CAMERA AS WITNESS Presents th 18 United Nations Association Film Festival

October 15-25, 2015 Stanford University • Palo Alto East Palo Alto • unaff.org THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION FILM FESTIVAL (UNAFF) CELEBRATES 18 YEARS OF Founder and Executive Director GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARIES WITH 60 FILMS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE THAT Jasmina Bojic WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF THE WORLD. 5 WORLD PREMIERES AND 10 U.S. PREMIERES TO BE SCREENED OCTOBER 15 -25 WITH THE Honorary Committee THEME OF “RUNNING OUT OF TIME.” OVER 50 FILMMAKERS TO BE IN ATTENDANCE THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL. Alec Baldwin Seventy years ago, fifty nations gathered in the historic San Francisco Fairmont Hotel to Peter Coyote sign the UN Charter. During the festivities commemorating this event at the Fairmont, Lolita Davidovich UNAFF presented the first UNAFF Visionary Award to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the eighth William Draper III Secretary-General of the United Nations. Danny Glover Established in 1998 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Daryl Hannah Rights, UNAFF has grown and earned the respect of audiences and filmmakers alike for its fearless independence and integrity and in the process became one of the oldest purely Gale Anne Hurd documentary film festivals in the US. In addition to providing early outlets for films, many Susan Sarandon of which later went on to win major awards and acco- John Savage lades including Academy Awards, UNAFF prides itself in creating a community forum for discovery and dialogue Erika Szanto about different cultures, issues and solutions. Ted Turner become a part of the ida community In pursuing its mission, UNAFF has expanded beyond Barbara Trent screenings by organizing year-round panel discussions, launched programs that Zucchero address children, students, women, seniors and veterans, created a traveling festival which keeps the films alive well beyond their initial festival showings, and opened its Join the IDA Family! doors to documentary film students and researchers. Advisory Board The theme for this year RUNNING OUT OF TIME continues the ongoing celebration of Juliette Feeney-Timsit, Chair IDA Members are made up of thousands of individuals from around the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and focuses on time-sensitive aspects of Adriana Baird world, including fi lmmakers and fans of the documentary genre, who support the Millennium Development Goals. In 2000, all UN member states and twenty-three Priscilla Connelly major international organizations committed to these goals by 2015: To eradicate documentary fi lmmaking and the courageous individuals who create this extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender Bob Filice important art form. If you are not a member and believe that documentaries equality and empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, Mary Granholm combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensure environmental sustainability Dianne Griffin are vital to cultures and societies globally, join now. and develop a global partnership for development. Ronny Hamed In the eleven days UNAFF will present an overview of what was and was not achieved by the MDG, bringing stories from the streets of Afghanistan, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Seth Horvitz India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Nairobi, Nepal, South Africa, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, US, Yemen Roland Hsu and other countries. Other topics include the politics of poaching in Africa; rape in India and across American college Charles Junkerman campuses; drones as a tool of modern warfare; the fastest winter-warming place on earth; the global waste crisis; individuals with Parkinson’s staging a dance performance; art overcoming violence, poverty and isolation in Oakland, Cathy Keys ; the history of Libya; the Greek financial crisis; an inside look at the girls of the Taliban; finding loopholes to Dawn Kwan perform abortions at sea; and a remarkable journey by twelve teens to confront racism and have the conversations Tara Kyle most of us are too afraid to attempt. Linda Lopez-Otero In its commitment to creating spaces where audience members can engage in ongoing dialogue, UNAFF brings eight Mary Jane Marcus FREE panel discussions covering climate change, the impact of social media and arts, the barriers of language and race, immigration and children, hate crimes and LGBT issues, women poverty and inequality, interracial marriage and Betty Meissner tolerance, human trafficking and modern slavery, scientific studies on the effect of meditation on the brain, philan- Suzan Miller thropy and social change, and the passion for producing human rights documentaries. Misha Milojkovic We hope that the variety of film programs and other related events during UNAFF 2015 will present you with a truly Amado Padilla exciting and memorable experience. We thank you all for your attendance, and with your support we hope to con- tinue UNAFF and its programs throughout 2016. John Pearson check out our exclusive Warmest regards, Relja Penezic Laarni von Ruden member benefits and join the Chris Scheerder international documentary Duarte Silva Jasmina Bojic Helen Young association today! Founder and Executive Director UNAFF & UNAFF Traveling Film Festival documentary.org Recipient of the 2014 UNESCO Fellini Medal THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 Sponsored by FACT, Free Admission OPENING NIGHT SCREENINGS FILMS A-Z Aquarius Theatre 430 Emerson Street Palo Alto

6:30 pm Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, Karen Holman

6:45 pm XBOUNDARY (US, 7 min) TOC 7:00 pm EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ’68 (US/Vietnam 18 min) Welcome 1 7:30 pm UNFAIR GAME: THE POLITICS OF POACHING (Swaziland/US/Zambia, 37 min) Opening & Closing Nights AGORA - FROM DEMORACY TO THE MARKET ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH ANTARCTIC EDGE: 70 DEGREES SOUTH 2 8:20 pm DRIVING WITH SELVI (Canada/India, 74 min) DIR: Yorgos Avgeropoulos DIR: Pratibha Parmar DIR: Dena Seidel Films A–Z 3–9 PROD: Yorgos Avgeropoulos, Anastasia Skoubri PROD: Kali8 Productions LLC PROD: Steve Holloway, Xenia Morin, Rick Ludescher Schedule 10–11 The Agora was the heart of Ancient Greece’s city- Alice Walker made history as the first black wom- This is the first time in history that the Long-Term Print Sources 14–15 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 states—a gathering place, an assembly of active an to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her Ecological Research project at Palmer Station has Sponsors 16 citizens, and the city center for political, econom- groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple, which has ever been documented on film—a once-in-a-life- ic, athletic, artistic and spiritual life. In modern been transformed from a novel to a Hollywood time opportunity for viewers to follow prominent Tickets 17 CLOSING NIGHT Greece, the word Agora has lost its original sense movie and latterly to a successful Broadway musi- climate change scientists who push the limits of Special Thanks 18 and has come to denote solely the place and act cal. This universal story of triumph against all odds their research and come to terms with the sac- SCREENINGS of commercial transactions. Greece today con- is not that different from Walker’s own story. The rifices necessary to study and ultimately pre- Venues 19 CERAS, Rm: 101 tends with homelessness, unemployment, pov- film offers a penetrating look at the life and art of pare for global climate change. The film follows 520 Galvez Mall, Stanford erty, conflicts and the rise of the extreme right. an artist, a self-confessed renegade and human a renowned team of scientists studying climate (Greece, 117 min) rights activist. (US, 84 min) change in the fastest winter-warming place in 1:00 pm A NEW PATH (India, 28 min) TUE OCT 20 7:00 PM SU-ENCINA HALL SAT OCT 24 7:20 PM SU-CERAS the world. (US, 72 min) 2:40 pm THE SAME HEART (Kenya/India/US, 67 minutes) SUN OCT 25 4:55 PM SU-CERAS

