Daytime Docs at the NHFPL

DAY 10: Saturday, June 8 Daytime Docs at the NHFPL

Friday, May 31st 11:00 AM – Community Program Room Deceptive Diplomacy (Axel Gordh Humlesjö & Ali Fegan, 2018) – 12min – Connecticut premiere - DECEPTIVE DIPLOMACY is a 2018 investigating documentary that exposed the cover-up within the UN to hide crucial evidence about 7:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New the murder of the UN experts Zaida Catalán and Michael Sharp in the Demo- Haven cratic Republic of Congo. Capitalism a Love Story (Michael Moore, 2009) 127mins 12:00 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room VHS Massacre (Kenneth Powell &Thomas Edward Seymour, 2016) – 72min – REPLAY of a favorite from NHdocs2016 - This award winning, lively documen- The issue Michael Moore has been examining throughout his career: the disas- tary explores the rise and fall of physical media and its effect on Independent trous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans. But and cult films. this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene is far wider than Flint, Michigan. 1:30 PM – Community Program Room After the screening there will be a short Q&A with Filmmaker Michael A Diplomat of Consequence (Christopher Teal, 2019) – 47min – New England premiere - Ebenezer Bassett had been an abolitionist, educator, and activist during the U.S. Civil War. When the United States emerged from that war, Pres- ident Grant to appointed black Americans like Bassett to senior government 10:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New positions. Bassett became the first American to integrate the diplomatic corps, Haven leaving a lasting impact on U.S. foreign policy. Late night with Michael Moore: Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007) 123min 2:30 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room Filmmaker Michael Moore will introduce Sicko. Major “Doc” Brown (JC Barone, 2017) – 40min - This is a story of fate, suffer- ing, and survival. Major Albert “Doc” Brown was a middle-aged dentist and U.S. SiCKO is a straight-from-the-heart portrait of the crazy and sometimes cruel Army reservist who went to war on a coin toss and his life was changed forever. U.S. health care system, told from the vantage of everyday people faced with extraordinary and bizarre challenges in their quest for basic health coverage. In 4:00 PM – Community Program Room the tradition of Mark Twain or Will Rogers, ‘SiCKO’ uses humor to tell these Black Beach / White Beach (Ricky Kelly, 2018) – 90min – Connecti- compelling stories, leading the audience to conclude that an alternative system cut premiere - A look at how the community of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is the only possible answer. views two national motorcycle festivals that happen a week apart in their town. One festival is primarily white, the other predominately black.

Monday, June 3rd 11:00 AM – Community Program Room The Last Pig (Allison Argo, 2017) – 60min – REPLAY of a favorite from NHdocs2018 - Through this personal journey, THE LAST PIG raises crucial questions about equality, the value of compassion and the sanctity of life. Comis’ soul-bearing narrative carries us through his final year of farming pigs, the struggle to reinvent his life, and the ghosts that will haunt him forever. Daytime Docs at the NHFPL DAY 10: Saturday, June 8 New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven 1:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven rd Monday, June 3 30th anniversary screening of Roger & Me (Michael Moore, 1989) 91mins 12:00 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room In 1989, Michael Moore burst onto the American moviemaking scene with Roger & Me. The groundbreaking documentary chronicled the efforts of the A second chance to see two of the amazing short documentaries from this world’s largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, year’s lineup: Michigan, into a ghost town. In his quest to discover why GM would want to do The Dog Healers (Karina Flomenbaum, 2019) – 29min such a thing, Michael Moore – a Flint native – attempts to meet the chairman, Roger Smith, and persuade him to come and visit Flint to see the destruction Flying Fur (Alicia Wszelaki, 2019) – 36min first-hand. 1:30 PM – Community Program Room After the screening, filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus join A second chance to see four of the amazing short documentaries from Michael Moore in conversation about Roger & Me. this year’s lineup: The Guy: The Brian Donahue Story (E.J. McLeavey-Fisher, 2019) – 19min The Island Man (Alex Morelli, 2019) – 20min Hebo (Kevin Wells, 2019) – 11min Lost Weekend (Bradford Thomason & Brett Whitcomb, 2019) – 2:30 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room Sickies Making Films (Joe Tropea, 2017) – 85min – REPLAY of a favorite from NHdocs2018 - Using the Maryland Board of Censors (1916-1981) as a lens, as well as archival materials, classic film segments, and interviews with filmmakers and exhibitors who were subjected to censorship, this documentary examines the recurring problem of censorship in America. 