Barca Jean Conger Philip Trautman* membership. Thank you! Virginia Allen Ellen Corey Betsy Bradshaw Don Davidson $500+ Beverly Burgess Alice Davidson Debra and Richard Barth* MEMBERS Carolyn Burgess Linda Davis Jean and Peter Linington* Richard Cherney Tom Davis John and Marilyn Love* Executive Producer Victor Chieco Lawrence Diamant Katherine and Rand Roselli* Elizabeth Mandel Eileen Chieco Christa Diamant Donna and Joel Taylor* Carol Doty Cindy Earle Producer Ken Green Beecher Ellison $100+ Richard Hay Jeannie Green John Engelhardt Rick Bleiweiss and Nancy Honig Glenda Feinsmith Deborah Morgan* Director Nancy Keeley Barry Feinsmith Ed and Mary Jo Baich Sheila Burns Joanne Kliejunas Steve Fenwick Jim and Nancy Beaver* Anne Decker Margita Lagrotta Jack Gibbs Susan and Rob Cain* Walter Dilts Stacy Lange Jeff Golden Karin and Richard Cherney* Christina Ford Wade Lange Tyrone Grandison Brock Dumont* Krista Johnson Ronald Little Heidi Grossman Cindy Earle* John Love Claudia Little Chuck Gusak Carole and David Florian* Barbara Lovre Marilyn Love Paul Haber Ryan George Randy Lovre Irving Lubliner Brad Hagen Barbara Hetland* Carl Marsak Daric Lucero Lou Hakanson Helen Jones* Mark Mihaljevich Penny Mikesell Sharron Halvorson Richard Kluck Karen Mihaljevich Peggy Moore Jim Hatfield Leanne and Richard Krieger Kenneth Perkins David Price Tony Haulk Donna and Greer Markle* Beth Stark Patricia Rao Christine Hendry Nancy Tait and Jeff Monosoff Dick Sweet Rand Roselli Barbara Hetland Gregg Olson* Elaine Sweet Kathy Roselli Polly Hodges PAGE 88 Joe Horn Amy Young Leigh Hood Diane Schaffer Hannah Horn Albie Zajack Joe Horn Mark Schoenleber Amanda Iles Elisabeth Zinser Hannah Horn Elizabeth Schoenleber Sara Johnson Carol Ingelson Mary Schomburg Helen Jones Friend Nancy James Howard Schreiber Richard Kaplan Jacquelyn Agee Richard Katz Janet Schreiber John Kloetzel Doug Banks Brad Kauder Art Schreiber Patti Kramer John Barker Eliza Kauder Patty Seereiter Sue Kurth Marlyn Barrick David Kelly Karen Serrett David Lane Nancy Beaver Taylor Jo Kelly-Mcmahon Robert Serrett Patti Lane Marilyn Borkin Sandra Kipp Emery Paul Siegel Ron Lang Ira Brady Rubin Susan Knapp Terri Siegel Katharine Lang Sara Brown Laurie Kurutz Emily Simon Shari Lawrence Bobby Burton Susan Lander Steve Sincerny John Lawrence Lenna Burton Connie Lynn Sharon Skolnik Tim Learmont Terry Cain Margaret Machala Elizabeth Smith Phyllis Leilani Halstead Mary Canfield Karen Macinnes Janet Sneider-Brown Katja Machcinski Brandy Carson Greer Markle Karen Spence Ann Marie Magill Bob Carter Marcia Martin Susan Springer Donna Markle Laurie Carter Terry Martin Mark Stein Kathy Marsak Sylvia Chatroux Nancy Mcleod Paul Steinle Barbara Mathieson Ellen Cianciarulo Nancy Mendenhall Teri Stember Stan Mazor Marea Claassen Christine Menefee Michael Stember Maurine Mazor Paul Clark Susan Miler Barbara Stout Nancy Mendenhall Joan Cohen Carolyn Mitchell Carlyle Stout Kitty Meyer Greg Conaway Stanley Mitchell Roy Sutton J.R. Miller Richard Dalmaso Chris Mock Marge Sutton Ron Mogel Rosemary Dunn Dalton Susan Mock Tamsin Taylor Alethia Moore-Del