3:50 pm WORSE THAN POOP! (US, 7 min)

4:00 pm DAMNATION (US, 52 min)

4:55 pm ANTARCTIC EDGE: 70 DEGREES SOUTH (US, 72 min)

6:15 pm PANEL “CLIMATE COUNTDOWN” (FREE ADMISSION) AUSTRALIA’S MARINE PROTECTED AREAS: BURDEN OF PEACE CAPTURING GRACE THE SEA & ME DIR: Joey Boink DIR/PROD: Dave Iverson DIR: James Sherwood, Danielle Ryan PROD: Bart Voorsluis, Annemiek Munneke 7:00 pm JANE’S JOURNEY (Germany/Tanzania/UK, 111 minutes) PROD: Bluebottle Films We follow individuals with Parkinson’s as they 9:00 pm Awards Ceremony Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Clau- prepare to stage a first ever dance performance, Journey across a number of Australia’s world- dia Paz y Paz starts a frontal attack against cor- under the tutelage of two long-time dancers at class marine parks to learn about how they sup- ruption and organized crime. She arrests former the Mark Morris Dance Group. A story about de- port species like the highly priced and valued dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of geno- termination, adversity, the transformative power CLOSING NIGHT PARTY cide. Her determination encounters strong re- Sponsored by Garden Court Hotel, $50 (includes Closing Night Screenings & Awards) coral trout and lobsters, the graceful manta rays of art, the strength of the human spirit and a re- and the placid grey nurse shark. But, marine sistance from powerful elites. Will she be able to markable community of dancers who came to- Garden Court Hotel parks support more than life just in the sea. First- win this battle? A story of a woman who wants gether to rediscover the meaning of grace. (US, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 hand accounts of scientists, researchers, divers, to change her country and therefore brings im- 61 min) mense sacrifices both professionally and in her 9:30 pm Closing Night Party tourist operators and fishermen who have a story FRI OCT 23 8:30 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL to share about the veranda of one of the world’s personal life. (Guatemala/Netherlands, 75 min) Music by Potential Jazz Ensemble greatest islands. (Australia, 28 min) WED OCT 21 4:30 PM SU-ENCINA HALL SAT OCT 17 11:40 AM PA-CUBBERLEY 3 CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS DAMNATION DAVID & ME F R E E FAR FROM HOME FINDING HILLYWOOD DIR: Susan Gray DIR: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel DIR: Ray Klonsky, Marc Lamy DIR/PROD: David Collier, Suzanne LaFetra DIR: Galen Knowles DIR: Leah Warshawski, Christopher Towey PROD: Linda Matchan PROD: Matt Stoecker, Travis Rummel PROD: Philip Hessler PROD: Charles Todd Soliday, Leah Warshawski, David McCallum is a convicted murderer from What is it like to grow up in one of the nation’s Christopher Towey Using circus arts as a means of self-expression This film odyssey across America explores the sea the mean streets of Brooklyn who has spent most violent cities? Capturing the raw beauty The story of Brolin Mawejje—Ugandan immi- and cultural exchange, the two circuses, Artcirq change in our national attitude from pride in big twenty-nine years in prison. Ray Klonsky is a mid- and powerful grace of a dance company for at- grant, pre-med student, and Africa’s first hopeful A unique and endearing phenomenon film in the Canadian Arctic and Kalabante in West Af- dams as engineering wonders to the growing dle-class, Jewish-Italian kid from Toronto. When risk youth, F R E E journeys behind the curtain to Olympic snowboarder. Emigrating to Boston at about the very beginning of Rwanda’s film in- rica, give youth in two of the world’s most chal- awareness that our own future is bound to the life fate crossed their paths however, a friendship spotlight the intimate stories of five teenagers in age eleven, Brolin escaped bullying and ostra- dustry and the pioneers who bring local films to lenged communities the tools to travel beyond and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved was born that changed both of their lives forever. Oakland, California. This uplifting feature-length cism at his school by joining an after-school ski rural communities on a giant inflatable movie their borders and succeed. The film is a beauti- beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go The unlikely bond between David and Ray turns documentary showcases art’s ability to transform and snowboard program. There, he discovered a screen. For most Rwandans, this is the first time ful performance piece, a portal into two remote mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, this gut-wrenching wrongful conviction story violence, poverty and isolation. Their journey in new world where color and background did not they have seen a film, let alone one in their local cultures, and an inspiring story of joy and heart- rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other into a transformative film about going the dis- the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company re- matter. (Argentina/Canada/Italy/Uganda/US, language, “Kinyarwanda.” Thousands show up to break with universal relevance. (Canada/Guinea/ wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning tance for what you believe. (Canada/US, 79 min) veals how collaborative art can be a foundation 75 min) watch films in stadiums next to mass graves and US, 70 min) grounds after decades without access. (US, 52 min) WED OCT 21 7:00 PM SU-ENCINA HALL for personal discovery. (US, 73 min) FRI OCT 16 4:15 PM PA-CUBBERLEY locations where horrible crimes took place dur- SAT OCT 17 1:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY SUN OCT 25 4:00 PM SU-CERAS SAT OCT 17 2:20 PM PA-CUBBERLEY ing the genocide. (Rwanda/US, 58 min) MON OCT 19 7:40 PM SF-NINTH STREET

DIRTY WARS (DIS)HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES DOROTHEA LANGE: FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM FROM BILLIONS TO NONE: THE PASSENGER GARBAGE OR RESOURCE? A DOMINICAN DIR: Richard Rowley DIR: Yael Melamede GRAB A HUNK OF LIGHTNING DIR: Marc Levin PIGEON’S FLIGHT TO EXTINCTION REPUBLIC EXPERIENCE PROD: Brenda Coughlin, Anthony Arnove, Jer- PROD: Yael Melamede, Dan Ariely DIR: Dyanna Taylor PROD: Marc Levin, Mike Marangu, Guy Logan DIR: David Mrazek DIR: Natasha Despotovic emy Scahill PROD: Dyanna Taylor, Roberta Grossman PROD: David Mrazek, Joel Greenberg It’s human nature to lie; we all do it! From scandal- He’s ‘Freeway’ Rick Ross, whose name has been The Dominican Republic has more than 340 This Academy nominated film follows investiga- ous headlines to little white lies, this documen- Her celebrated photograph The Migrant Mother inextricably linked to the CIA-Contra-Cocaine con- A mostly forgotten story of how the passen- open-air landfills without any type of manage- tive reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the inter- tary feature film explores the human tendency to is one of the most recognized and arresting im- nection. The film exposes how the infiltration of ger pigeon, the most abundant bird species in ment or control, which have become highly- national bestseller Blackwater, into the heart of be dishonest and the complex impact dishonesty ages in the world, a haunting portrait that came crack cocaine destroyed inner-city neighborhoods North America for thousands of years, became concentrated areas of air and water pollution. America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Ye- has on our lives and everyday society. Inspired by to represent the suffering of America’s Great De- across the country. At the center of it all is the rise, extinct by human hands in a geologic heartbeat. They are an unseen danger for every Dominican. men, Somalia and beyond. What begins as a re- the work of behavioral economist, Dan Ariely, the pression. Yet few know the story, struggles and fall and redemption of Freeway Rick Ross, a street It retells the remarkable story of the passen- Fortunately, the country is witnessing cultural port into a US night raid gone terribly wrong in film interweaves personal stories, expert opinions, profound body of work of the woman who cre- hustler who became the King of Crack, and jour- ger pigeon and explores its striking relevance to changes which are creating initiatives that con- remote Afghanistan quickly turns into a global behavioral experiments and archival footage to re- ated the portrait: Dorothea Lange. The film ex- nalist Gary Webb, who broke the story of the CIA’s conservation challenges today, and plans for its vert this “problem” into an opportunity for de- investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint veal how and why people lie. (US, 90 min) plores the life and vision of the woman behind complicity in the drug war. (US, 103 min) possible revival. (US, 57 min) velopment. The film depicts how recycling has Special Operations Command. (Afghanistan/Iraq/ FRI OCT 16 7:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY the camera, whose images document five turbu- FRI OCT 16 5:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY SUN OCT 18 2:45 PM PA-CUBBERLEY become an important economic opportunity for Somalia/Yemen, 86 min) lent decades of American history. (US, 108 min) Dominicans. (Dominican Republic/US, 17 min) SAT OCT 17 9:30 PM PA-CUBBERLEY SAT OCT 24 9:00 PM SU-CERAS SUN OCT 18 1:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