4:00 PM – Community Program Room Riplist (Mike Scholtz, 2019) – 67min – Connecticut premiere - A celebrity death pool is an unusual game in which players pick famous people they think will die in the next year. Riplist follows seven friends over the course of a year as they make their selections and live with the consequences. Because playing the 4:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New game of death teaches each of them about the value of life. Haven Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002) 119min Tuesday, June 4th Bowling for Columbine is an alternately humorous and horrifying film about the United States. It is a film about the state of the Union, about the violent soul of 11:00 AM – Community Program Room America. Why do 11,000 people die in America each year at the hands of gun Pas Sage / The mischief makers (Laura Taubman, 2019) – 75min – violence? The talking heads yelling from every TV camera blame everything U.S. Premiere - A year long dive into a public, but self-managed high school in from Satan to video games. But are we that much different from many other the south of Paris, France. countries? What sets us apart? How have we become both the master and vic- tim of such enormous amounts of violence? This is not a film about gun control. 12:00 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 mil- lion Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. Melody Makers (Leslie Ann Coles, 2017) – 78min – Connecticut premiere - a REPLAY in case you missed the screening on Sunday, June 2nd. After the screening, filmmakers DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus join Michael Moore in conversation about Bowling for Columbine. DAY 4: Friday, June 7 Daytime Docs at the NHFPL New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven 5:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven th Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis, 1974) 112min Tuesday, June 4 A startling and courageous film, Peter Davis’s landmark 1974 documen- 1:30 PM – Community Program Room tary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronted the United States’ involvement in The Millionaires' Unit -- U.S. Naval Aviators in the First World Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it. Using a wealth of Wars (Darroch Greer and Ron King, 2015) – 117min – Connecticut Premiere - sources—from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the up- A group of Yale college students form a private air militia and become the heaval it occasioned on the home front—Davis constructs a powerfully affecting founding squadron of the U.S. Naval Air Reserve, some of them making the picture of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and wrench- ultimate sacrifice in World War One. ing, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the most important nonfiction film ever made about this devastating period in history. 2:30 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room After the screening, filmmaker Michael Moore interviews director Peter Twenty Questions (Gorman Bechard, 1987) – 59min – REPLAY of a favorite Davis about Hearts and Minds. from NHdocs2017 – Thought lost since 1987, Bechard's strangest film is about life, death, everything . . . well, sort of. 4:00 PM – Community Program Room Who Killed Lt. Van Dorn? (Zachary Stauffer, 2018) – 80min – Connecti- cut premiere - Lt. Wes Van Dorn, a 29-year-old United States Naval Academy graduate and the married father of two young sons, died when the helicopter he was piloting crashed off the coast of Virginia during a 2014 training exercise. Motivated by her grief, his wife Nicole sought an explanation for the cause of the disaster. Her efforts spurred an investigation that uncovered a long history of negligence and institutional failings around the 53E helicopter—the model Van Dorn was piloting when he was killed, and the deadliest aircraft in the US military. Wednesday, June 5th 11:00 AM – Community Program Room 8:00 PM – Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Blue Breath (Rodrigo Areias, 2018) – 78min – New England Premiere - Haven Crushed by a volcano against the ocean, Ribeira Quente is a fishing village in S. Miguel Island in the Azores facing the last days of a fishing activity as they Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore, 2004) 112min know it. Everyone fights for normal days while life has to continue even with the With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, fish’s scarcity. Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us. He 12:00 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room looks at how – and why – Bush and his inner circle avoided pursuing the Saudi connection to 9/11, despite the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and Beatrix Farrand, Landscape Architect: Yale University (Karyl Evans, 2018) Saudi money had funded Al Qaeda. Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a nation kept in – 5min – REPLAY of a favorite from NHdocs2018 - A short documentary about constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece of legislation, the landscape architect Beatrix Farrand’s pioneering campus work for Yale Univer- USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights. It is in this atmosphere of sity from 1922 – 1945 including her plans for Marsh Botanic Garden, the resi- confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush Administration makes its head- dential college courtyards, the president’s garden, and the medical school long rush towards war in Iraq and Fahrenheit 9/11 takes us inside that war to among many others. tell the stories we haven’t heard, illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. sol- The New Haven Green: Heart of a City (Karyl Evans, 2015) – 30min – diers and their families. REPLAY of a favorite from NHdocs2015 - Narrated by Paul Giamatti, this documentary explores the rich history of the New Haven, Connecticut Green which After the screening, filmmaker Peter Davis interviews director Michael continues to be the center of civic, religious, educational, and commercial life in Moore about Fahrenheit 9/11. the city. Daytime Docs at the NHFPL DAYS 9-11: Friday, June 7-Sunday, June 9 New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven

Michael Moore Wednesday, June 5th With Peter Davis, DA Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus and 1:30 PM – Community Program Room Barbara Kopel Who Took Johnny? (David Beilinson, Michael Galinsky, & Suki Hawley, 2014) – 81min -an early film from one of NHdocs’ favorite documentarians - an exami- nation into the infamous thirty-seven year old cold case behind the disappear- ance of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch, the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. 2:30 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room Monumental: The Bears Ears Story (Cayley Geffen & Beau Brown, 2019) 35min – a REPLAY in case you missed the screening last night The Black Mountain (Anton von Heiseler, 2018) 49min – U.S. Premiere – a REPLAY in case you missed the screening last night 4:00 PM – Community Program Room Bungalow Sessions (Nicholas Droic, 2018) – 69min – New England premiere - Drolc wanted to make a film about contemporary American roots, folk and gos- pel music - however, he didn't want to leave his home base known as "the bungalow" in North Eastern France. He solved the geographical problem by invit- ing his favorite musicians to visit him, play in a local dive bar and subject them- selves to improvised questioning and field recordings the next morning at Drolc's dwellings. th Michael Moore has been a preeminent documentary filmmaker on Thursday, June 6 the world scenes for the last thirty year. Roger and Me (1989), his 11:00 AM – Community Program Room first feature, took on the scourge of deindustrialization which con- Battle for Brooklyn (Michael Galinsky, 2011) – 115min – an early film from one tinues to haunt America. His Oscar-winning Bowling for Colum- of NHdocs’ favorite documentarians - the story of reluctant activist Daniel Gold- bine (2002) investigates the uniquely American combination of stein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished gun ownership and school shootings: it remains as relevant and to make way for a professional basketball arena and the densest real estate timely today as when it was made. Fahrenheit 9/11, which won development in U.S. history. Along the way, he falls in love, gets married and the palme d’or at Cannes and became the top grossing documen- starts a family while living in a vacated building located at the heart of the pro- ject site. tary of all times, challenged the Bush administration and the web of lies used to launch the war in Iraq. His willingness to contest a 12:00 PM – Videotheque, Philip Marrett room decision that has had untold consequences for the United States Balian (the Healer) (Daniel McGuire, 2017) – 85min – (Second chance screen- and the world fully established Mike as a deeply courageous ing, in case you missed it on Sunday, June 2nd) - depicts the rise and fall of a filmmaker even as it made him a favorite target of right-wing politi- traditional Balinese healer after being ‘discovered’ by Western tourists. A fable of globalization that Alan Berliner calls ‘a magical portrait of a one-of-a-kind In- cal forces. At one point three of his documentaries were among donesian trickster/healer…It’s funny, too.” the top five top-grossing documentaries of all times. The recent release of Fahrenheit 11/9 inspired this first in-depth retrospective of Michael Moore’s documentary film work. NHdocs is honored by Moore’s participation as he discusses his pictures with a group of veteran, prize-winning filmmakers.