Monaco Lanette Demoulin Geni Moots-Plotnick Daniel Thorndike Doug Nasstrom Gary Dickson Nancy Morgan Joan Thorndike Karson Nasstrom Jeanne Dickson Bob Morse Heidi Timko Linda Niehaus Lucy Dobson Craig Muedeking Richard Twiest Linda Ohmans David Doi Elle Naitoh Lynn Twiest Gregg Olson Bruce Duncan Antoinetta Neville Mimi Umpleby Patricia Orsini Trudy Duncan Kevin Neville Marshall Umpleby Heidi Parker Eileen Dunn Patricia Newton Leslie Van Gelder Bill Parr Ida Edwards Vincent Ohare Melinda Wagner Thomas Pentland Mark Elliott Carole Ohare Lynda Weinhold Francis Plowman John Emery Diane Olsen George Westermark Jackie Ralph Rae Ann Engdahl Marlene Olson Carol Whitelaw Wayne Ralph Marla Estes Elma Ondrey John Whitelaw Mujahid Rizvi Dee Anne Everson James Orr Scott Whitman Sheri Roberts John Ferris Francie Parr Debra Wolfson Donna Rose Mindy Ferris Bill Parr …and all our newest Aleksandra Sander Jim Flint Darrel Pearce supporters and anyone Leah Schindler David Florian Joe Peterson we inadvertently left out. Susan Seereiter Carole Florian Stephanie Peterson Carolyn Shaffer Bryan Frink Mallory Pierce David Shepard Patricia Fuhrman Steven Plotnick Your membership Doug Sierka Dave Garcia Mary Pat Power provides vital support Ann Sierka Andrea Georgevitch Janet Reavis that allows us to Stephanie Stewart Mary Ann Gernegliaro Stan Redkey continue our Jeanne Taylor Marta Gomez Deborah Rennie Philip Trautman Hollis Greenwood Zachary Rich year-round cultural Patrick Wedlake Steve Gregory Ed Rizzuti and educational Martha Wilson Laurie Gregory Joan C Roberts programs. Nancy Wisnia Daniel Hamnett Helen Rosen Thank you! Jerry Wisnia Dorothea Hatch Kathy Rosengren Matthew Witt Kimberly Hauschild Michael Ross Vince Wixon Patt Herdklotz Wendy Ross Patty Wixon Jill Hill Brady Rubin Frann Wolfe John Holloway Bill Sager
PAGE 89 THANKS AIFF Filmmakers Alex Georgevitch Porter, Chief Security Officer Paul and Rosemary Adalian Gilded Rogue and Director of Office Scavenging Katie Ahern Brandon Givens and the Portland Japanese Gardens Amelia Arapoff SOU Digital Media Center Printfast Ashland Fly Shop Scott Glenn Project A Staff Ashland Home Net Staff Diane DeMerritt and Daniel Hamnett Revive Home Decor Ashland Outdoor Store Carol Harris Riff Barbara Allen & Jim Batzer Billy Harto Rogue Design Group BD Metalworks, Beth Dolos Barbara Helfand Rogue Valley Roasting Company Darlene Beckett Brent Hinkley Dale and Kim Rooklyn Ken Bendat Ashland Home Net Staff Ruby’s BendFilm Festival Leah and Aidan Hostetler David Ruppe Bravo Outings Miles Inada Kylee Ruvalcaba, SOU Intern Britt Festival Indigo Creek Outfitters Sammich Brother’s Restaurant Irvine Vineyards Cynthia Scherr Ron Burgess Jerry Kenefick and Cindy Barnard Louise Shawkat Cabot Vineyards Kobe Soroptimist International of Ashland Rob and Susan Cain Gary Kout SOU Digital Media Center Kori and Scott Calvert Jimmy Leavens, SOU Intern Southern Oregon University Ellie Carter Hannah Leone Martha Stadelman Laurie and Bob Carter Liquid Assets Mark Stein Scott Carter Lithia Springs Resort Mike and Glenna Stiles Laura Chisholm Little Shop of Bagels Stoel