DRIVING WITH SELVI DRONE EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ‘68 THE GIRLS OF THE TALIBAN GOOD MUSLIM GIRLS HAVANA CURVEBALL DIR/PROD: Elisa Paloschi DIR: Tonje Hessen Schei DIR: Douglas Sloan DIR: Najibullah Quraishi DIR: Marilyn Agrelo DIR/PROD: Ken Schneider, Marcia Jarmel PROD: Lars Løge PROD: Douglas Sloan PROD: Jamie Doran PROD: Amy Sewell Selvi, like so many girls living within India’s patri- Mica is a classic teen. Enthusiastic. Idealistic. archal culture, is forced to marry at a young age, The film follows people who live under drones in “Still photographs are the most powerful weap- With a new wave of privately run religious In an unidentified Iraqi city, filmmaker met two Dreaming baseball. At thirteen, he is studying of only to find herself in a violent and abusive mar- Pakistan and the drone pilots who struggle with on in the world. People believe them; but photo- schools being opened across Afghanistan, there young women who looked strikingly different his Bar Mitzvah, the Jewish coming of age ritual. riage. One day in deep despair, she chooses to the new warfare. Covering diverse ground includ- graphs do lie, even without manipulation.” (Eddie is a growing feeling among women’s rights from other girls at their university. In a sea of fe- An earnest kid, he takes to heart his Rabbi’s escape, going to a highway with the intention of ing the recruitment of young pilots at gaming Adams) In 1968, photojournalist Eddie Adams groups that basic rights and education for girls male students wearing floor length skirts and requirement to help ‘heal the world.’ Imagin- throwing herself under the wheels of a bus. In- conventions, the moral stance of engineers be- captured the most iconic image of the Vietnam are again under threat. The founders say the goal hijabs, they stood out with Western-style outfits ing himself savior of sorts, he launches a grand stead she gets on the bus, choosing to live, and hind the technology, the world leaders giving the War: a point blank execution of a Vietcong pris- of the madrasa is to help young women achieve and uncovered heads. These girls (whose identi- plan to send baseballs to Cuba, a country with a goes on to become South India’s first female taxi “green light” to engage in the biggest targeted oner on a Saigon street. Film explores the un- their full potential by understanding the history ties are not disclosed) discuss the choices they’ve mysterious pull. He knows only that Cubans love driver. This is the ten year journey of a charm- killing program in history, and the people willing told story behind this image and raises pertinent and basic teachings of Islam. The girls are taught made and the repercussions they face daily. For baseball and have few resources, and that they ing and courageous young woman who defies to stand up against the violations of civil liberties questions regarding our lack of visual literacy by male teachers, who they are forbidden from them, the refusal to wear the hijab is a matter of saved his grandpa’s life. (Cuba/US, 60 min) expectations and creates a new life. (Canada/In- and fight for transparency, accountability and jus- and the power of images to affect human rights meeting face-to-face, and full hijab must be human rights and they’re willing to sacrifice ev- THU OCT 22 5:45 PM EPA-EASTSIDE THEATER dia, 74 min) tice. (Norway/Pakistan, 78 min) agendas. (US/Vietnam, 18 min) worn. (Afghanistan/UK, 48 min) erything to demonstrate this. (Iraq/US, 7 min) THU OCT 15 8:20 PM PA-AQUARIUS SAT OCT 17 5:50 PM PA-CUBBERLEY THU OCT 15 7:00 PM PA-AQUARIUS SAT OCT 17 7:20 PM PA-CUBBERLEY MON OCT 19 7:00 PM SF-NINTH STREET 4 5 HOTEL 22 I AM ABLE I’M NOT RACIST… AM I? LAND GRABBING LET THE FIRE BURN LIBYA: AN IMPOSSIBLE NATION-STATE? DIR/PROD: Elizabeth Lo DIR/PROD: Isaac Seigel-Boettner, Jacob DIR: Catherine Wigginton Greene DIR/PROD: Kurt Langbein DIR: Jason Osder DIR: Anne Poiret Seigel-Boettner PROD: Andre Robert Lee PROD: Magneto Presse Each night in Silicon Valley, a public bus trans- Demand for land has soared as investors look for On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud between the forms into an unofficial shelter for the homeless. After surviving the genocide in Rwanda, Freder- What if this next generation could transcend places to grow food for export, grow crops for city of Philadelphia and controversial radical ur- For forty-two years, Colonel Gaddafi ruled alone The Line 22 is the only bus that runs twenty- ick Ndabaramiye was the victim of a brutal retri- racism? We asked twelve teenagers from New biofuels or simply buy up land for profit. This film ban group MOVE came to a deadly climax. Po- over Libya. The nation and the state became four hours in Silicon Valley. During the day, it is bution attack. Left for dead in the jungle, he was York City to come together for one school year gives an inside look into the world of investors lice dropped military-grade explosives onto a inextricably identified with this one man whose a regular city bus. But by night, it transforms. found by two girls who took him to the hospital. to talk about race and privilege. The film is part in the international agro-business and how the MOVE-occupied rowhouse, resulting in the tragic image embodied Libya to the rest of the world. Commonly referred to as “Hotel 22,” the bus has His miraculous survival was just the beginning. of a larger initiative to create a multimedia plat- politics of the European Union is involved. Land deaths of eleven people (including five children) The Arab Springs swept away his regime after become a mobile testament to the challenges of Frederick slowly learned to live again, re-honing form to get young people, their teachers and grabbing doesn’t only happen in Asia and Africa, and the destruction of sixty-one homes. It was eight months of conflict in 2011. With Gaddafi’s an increasingly unaffordable landscape. For over his motor skills through painting. After years of their families talking—and doing something— but also in Europe’s breadbasket Romania. The only later discovered that authorities decided to death the world seemed to lose all interest in a decade, people have been using the overnight recovery, uses his story to empower others going about structural systemic racism. Once they push film takes a closer look into Europe and also chal- “...let the fire burn.” (US, 95 min) Libya. Four years later and hope has given way bus as an alternative to sleeping on the streets. through similar struggles. (Rwanda/US, 13 min) through naivete, guilt and tears, what they learn lenges investors and their practices. (Ethiopia/ FRI OCT 16 9:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY to chaos. With Libya once again sinking into war, (US, 9 min) WED OCT 21 4:15 PM SU-ENCINA HALL may change us all. (US, 90 min) Romania/Saudi Arabia/US, 94 min) is any kind of coexistence still possible? (France/ TUE OCT 20 4:00 PM SU-ENCINA HALL THU OCT 22 3:25 PM EPA-EASTSIDE THEATER SUN OCT 18 5:35 PM PA-CUBBERLEY Libya, 57 min) SAT OCT 17 8:20 PM PA-CUBBERLEY