Rives LLC Mavis Cloutier Ted Loftus and Katherine Mahoney Brent Streeper Joe Collogne Anne Lundgren Peter and Kristy Sturges Danforth Comins Gary Lundgren Finnian Sullivan Chance Conner David Margulies Casey Swanson Harper Conner Cornelius Matteo Elaine and Dick Sweet Paris Conner Annie McIntyre, McIntyre Designs Hayden Teachout Rich Conner Milagros The Beau Club Grill Core Business Services Alan and Mary Miller The Hollywood Theatre Bob Graybill and Carol Couch Carolyn Moeglein The Lunch Show Melanie Crume Momentum Rafting The Peerless Hotel & Restaurant Dan Decena and Morgan Sammons Nimbus The Synopsis Savant Anne Decker Zan Nix and Lloyd Haines Toki Cavener Photography Chris Doran Noble Coffee Roasting Barbara and Bill Tricarico Sean Downey Ashley Nunes Jane VanDyke Julie Downey, Gateway Real Estate Lee Olsen Varsity Theatre Staff Len and Karen Eisenberg Karin Onkka Daniel Verner Natalie Emerson Pairings Portland Wine Shop Randy Voris Esalen Institute Pangea Park Walker Marla Estes Gracie Pfister Water Street Cafe Ben Feinberg Sean Pfister Martha Wilhelm and Tomaseen Foley Jack Feinberg Fessica Piekielek Todd Wilson Jeff Feinberg Emma Pierotti Christi Wruck Rachel Feinberg Leo Pierotti Guy Wulfing John and Claire Golden-Fields Port Townsend Film Festival Marta Zegzdryn Rocky Garrotto Vince Porter Michelle and Jeff Zundel
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PAGE 90 SCHEDULE THURSDAY 4/3/14
VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats
9am
12pm | Doc | 12:20pm | Feature | 12:40pm | Shorts | 12:10pm | Doc & 12:30pm | Doc | 115 min 100 min 79 min Short | 79 min 83 min
12pm Watchers Free Fall Animation Of Kites and Elena of the Sky Shorts Borders Tiger Boy
3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Doc | 3:10pm | Feature | 3:30pm | Feature | 83 min 72 min 90 min 89 min 98 min 3pm Web Monk With a Rich Hill Forev Copenhagen Camera
6pm | Feature | 6:20pm | Docs | 6:40pm | Feature 6:10pm | 6:30pm | Doc | 6pm | Doc | 7:30-10:30pm | 104 min 79 min & Short | 95 min Feature & Short | 76 min 112 min Party 6pm Just a Sigh Short Docs Drunktown’s 98 min My Prairie The Case Opening Night Finest The Animal Home Against 8 Bash Dig Project Opening at Ashland Springs The Night Film Hotel Otherworldly
9pm | Docs | 9:20pm | Feature | 9:40pm | Shorts | 9:10pm | Feature 9:30pm | Feature 89 min 91 min 92 min & Short | 92 min & Short | 80 min 9pm Uranium Bluebird Short Stories Too Close to Hank and Asha Drive-In the Raven Verbatim Elvis Loses His YOUNG Excess AMERICANS
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PAGE 91 SCHEDULE FRIDAY 4/4/14
VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats
9:30am | Doc | 9:50am | Doc | 10:10am | Doc | 9:40am | Doc & 10am | Docs | 9:30am | Docs & 10:10am | Shorts | 10am | Panel | 83 min 72 min 90 min Short | 79 min 77 min Short | 85 min 51 min 90 min 9am Web Monk With a Rich Hill Of Kites and Sometimes Oscar Shorts 1 Family Shorts Filmmaker Camera Borders I Dream I’m TalkBack: Not Flying Tiger Boy the Same Old Buffalo Story Dreams at Ashland Springs A Man’s Place Hotel 12pm | Doc | 12:20pm | Docs | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | Shorts | 103 min 93 min Feature | 95 min Feature & Short | Feature | 98 min 98 min 51 min
12pm Harlan County Kiss the Water Before I 92 min Copenhagen Last Days in Family Shorts USA Notes on Disappear Too Close to the Vietnam Blindness Raven YOUNG AMERICANS
3pm | Docs | 3:20pm | Feature | 3:40pm | Doc | 3:10pm | Doc & 3:30pm | Feature 3pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Shorts 89 min 91 min 82 min Short | 79 min & Short | 80 min 93 min & Docs | 42 min 3pm Uranium Bluebird Secret Of Kites and Hank and Asha Running Wild: Locals Only 1 Drive-In Screening Borders Verbatim The Life of Elvis Loses His Tiger Boy Dayton O. Hyde Excess
6pm | Feature | 6:20pm | Docs | 6:40pm | Shorts | 6:10pm | Feature 6:30pm | Doc | 6pm | 90 min 6:40pm | Feature | 5-8pm | 83 min 85 min 92 min & Short | 98 min 83 min 80 min First Friday
6pm Conversation Obvious Child Dangerous Short Stories The Animal Elena with Ernest & Sandra Acts Project Barbara Celestine Boynton I think this is The Kopple Gallery Event the closest to Otherworldly how the footage looked
9pm | Doc | 9:20pm | Feature | 9:40pm | Feature | 9:10pm | Feature | 9:30pm | Doc | 9pm | Doc | 9:40pm | Shorts 105 min 100 min 92 min 89 min 76 min 92 min & Doc | 49 min 9pm The Internet’s Free Fall Ping Pong Forev My Prairie This Ain’t No Locals Only 2 Own Boy: The Summer Home Mouse Music! Launch College Story of Aaron Award Swartz
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PAGE 92 SCHEDULE SATURDAY 4/5/14
VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats
9:30am | Docs | 9:50am | Docs | 10:10am | Doc | 9:40am | Feature 10am | Doc | 9:30am | Doc | 10:10am | Shorts 10am | Panel | 89 min 85 min 87 min & Short | 98 min 83 min 95 min & Docs | 42 min 90 min 9am Uranium Dangerous Acts Marmato The Animal Elena Mission Blue Locals Only 1 Filmmaker Drive-In I think this is Project (see website Launch Awards TalkBack: The Elvis Loses His the closest to The for details) Other Side of Excess how the Otherworldly the Aisle footage looked at Ashland Springs Hotel
12pm | Feature | 12:20pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | Feature 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 104 min 72 min Feature | 92 min Feature | 89 min & Short | 80 min 105 min Shorts | 51 min 12pm Just a Sigh Monk With a Ping Pong Forev Hank and Asha Running From Family Shorts Camera Summer Verbatim Crazy
3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Docs | 3:40pm | Doc | 3:10pm | Feature 3:30pm | Doc | 3pm | Doc | 3:40pm | Feature | 115 min 79 min 82 min & Short | 98 min 76 min 88 min 80 min 3pm Watchers of Short Docs Secret The Animal My Prairie Burt’s Buzz Ernest & the Sky Screening Project Home Celestine The Otherworldly
6pm | Doc | 6:20pm | Feature | 6:40pm | Feature 6:10pm | Feature 6:30pm | Docs | 6pm | 90 min 105 min 91 min & Short | 95 min & Short | 92 min 77 min
6pm Conversation The Internet’s Bluebird Drunktown’s Too Close to the Sometimes with Own Boy: The Finest Raven I Dream I’m Ty Burrell Flying Story of Aaron Dig YOUNG Swartz AMERICANS Buffalo Dreams A Man’s Place