INDIA’S DAUGHTER IT HAPPENED HERE MANISLAM - ISLAM AND MASCULINITY MY DAD’S A ROCKER A NEW PATH DIR: Leslee Udwin DIR: Jacob Kornbluth DIR: Lisa F. Jackson DIR: Nefise Özkal Lorentzen DIR/PROD: Zuxin Hou DIR/PROD: Gregory Walsh PROD: Assassin Films Ltd. PROD: Jen Chaiken, Sebastian Dungan PROD: Marjorie Schwartz Nielsen PROD: Jørgen Lorentzen This film examines the burdens of manhood with- This film captures Chinese rock and roll and the A chance opportunity to attend a nonprofit pri- The powerful story of the short life and the 2012 The divide between rich and poor is growing in Through the intimate portraits of five student in Islamic cultures. The main characters, bravely first generation Chinese rockers. The director’s vate school led Mukesh to find his voice as a brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus of an exception- the . In this timely and entertain- survivors, film exposes the alarming pervasive- and frankly, share deeply personal memories and father, 60-year-old Hou is one of the first gen- community organizer and citizen journalist. Ev- ally inspiring young woman who later died from ing documentary, noted economic policy expert ness of sexual assault on college campuses, the experiences in their effort to highlight and ques- eration Chinese rockers back in 80s. After being ery day he rides his scooter from village to village her injuries. The rape and death of the 23-year- Robert Reich takes on the enormous question of institutional cover-ups and the failure to protect tion the role of men in contemporary Islam. The sidelined for three years due to a stroke, he starts documenting negligence and corruption in his old medical student sparked unprecedented pro- what has been happening to our economy. He students, and follows their fight for accountabil- film follows the director’s voyage into understand- to compose again and dedicated a new rock region’s school system, convinced that a proper tests throughout India and led to the first glim- distills the story through the lens of widening ity and change on campus and in federal court. ing masculinities from the patriarchal tradition to song to his peers. The rock song he composes education for every child is the key to transform- mers of a change of mindset. The film examines income inequality—currently at historic highs— In raw and intimate interviews, the students de- pursue of the freedom of men, democracy and will be dedicated to his youth and his illness. ing his community for the better. (India, 28 min) the society and values which spawn such violent and and explores what effects this increasing scribe surviving sexual assault only to be met equality, violence and oppression, emotionality (China, 29 min) SUN OCT 25 1:00 PM SU-CERAS acts, and makes an optimistic and impassioned gap has not only on our economy but our de- with apathy, disbelief, blame and retaliation from and male sexuality. (Bangladesh/Indonesia/Ku- FRI OCT 23 8:00 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL plea for change. (India/UK, 62 min) mocracy itself. (US, 91 min) the authorities when they tried to report the wait/Norway/Pakistan/Turkey, 62 min) SAT OCT 24 5:00 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL TUE OCT 20 4:10 PM SU-ENCINA HALL crime. (US, 76 min) SAT OCT 24 6:10 PM SU-CERAS SAT OCT 24 2:40 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL

JANE’S JOURNEY KNEE DEEP A KNOCK ON MY DOOR NORMA’S STORY OIL & WATER OMO CHILD: THE RIVER AND THE BUSH DIR: Lorenz Knauer DIR/PROD: Aly Nicklas DIR: David Chai DIR/PROD:Alex Hawley DIR: Francine Strickwerda, Laurel Spellman Smith DIR: John Rowe PROD: Philipp Schall PROD: Stir It Up Productions LLC PROD: John Rowe, Tyler Rowe It would be hard to name anyone who has had In September 2013, catastrophic floods struck Escaping a life of sadness and adversity, a young Norma’s Story is a true tale of change. It docu- more of an impact in the realm of animal re- Colorado’s Front Range. President Obama de- Korean boy moves to America and learns that ments the effects of climate change on the envi- The true story of two boys coming of age as they For many generations people in the Omo Val- search and wildlife conservation than Jane clared a state of emergency and released the even though life is full of hard knocks, the time ronment, culture and food security of the Vuntut each confront one of the world’s worst toxic di- ley in Southwest Ethiopia believed some chil- Goodall, whose forty-five year study of wild National Guard and FEMA. Over 19,000 homes does come when it’s safe to answer the door. A Gwitchin people of the Northern Yukon as seen sasters. Hugo and David were born on opposite dren are cursed and that these ‘cursed’ children chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane’s were damaged, filled with mud and debris. Be- Knock on My Door chronicles the life of the di- through the eyes of Norma Kassi. (Canada, 6 min) ends of the oil pipeline. Hugo comes to America bring disease, drought and death to the tribe. Journey, we travel with her across several conti- fore the rain stopped, a small group of friends rector, David Chai’s father who as a courageous SAT OCT 17 11:00 AM PA-CUBBERLEY to fight for the survival of his Cofan tribe in the Ec- The curse is called ‘mingi’ and mingi children nents, from her childhood home in England, to started shoveling and before long were running teenager emigrates to the United States where uadorian Amazon, while David goes to Ecuador are killed. Lale Labuko, a young educated man the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she a large scale disaster response effort, despite lit- he achieves extraordinary success until a buried to launch the world’s first company to certify oil from the Kara was fifteen years old when he saw began her groundbreaking research and where tle experience in disaster relief or volunteer orga- past demands a reckoning. (South Korea/ as “fair trade.” Their journeys lead them to explore a child in his village killed and also learned that she still returns every year to enjoy the company nizations. (US, 18 min) US, 10 min) what could be a more just future, not just for the he had two older sisters he never knew who had of the chimpanzees that made her famous. SAT OCT 17 11:15 AM PA-CUBBERLEY THU OCT 22 3:15PM EPA-EASTSIDE THEATER Cofan, but for all people around the world born been killed. He decided one day he would stop (Germany/Tanzania/UK, 111 min) with oil beneath their feet. (Ecuador/US, 55 min) this horrific practice. (Ethiopia/US, 90 min) SUN OCT 25 7:00 PM SU-CERAS SUN OCT 18 7:45 PM PA-CUBBERLEY FRI OCT 23 5:30 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL 6 7 PIRATES AND SLAVES POET AGAINST PREJUDICE RACING TO ZERO: THE TROUBLE WITH BREAD UNFAIR GAME: THE POLITICS OF POACHING VALENTINE ROAD DIR/PROD: Environmental Justice Foundation DIR: Faiza Almontaser IN PURSUIT OF ZERO WASTE DIR: Maggie Beidelman DIR/PROD: John Antonelli DIR: Marta Cunningham PROD: Albert Maysles, Elizabeth Hummer DIR: Christopher Beaver PROD: Sasha Alpert, Marta Cunningham, How overfishing and pirate fishing in Thailand PROD: Diana Fuller A gluten intolerant filmmaker journeys from Can wildlife conservation efforts go too far? Is Eddie Schmidt fuels human trafficking and the plundering of Faiza Almontaser is a 17-year-old senior attend- farm to mill to table on a quest for answers about execution ever a just punishment for poaching our oceans. (Thailand/UK, 9 min) ing the Brooklyn International High School. In Garbage, air pollution, disappearing natural re- gluten intolerance and a hunt for the perfect animals? Through the inspiring stories of two ac- In 2008, eighth-grader Brandon McInerney shot FRI OCT 16 4:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY 2006 Faiza immigrated with her family to Brook- sources, destroyed oceans — the stakes are higher loaf, one she can eat without getting sick. Along tivists, this feature-length documentary explores classmate Larry King at point blank range. When lyn, NY from a small farming town in Yemen. than ever. Is there anything we, individually, can the way, she makes some unexpected discover- the disastrous results when wildlife takes prior- Larry died two days later, his murder shocked the Raised as a religious Muslim, she often struggles still do about it? This film examines our society’s ies about crucial changes to the wheat itself and ity over indigenous people’s land rights, human nation. Looking beyond all the copious news cov- to reconcile her cultural background with the re- garbage practices in terms of consumption, prepa- how it is processed and fermented. Let’s just say rights, and their very survival. These two marked- erage of this tragic event film tells the story of two alities she meets as a high school student in one ration, use and production, and discovers some that bread as you know it, is not what you think. ly different African countries have taken radically victims: the deceased and the murderer. With keen of New York City’s most socially dynamic neigh- amazing solutions in San Francisco, which is suc- (US, 27 min) different approaches to their one shared, grim insight, the film connects the human wreckage of borhoods. She faced vicious bullying because of cessfully taking the necessary steps to reach zero FRI OCT 23 7:30 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL reality. (Swaziland/US/Zambia, 37 min) Larry’s and Brandon’s troubled lives-both physi- her Islamic identity. (US/Yemen, 27 min) waste. Three years ago the mayor of San Francisco THU OCT 15 7:30 PM PA-AQUARIUS cally abused, both from broken homes, and both THU OCT 22 6:30 PM SU-CERAS pledged to achieve zero waste by 2020. (US, 56 min) searching for a sense of belonging. (US, 89 min) SUN OCT 18 1:30 PM PA-CUBBERLEY THU OCT 22 9:15 PM SU-CERAS

THE SAME HEART SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND THE THE SOUND MAN VESSEL WHEN ELEPHANTS FIGHT WHERE SHOULD THE BIRDS FLY DIR: Leonard Morris, Georgia Morris NEW SOUTH AFRICA DIR: Chip Duncan DIR: Diana Whitten DIR/PROD: Michael Ramsdell DIR: Fida Qishta PROD: Leonard Morris, Georgia Morris, Petra Lent DIR/PROD: Abby Ginzberg PROD: Diana Whitten, Mitchell Block PROD: Brian Drolet Abdul learned his craft on the job at Nairobi’s The Democratic Republic of Congo has been With vivid and often beautiful footage of hard Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Tutu inspire the Camerapix production company where he’s Rebecca Gomperts, horrified by the realities created called a geological scandal due to its mineral The story of two young women, survivors of Is- places to grow up in, shot in eleven countries, world as leaders of a non-violent revolution. Yet been employed for more than thirty-five years. by anti-abortion law around the world, felt com- rich soil. Unfortunately, those minerals, neces- rael’s Operation Cast Lead. Mona Samouni, now film follows the stark effects of inequality on the without the courage and commitment of people While working with acclaimed photojournal- pelled to challenge this. Her method: to provide sary to sustain today’s technology, are funding thirteen years old and the filmmaker, Fida Qishta, world’s children, with a heartening promise. The like Albie Sachs, apartheid might still rule South ist Mohamed Amin and others, Abdul recorded abortions on a ship in offshore waters. Her project, the deadliest war since WWII. Narrated by Gold- now twenty-nine. They represent the spirit and film gathers a growing number of global econo- Africa today. Soft Vengeance paints a portrait of the sounds of revolution, civil war, genocide and Women on Waves, begins as flawed spectacle, a en Globe award winner, Robin Wright, film fol- future of Palestinians. It reveals the strength and mists, joining their voices with moral leaders of this white, Jewish, South African lawyer and later famine throughout East Africa. Abdul has wit- media frenzy, faced with governmental, religious, lows the fight for minerals in Congo which has hope, the humanity and humor that flourishes the world, to propose an extremely small finan- Constitutional Court judge who has dedicated nessed and provides gripping detail about the and military blockades. We witness the creation of brought poverty, war and corruption to the Con- among the people of Gaza. Few films document cial transaction tax, the ‘Robin Hood Tax,’ to place his life to fighting for reconciliation, justice and civil war in Sudan, the genocide in Rwanda, revo- an underground network of activists working at the golese while corporations, nations and armed so powerfully and personally the impact of mod- the needs of children at the heart of the global equality. (South Africa/US, 84 min) lution in Somalia and Ethiopia and the current edge of global reproductive rights, who trust wom- groups have made billions. (Bermuda/Congo/ ern warfare and sanctions on a civilian popula- financial system. (India/Kenya/US, 67 min) WED OCT 21 8:30 PM SU-ENCINA HALL tribal conflicts in Kenya. (Ethiopia/Kenya/Rwan- en to handle abortion themselves. (Ireland/Moroc- US, 90 min) tion. (Palestinian Territories/US, 64 min) SUN OCT 25 2:40 PM SU-CERAS da/Somalia/Sudan/US, 27 min) co/Poland/Portugal/Spain/US, 90 min) SUN OCT 18 3:55 PM PA-CUBBERLEY SAT OCT 17 4:40 PM PA-CUBBERLEY MON OCT 19 7:10 PM SF-NINTH STREET SAT OCT 24 1:00 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL

STINK! TASHI AND THE MONK THANK YOU FOR PLAYING WORSE THAN POOP! XBOUNDARY YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE DIR/PROD: Jon J. Whelan DIR: Andrew Hinton, Johnny Burke DIR/PROD: David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall DIR/PROD: Vanessa Warheit DIR: Ryan Peterson DIR: Curt Fissel PROD: Andrew Hinton PROD: Ryan Peterson, Travis Rummel PROD: Ellen Friedland A first-person story about one father’s absurd When one-year-old Joel is diagnosed with termi- Who says carbon dioxide pollution can’t be fun- journey to find out what kinds of chemicals are Buddhist monk Lobsang was trained under the nal cancer, his father Ryan begins working on an ny? In this delightful animated film, an 8-year- Many large-scale open-pit mines are proposed This film documents a project to preserve yellow hidden in a pair of his kid’s pajamas. But instead guidance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Eight unusual and poetic video game to honor Joel’s old climate scientist and the Green Ninja take on the Canadian side of rivers that flow into Alas- stars that were painted during the Holocaust in of getting a straight answer, director Jon Whelan years ago he left behind a life as a spiritual teacher life. This film is a thought-provoking testimony to on a fleet of pooping cars to save the world. The ka, where salmon fishing and tourism are worth World War II on a synagogue exterior wall in Nor- stumbles on an even bigger issue in America, in the US to create a unique community in the the empathetic power of art, examining how we ‘pooping cars’ movie examines the science be- $2 billion annually. Meanwhile, the August 4, mandy, France to terrorize the Jewish commu- which is that some products on our store shelves foothills of the Himalayas which rescues orphaned process grief through technology in the twenty- hind climate change, the role that cars play in 2014 Tailings dam failure at the Mt. Polley Mine, nity. While the intent of the project was to serve are not safe—by design. Stink! takes you on a and neglected children. A troubled 5-year-old first century and the implications of document- CO2 pollution, and the promise of a poop-free just south of the transboundary region, validates as a testament to that terrible chapter of history madcap journey from the retailer to the labora- girl joins the community and stretches the limits ing profound human experiences in a new artis- future. (US, 7 min) the fears of many who view mining of this type and a reminder of the dangers of intolerance, the tory, through corporate boardrooms, down back of its capacity for healing. Can the community’s tic medium: the video game. (US, 81 min) SUN OCT 25 3:50 PM SU-CERAS as unsafe and incongruous with healthy salmon recent, tragic increase in anti-Semitism gives this alleys and into the halls of Congress. (US, 91 min) love and compassion transform Tashi’s alienation FRI OCT 23 4:00 PM SU-MEDICAL SCHOOL rivers. (US, 7 min) story continuing significance. (France/US, 28 min) SUN OCT 18 8:50 PM PA-CUBBERLEY and tantrums into a capacity to make her first real THU OCT 15 6:45 PM PA-AQUARIUS SAT OCT 17 4:00 PM PA-CUBBERLEY friend? (Bhutan/India/Nepal/Tibet, 40 min) THU OCT 22 7:00 PM SU-CERAS 8 9 SCHEDULE THURSDAY 10.15 FRIDAY 10.16 SATURDAY 10.17 SUNDAY 10.18 MONDAY 10.19 TUESDAY 10.20 Palo Alto, Aquarius Theatre Palo Alto, Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, Cubberley Community Center, San Francisco, Ninth Street Independent Film Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for 430 Emerson Street 4000 Middlefield Road 4000 Middlefield Road 4000 Middlefield Road Center, 145 Ninth Street International Studies, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street

Session 1 (FREE Admission) Session 2 Session 4 (UNAFF & Kids Program FREE Session 8 Session 11 Session 12 6:30 PM Opening words by Mayor of Palo Alto, 4:00 PM PIRATES AND SLAVES Admission; live jazz by high school 1:00 PM GARBAGE OR RESOURCE? A 6:30 PM Reception with the filmmakers 4:00 PM HOTEL 22 (US, 9 min) Karen Holman (Thailand/UK, 9 min) combo, The Blues By Five) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXPERIENCE 7:00 PM GOOD MUSLIM GIRLS (Iraq/US, 7 min) 4:10 PM INEQUALITY FOR ALL (US, 91 min) 6:45 PM XBOUNDARY (US, 7 min) 4:15 PM FAR FROM HOME (Argentina/Canada/ 11:00 AM NORMA’S STORY (Canada, 6 min) (Dominican Republic/US, 17 min) 7:10 PM THE SOUND MAN (Ethiopia/Kenya/ 7:00 PM EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ’68 Italy/Uganda/US, 75 min) 11:15 AM KNEE DEEP (US, 18 min) 1:30 PM RACING TO ZERO: IN PURSUIT OF ZERO Somalia/Sudan/Rwanda/US, 27 min) 5:45 PM Panel “The Perils of Inequality” (US/Vietnam 18 min) 5:40 PM FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM 11:40 AM AUSTRALIA’S MARINE PROTECTED WASTE (US, 56 min) 7:40 PM FINDING HILLYWOOD (FREE Admission) 7:30 PM UNFAIR GAME: THE POLITICS OF (US, 103 min) AREAS: THE SEA & ME (Australia, 28 min) 2:45 PM FROM BILLIONS TO NONE: THE (Rwanda/US, 58 min) POACHING PASSENGER PIGEON’S FLIGHT TO Session 13 (Swaziland/US/Zambia, 37 min) Session 3 Session 5 EXTINCTION (US, 57 min) 8:45 PM Panel “Funding Documentaries and Non- 6:30 PM Reception with the filmmakers 8:20 PM DRIVING WITH SELVI 7:40 PM (DIS) HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT 1:00 PM CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS Profit Organizations Dealing with Social 7:00 PM AGORA - FROM DEMOCRACY TO THE (Canada/India, 74 min) LIES (US, 90 min) (Canada/Guinea/US 70min) Session 9 Change” (FREE Admission) MARKET (Greece, 117 min) 9:40PM LET THE FIRE BURN (US, 95 min) 2:20 PM FREE (US, 73 min) 3:55 PM WHEN ELEPHANTS FIGHT (Bermuda/Congo/US, 90 min) Session 6 5:35 PM LAND GRABBING (Ethiopia/Romania/ 4:00 PM YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE Saudi Arabia/US, 94 min) (France/US 28 min) 4:40 PM WHERE SHOULD THE BIRDS FLY Session 10 (Palestinian Territories/US 64 min) 7:45 PM OIL AND WATER (Ecuador/US, 55 min) 5:50 PM DRONE (Norway/Pakistan 78 min) 8:50 PM STINK! (US, 91 min)

Session 7 7:20 PM THE GIRLS OF THE TALIBAN (Afghanistan/UK 48 min) 8:20 PM LIBYA: AN IMPOSSIBLE NATION-STATE? (France/Libya 57 min) 9:30 PM DIRTY WARS (Afghanistan/Iraq/Somalia/ Yemen 86 min) WEDNESDAY 10.21 THURSDAY 10.22 FRIDAY 10.23 SATURDAY 10.24 SUNDAY 10.25 Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for East Palo Alto, Eastside College Preparatory Stanford University, Stanford Medical School Stanford University, Stanford Medical School Stanford University, School of Education, CERAS International Studies, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street School, Eastside Theater 1041 Myrtle Street (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 291 Campus Drive, (Li Ka Shing Center Building) 291 Campus Drive, Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall Room LK130 Room LK130 Session 14 Session 16 (UNAFF in Schools FREE for Session 23 4:15 PM I AM ABLE (Rwanda/US 13 min) Students and Teachers) Session 18 Session 20 1:00 PM A NEW PATH (India, 28 min) 4:30 PM BURDEN OF PEACE 3:15 PM A KNOCK ON MY DOOR 4:00 PM THANK YOU FOR PLAYING (US, 81 min) 1:00 PM VESSEL (Ireland/Morocco/Poland/ 2:40 PM THE SAME HEART (Guatemala/ Netherlands 75 min) (South Korea/US, 10 min) 5:30 PM OMO CHILD: THE RIVER AND THE BUSH Portugal/Spain/US, 90 min) (Kenya/India/US, 67 minutes) 3:25 PM I’M NOT RACIST… AM I? (US, 90 min) (Ethiopia/US, 90 min) 2:40 PM IT HAPPENED HERE (US, 76 min) 5:45 PM Panel “The Justice of Reconcilation” Session 24 (FREE Admission) 4:55 PM Panel “The Endurance of Racism” Session 19 4:00 PM Panel “The Elimination of Violence against 3:50 PM WORSE THAN POOP! (US, 7 min) (FREE Admission) 7:00 PM Reception with the filmmakers Women” (FREE Admission) 4:00 PM DAMNATION (US, 52 min) Session 15 7:30 PM THE TROUBLE WITH BREAD (US, 27 min) 4:55 PM ANTARCTIC EDGE: 70 DEGREES SOUTH 6:30 PM Reception with the filmmakers 5:45 PM HAVANA CURVEBALL (Cuba/US, 60min) 8:00 PM MY DAD’S A ROCKER (China, 29 min) Session 21 (US, 72 min) 7:00 PM DAVID & ME (Canada/US, 79 min) 8:30 PM CAPTURING GRACE (US, 61 min) 5:00 PM INDIA’S DAUGHTER (India/UK, 62 min) 8:30 PM SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND Session17 6:15 PM Panel ”Climate Countdown” THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA Stanford University, School of Education, CERAS 9:30 PM Panel “The Quest for Health” Session 22 (FREE Admission) (South Africa/US, 84 min) Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall (FREE Admission) Stanford University, School of Education, CERAS Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall Session 25 6:30 PM POET AGAINST PREJUDICE 7:00 PM JANE’S JOURNEY (US/Yemen, 27 min) 6:10 PM MANISLAM - ISLAM AND MASCULINITY (Germany/Tanzania/UK, 111 minutes) 7:00 PM TASHI AND THE MONK (Bangladesh/Indonesia/Kuwait/Norway/ (Bhutan/India/Nepal/Tibet, 40 min) Pakistan/Turkey, 62 min) 9:00 PM Awards Ceremony 7:20 PM ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH 9:30 PM Closing Night Party 7:45 PM Panel “Acceptance vs.Bullying” (US, 84 min) Music by Potential Jazz Ensemble (FREE Admission) 9:00 PM DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF Sponsored by Garden Court Hotel LIGHTNING (US, 108 min) 9:15 PM VALENTINE ROAD (US, 89 min)

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10 11 UNA MIDPENINSULA UNA Midpeninsula Chapter serves as a link PANELS between the community and the United Nations by promoting awareness of world issues and the UN global agenda through film screenings, book club, partnerships, public forums, newsletters, Web site and FREE ADMISSION Information Center.

FUNDING DOCUMENTARIES AND NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS DEALING WITH SOCIAL CHANGE Our volunteer-run store, a treasure trove of Monday October 19 at 8:45 PM international gift items, supports fair trade San Francisco: Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street for local craftsmen all over the world.

THE PERILS OF INEQUALITY UNA MIDPENINSULA GIFT STORE AND INFORMATION CENTER Tuesday October 20 at 5:40 PM Stanford University: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street 552 Emerson Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 650 326 3170 • www.unamidpen.org THE JUSTICE OF RECONCILIATION Wednesday October 21 at 5:45 PM Stanford University: Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street

THE ENDURANCE OF RACISM Thursday October 22 at 4:55 PM East Palo Alto: Eastside College Preparatory School, Eastside Theater, 1041 Myrtle Street

ACCEPTANCE VS. BULLYING Thursday October 22 at 7:45 PM Stanford University: School of Education, CERAS Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall

THE QUEST FOR HEALTH Friday October 23 at 9:30 PM Stanford University: Stanford Medical School, Li Ka Shing Center Building Room LK130, 291 Campus Drive

THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Saturday October 24 at 4:00 PM Stanford University: Stanford Medical School, Li Ka Shing Center Building Room LK130, 291 Campus Drive

CLIMATE COUNTDOWN Sunday October 25 at 6:15 PM Stanford University: School of Education, CERAS Building, Room 101, 520 Galvez Mall