9pm | Feature | 9:20pm | Docs | 9:40pm | Feature | 9:10pm | Doc & 9:30pm | Feature | 9pm | Doc | 83 min 93 min 95 min Short | 79 min 98 min 75 min 9pm Obvious Child Kiss the Water Before I Of Kites and Copenhagen Mistaken for Notes on Disappear Borders Strangers Blindness Tiger Boy
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PAGE 93 SCHEDULE SUNDAY 4/6/14
VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats
9:30am | Doc | 9:50am | Docs | 10:10am | 9:40am | Feature 10am | Doc | 9:30am | Docs & 10am | Panel | 83 min 93 min Feature & Short | & Short | 92 min 76 min Short | 94 min 90 min 9am Web Kiss the Water 95 min Too Close to My Prairie Oscar Shorts 2 Filmmaker Notes on Drunktown’s the Raven Home TalkBack: Blindness Finest YOUNG Kickstarted: Dig AMERICANS A Case Study at Ashland Springs Hotel
12pm | Feature | 12:20pm | 12:40pm | Doc | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | Doc | 12pm | Doc | 12:40pm | 83 min Feature | 91 min 87 min Feature | 89 min 83 min 95 min Shorts | 51 min 12pm Obvious Child Bluebird Marmato Forev Elena Ivory Tower Family Shorts
3pm | Doc | 3:20pm | Docs | 3:40pm | Feature | 3:10pm | Feature | 3:30pm | Feature | 105 min 85 min 95 min 89 min 98 min 3pm The Internet’s Dangerous Acts Before I Forev Copenhagen Own Boy: The I think this is Disappear Story of Aaron the closest to Swartz how the footage looked 6pm | Doc | 6:20pm | Doc | 6:40pm | Shorts | 6:10pm | Doc & 6:30pm | Feature 7:30-11pm | 115 min 72 min 92 min Short | 79 min & Short | 80 min Party 6pm Watchers of Monk With a Short Stories Of Kites and Hank and Asha Awards the Sky Camera Borders Verbatim Celebration Tiger Boy at Armory
9pm | Feature | 9:20pm | Docs | 9:40pm | Shorts | 9:10pm | Feature 9:30pm | Docs | 104 min 79 min 79 min & Short | 98 min 77 min 9pm Just a Sigh Short Docs Animation The Animal Sometimes Shorts Project I Dream I’m The Flying Otherworldly Buffalo Dreams A Man’s Place
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PAGE 94 SCHEDULE MONDAY 4/7/14
VARSITY 1 VARSITY 2 VARSITY 3 VARSITY 4 VARSITY 5 ARMORY ASHLAND SPECIAL 176 seats 97 seats 132 seats 30 seats 42 seats 450 seats ST. CINEMA EVENTS 161 seats
9:30am | Feature 9:50am | Feature | 10:10am | Doc | 9:40am | Feature | 10am | Docs | 100 min 90 min 89 min 77 min 9am Audience Award: Best Free Fall Rich Hill Forev Sometimes Feature I Dream I’m Flying Buffalo Dreams A Man’s Place
12pm | Doc 12:20pm 12:40pm | 12:10pm | 12:30pm | Juried Award: TBA 1 Shorts | 79 min Feature & Short | Feature & Short | 12pm Best Animation 92 min 80 min Documentary Shorts Too Close to Hank and Asha the Raven Verbatim YOUNG AMERICANS
3pm | Shorts & 3:20pm 3:40pm | Feature | 3:10pm | 3:30pm | Doc | Docs | 49 min 95 min Feature & Short | 83 min
3pm TBA 2 Locals Only 2 Before I 92 min Elena Disappear Too Close to the Raven YOUNG AMERICANS
6pm | Feature 6:20pm | Docs | 6:40pm 6:10pm | Feature 6:30pm | Feature | Juried Award: 79 min & Short | 98 min 98 min
6pm TBA 3 Best Feature Short Docs The Animal Copenhagen Project The Otherworldly
9pm | Doc 9:20pm 9:40pm | Doc | 9:10pm | Doc & 9:30pm | Doc | 87 min Short | 79 min 76 min
9pm Audience Juried & Award: Best Audience Marmato Of Kites and My Prairie Documentary Award Winning Borders Home Shorts Tiger Boy
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PAGE 95 FILM INDEX
Alligator Stroll ...... 70 Kiss the Water ...... 35 Animal Cookies ...... 70 Last Days in Vietnam ...... 37 The Animal Project ...... 59 The Lion’s Mouth Opens ...... 55 Before I Disappear ...... 59 Lomax ...... 76 Best ...... 70 Looms ...... 76 Be Yourself ...... 22 MACROPOLIS ...... 76 Bluebird ...... 60 Magic Shop ...... 22 Brooklyn Farmer ...... 50 A Man’s Place ...... 55 Buffalo Dreams ...... 50 Marmato...... 37 Burt’s Buzz ...... 30 Mistaken for Strangers ...... 38 Butter Lamp ...... 71 Monk With a Camera: The Life and Journey The Case Against 8...... 30 of Nicholas Vreeland...... 38 CaveDigger ...... 50 The Morning of Everything ...... 77 Compassion ...... 22 Mr Hublot ...... 77 Copenhagen ...... 60 My Prairie Home ...... 39 CowBurd ...... 71 Necrotic ...... 23 Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Notes on Blindness...... 55 Elements of Belarus ...... 31 Obvious Child...... 66 Dig ...... 71 Of Kites and Borders ...... 39 Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? ...... 73 The Otherworldly...... 77 Drunktown’s Finest ...... 61 Ping Pong Summer ...... 67 Elegies...... 22 Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall...... 57 Elena ...... 31 Requiem for Romance ...... 79 The Elf and the Wizard ...... 22 Rich Hill ...... 41 Elvis Loses His Excess & Other Tales From The World’s . Rougarouing ...... 57 Longest Yard Sale ...... 51 Running From Crazy ...... 41 Enemies ...... 23 Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde...... 43 Ernest & Celestine ...... 61 Secret Agent Jill ...... 22 Facing Fear ...... 51 Secret Screening ...... 43 Feral ...... 73 Sometimes I Dream I’m Flying ...... 45 Forev ...... 63 Spacebound ...... 79 The Fox and the Chickadee ...... 73 Stranded ...... 22 Free Fall ...... 63 Street Deer...... 22 God’s Got His Head in the Clouds ...... 75 Subconscious Password ...... 79 Godka Cirka–A Hole In the Sky...... 51 Symphony no. 42 ...... 80 Hacked Circuit ...... 53 That Wasn’t Me ...... 80 Hank and Asha ...... 65 This Ain’t No Mouse Music! ...... 45 Hannah and the Moon ...... 75 Tiger Boy ...... 80 Harlan County USA ...... 33 Too Close to the Raven ...... 67 High Wind Advisory ...... 23 Tram ...... 81 His Girl Goliath ...... 23 Uranium Drive-In ...... 46 The Human Puppet...... 22 Verbatim ...... 81 I Believe In Unicorns ...... 65 The Voorman Problem ...... 81 The Importance of Bees ...... 22 Watchers of the Sky ...... 46 The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz...... 33 Web ...... 47 I think this is the closest to how the footage looked ...... 53 What We Were Gonna Do ...... 23 Ivory Tower...... 35 Winter Has Come ...... 82 Just a Sigh...... 66 Women’s Letters ...... 82 Just Before Losing Everything...... 75 Yearbook ...... 83 Karama Has No Walls ...... 53 YOUNG AMERICANS ...... 83
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