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AGORA - FROM DEMOCRACY TO THE DRIVING WITH SELVI HOTEL 22 MY DAD’S A ROCKER TASHI AND THE MONK continues throughout the academic MARKET e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] year bringing award-winning docu- e: [email protected] w: www.drivingwithselvi.com w: www.elizabeth-lo.com w: www.facebook.com/mydadsrocker w: www.tashiandthemonk.com mentaries, film makers and speakers w: www.agorathedoc.com to Stanford in the classroom and DRONE I AM ABLE A NEW PATH THANK YOU FOR PLAYING ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] special events. If you are interested e: [email protected] w: www.dronethedocumentary.com w: www.gregorywalsh.net w: www.thankyouforplayingfilm.com in having docs through the CAW w: www.alicewalkerfilm.com I’M NOT RACIST… AM I? Program at your event or in your EDDIE ADAMS: SAIGON ‘68 e: [email protected] NORMA’S STORY THE TROUBLE WITH BREAD ANTARCTIC EDGE: 70 DEGREES SOUTH e: [email protected] w: www.notracistmovie.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] dorm, please email: [email protected]. e: [email protected] w: www.saigon68.com/Eddie_Adams_ w: www.twitter.com/NormasStory w: www.thetroublewithbread.com w: www.beyondtheice.rutgers.edu SAIGON68/Saigon68_Home.html INDIA’S DAUGHTER e: [email protected] OIL & WATER UNFAIR GAME: THE POLITICS OF AUSTRALIA’S MARINE PROTECTED F R E E w: www.indiasdaughter.com e: [email protected] POACHING AREAS: THE SEA & ME e: [email protected] w: www.oilandwaterdocumentary.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.freethedocumentary.com INEQUALITY FOR ALL w: www.mvfg.com w: www.bluebottlefilms.com e: [email protected] OMO CHILD: THE RIVER AND THE BUSH FAR FROM HOME w: www.jacobkornbluth.com e: [email protected] VALENTINE ROAD BURDEN OF PEACE e: [email protected] w: www.omochildmovie.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.farfromhomemovie.com IT HAPPENED HERE w: www.valentineroaddocumentary.com w: www.burdenofpeace.com e: [email protected] PIRATES AND SLAVES FINDING HILLYWOOD w: www.ithappenedhere.squarespace.com e: [email protected] VESSEL CAPTURING GRACE e: [email protected] w: www.ejfoundation.org e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.findinghillywood.com JANE’S JOURNEY w: www.vesselthefilm.com w: www.capturinggracefilm.com e: [email protected] POET AGAINST PREJUDICE FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM w: www.firstrunfeatures.com/janesjourney e: [email protected] WHEN ELEPHANTS FIGHT CIRCUS WITHOUT BORDERS e: [email protected] w: www.bykids.org/unitedstates.php e: [email protected] e: [email protected] w: www.crackinthesystem.com KNEE DEEP w: www.whenelephantsfight.com Encouraged by overwhelmingly posi- w: www.circuswithoutborders.com e: [email protected] RACING TO ZERO: IN PURSUIT OF ZERO tive response from our audience and FROM BILLIONS TO NONE: THE w: www.kneedeepfilm.com WASTE WHERE SHOULD THE BIRDS FLY the media, we continue with year DAMNATION PASSENGER PIGEON’S FLIGHT TO e: [email protected] e: [email protected] e: [email protected] EXTINCTION A KNOCK ON MY DOOR w: www.trash24.org w: www.whereshouldthebirdsfly.org round screenings through our UNAFF w: www.damnationfilm.com e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Traveling Film Festival, which has w: www.billionstonone.com w: www.houseofchai.net THE SAME HEART WORSE THAN POOP! taken place in San Francisco, Berkeley, DAVID & ME e: [email protected] e: [email protected] Monterey, Santa Cruz, Davis, e: [email protected] GARBAGE OR RESOURCE? A LAND GRABBING w: www.thesameheart.com w: www.worsethanpoop.com w: www.cargofilm-releasing.com/home/ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXPERIENCE e: [email protected] Saratoga, Sonoma, Sebastopol, San films/david-me e: [email protected] w: www.autlookfilms.com SOFT VENGEANCE: ALBIE SACHS AND XBOUNDARY Diego, Las Vegas, , Salt w: www.globalfoundationdd.org THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA e: [email protected] Lake City, Honolulu, Philadelphia, DIRTY WARS LET THE FIRE BURN e: [email protected] w: www.salmonbeyondborders.org/ e: [email protected] THE GIRLS OF THE TALIBAN e: [email protected] w: www.softvengeancefilm.com xboundary-film.html Chicago, Washington DC, New York, w: www.dirtywars.org e: [email protected] w: www.letthefireburn.com Burlington, Bellevue, Miami, La w: www.clover-films.com THE SOUND MAN YELLOW STARS OF TOLERANCE Crosse, Fryeburg, Houston, Durham (DIS)HONESTY - THE TRUTH ABOUT LIES LIBYA: AN IMPOSSIBLE NATION-STATE? e: [email protected] e: [email protected] at Duke University, New Haven at Yale e: [email protected] GOOD MUSLIM GIRLS e: [email protected] w: www.jemglo.org/portfolio-12.html w: www.thedishonestyproject.com e: [email protected] w: www.magnetotv.com STINK! University, Waukesha at University of e: [email protected] Wisconsin, Boston and Cambridge at DOROTHEA LANGE: GRAB A HUNK OF HAVANA CURVEBALL MANISLAM - ISLAM AND MASCULINITY w: www.stinkmovie.com Harvard University and international- LIGHTNING e: [email protected] e: [email protected] ly in Paris, Venice, Belgrade, Phnom e: [email protected] w: www.havanacurveball.info w: www.integralfilm.com w: www.grabahunkoflightning.com Penh and Abu Dhabi. For more details please check: www.unaff.org (Traveling Film Festival page) or contact us at [email protected]

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16 17 SPECIAL THANKS TO VENUES Venue abbreviations are shown after the date/time in the A-Z Films, pp. 3–9. Karen Adams Dianne Griffin Sunil Mahadeshwar Nilofar Saraj Shalabh Agarwal Amrita Grover Judy and George Marcus Diane and John Savage Roberta Ahlquist Corliss Hartge Elliot Margolies Iva Sijan PA-AQUARIUS Linda Arrillaga Sadia Halima Betty Meissner Gail Silva Aquarius Theater Jonathan Berger Cliff Hayashi Norman Naimak Marty Simmons SU-CERAS 430 Emerson Street Joanie Berry Stephen Hinton Stephen Nemeth Amanda Smith School of Education Palo Alto, CA 94301 Helen and Peter Bing Karen How Bryanna Nino Paula and Steve Smith CERAS Building, Room 101 Chris Bischof Joshua Hurst Julie Noblitt Christiana State 520 Galvez Mall PA-CUBBERLEY Coit Blacker Christopher Lance Jenkins Jesse Norfleet Stephen J. Stedman PALO ALTO (PA) Cubberley Community Center SU- ENCINA HALL City of Palo Alto Dick Bogard and Iris Fraser Qinghui Ji Catherine O’Brien Matthew Tiews STANFORD Freeman Spogli Institute for EAST PALO ALTO (EPA) 4000 Middlefield Road Pat Burt Pitch Johnson Linda Lopez-Otero Tamara Turner International Studies Palo Alto, CA 94303 Flavia Cassani Carolyn Karr Deborah Farrington Padilla Anil Vasudev UNIVERSITY (SU) Encina Hall AND Martin Carnoy Cathy Keys Nicki and Joe Parisi Jane Wales VENUES 616 Serra Street EPA-EASTSIDE Priya Chandraker Ashraf Khan Tara Peattie Hannah Faye Waleh SAN FRANCISCO (SF) Eastside College Prepatory School Theater Beth Charlesworth Sophie Kim Amy Peruzzaro Dave Walter SU- MEDICAL SCHOOL 1041 Myrtle Street Stanford Medical School VENUES East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Priscilla and Martin Connelly Yoriko Kishimoto Alina Predescu Xavier Webb Li Ka Shing Center Building David D’Arcy Shelly Kosak Mariana Price Chris Whatley Room LK130 SF-NINTH STREET David Demarest Wanda Kownacki Priscilla Reagan Kathleen White 291 Campus Drive Ninth Street Independent Film Center Roberta and Steve Denning Jan Krawitz Janice Rensch Maggie Wilde 145 9th Street Bill Dimitri Dawn Kwan David Rock Bryan Wolf San Francisco, CA 94103 Dale Djerassi Tara Kyle Susan Rohani Stacy Wood William Draper Karen Larsen Perryn Reis Rowland Sura Wood Robin Gartwait Joshua Lasell Laarni von Ruden Joy Yang George Geevargis Marina Latu Jacque Rupp Marcia Yoon-Yeates Yoanna Gerwel Federici Mireille Le Breton Robert Russell Helen Young 18th UNAFF Headquarters at the Garden Court Hotel, 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto Dianne Giancarlo Michael Levin Kristine Samuelson Patience Young Headquarter hours: 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM (contact person Karen How [email protected]) Robert Glover Catherine Cosse Pat Sanders Dianna Zupp

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