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With over 50 films, where do you even begin? Here’s a good place to start. All BIRD OF PREY 10/3 + 10/6 THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION Presented by North Cascades Audubon Society BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB 10/8 DAWNLAND 10/27 10/4 + 10/7 Doctober films with descriptions and details in alphabetical order. More of 10/3 - Skype Q+A with Neil Rettig, Cinematographer and PFC’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series Q+A with Becky Larsen, Swinomish Tribal member Presented by Cosmos Bistro a visual person? Flip to our centerfold to check out our groovy festival map. Dr. Laura Johnson, Expedition Coordinator Tickets are only $3 thanks to our sponsor Dave Mauro Tickets are free, presented as part of Indie Lens Pop-Up Q+A with Cinnamon Berg, Owner and Head Chef of Cosmos 10/6 - Intro by Bud Anderson, Raptor Research Group founder Nearly 20 years ago, the Pickford showed this Witness the first state-sanctioned Truth and We live in the age of the celebrity chef. Trouble is, nearly The ultimate essential in planning your busy month. 50% of proceeds donated to the Philippine Eagle Foundation documentary by Wim Wenders and Ry Cooder about a Reconciliation Commission try to help Native Americans all of them are men. This doc profiles seven female Wildlife cinematographer Neil Rettig wanted to find and constellation of Cuban musical luminaries, and people in Maine whose children were forcibly removed from chefs–with plenty of mouthwatering footage of their film the rarest eagle on the planet, the Philippine eagle. literally danced in the aisles. Feel free to take your cue their homes and placed with white families. What delicious food–and how they counter the struggles 9/29 + 10/1 10/13 + 10/15 3100, RUN AND BECOME ALL THE WILD HORSES In doing so, he meets the people who have devoted their from that audience and dance accordingly. 105 min.G. begins as a mission of healing becomes one of action to they face in a male-dominated and testosterone-fueled Presented by the Greater Bellingham Running Club This is the story of the Mongol Relay, a 1,000-kilometer lives to saving this almost-extinct species and the old- preserve the inalienable rights of Indigenous families. industry. 75 min. Unrated. This narrative-style doc follows (literally) indigenous relay race in which its participants ride semi-wild horses growth habitat that sustains it. 94 min. Unrated. CHEF FLYNN 10/20 + 10/25 86 min. Unrated. across grueling Mongolian terrain where the hazards ultra-runners from Botswana to Japan, with a special Presented by GrowNW Magazine emphasis on those who take on the Self-Transcendence include being struck by lightning or eaten by wolves. BISBEE ’17 10/7 + 10/16 Teen chef Flynn McGarry had his own supper club at 90 min. Unrated. 3100 Mile Race. A global exploration of the spiritual side In 1917, in the Arizona town of Bisbee, a sheriff’s posse New York Times Magazine 12, a cover profile at 15 and of putting one foot in front of the other. 1, 18 2018 - NOVEMBER | 360.738.0735 | SEPTEMBER Program | pickfordfilmcenter.org Festival Film Doctober rounded up nearly 1,200 immigrant miners and drove worked in prestigious kitchens all over the world before 79 min. Unrated. them deep into the New Mexico desert and left them to he could drive. A fascinating profile of a culinary prodigy
die. This doc–which uses music, historical reenactments and the mother who has devoted her life to his success. A BALLERINA’S TALE 10/13 and more–explores a town coming to grips with the 100- 83 min. Unrated. Pickford Family Matinees year anniversary of an event they’d just as soon forget. Tickets are only $1 thanks to Bank of the Pacific 112 min. PG. In 2015, Misty Copeland became the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at a HILLBILLY 9/30 + 10/9 major international ballet company. She narrates her Presented by the Subdued Stringband Jamboree 10/23 + 11/1 own doc about surviving judgment, stereotypes and THE DEVIL WE KNOW Skype Q+A with Director Sally Rubin Presented by Echoes Experimental Church Live music in the auditorium before the shows injuries in the often-brutal world of ballet. 85 min. Unrated. In Parkersburg, West Virginia, a DuPont plant Travel to Appalachia to explore the myths and AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN FOUR-PART manufacturing an ingredient used in Teflon was the misconceptions surrounding hillbillies--and then meet HARMONY 10/22 town’s main economic driver. Trouble is, the chemicals the unexpected community of artists, poets, activists, PFC’s 20th Anniversary Retrospective Series that provided employees with their livelihood were also queer musicians, intersectional feminists and more that Tickets are only $3 thanks to our sponsor Alice Clark killing them–and DuPont knew all about it. are blowing those stereotypes to bits. Amandla means “power,” and this 2002 Sundance Grand 95 min. Unrated. 87 min. Unrated.
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power and importance of music in the struggle to free DON’T BE NICE 10/28 + 10/30 THE HUMAN ELEMENT South Africa from Apartheid. 108 min. PG-13. Skype Q+A with Nikhil Melnechuck, Producer Opening Night! 9/28 + 9/29 BREWMASTER 10/26 + 10/30 CRIME + PUNISHMENT 9/30 + 10/24 Featuring Slam Poetry from Options High Students Featuring Q+A's with local brewers A powerful look at policing in New York City through Skype Q+A with Directors and Producers of the film BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY 9/30 + 10/6 If you’ve ever eyed your locally brewed IPA and dreamed the eyes of a dozen officers of color as they go public On their way to the 2016 National Championships, the National Geographic photographer James Balog Here we meet music collector Steve Young, who has of chucking your day job to brew beer, you’re in good to expose corruption within their department and a slam poetry team from New York’s Bowery Poetry Club journeys to the far corners of the Earth to demonstrate devoted a significant chunk of his life to preserving the company with the potential brewmasters profiled in private investigator working to exonerate a Rikers Island adopted the motto “Don’t be nice; be necessary.” This the effects of climate change through the four elements– golden era of the “industrial musical,” which were big- doc chronicles their journey to become champions and this doc who are trying to turn their passion into their prisoner. 112 min. Unrated. earth, air, fire and water–and how those effects are budget, Broadway-style productions written for the likes necessary voices during a summer of police violence and exacerbated by a fifth element: humans. profession. 95 min. Unrated. of General Electric, Xerox, and Ford. 87 min. Unrated racial unrest. 95 min. Unrated. 76 min. Unrated. Opens 10/5 @ the Limelight DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: ACTIVE MEASURES Vanity Fair recently asked, “Is this the documentary that BROTHERS IN ARMS 10/25 + 10/28 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS BEHIND THE CURVE 10/18 + 10/21 FREE SOLO Opens 10/19 @ the Limelight INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: THE STORY OF WAX can take down Trump?” While the answer is likely no, it The 1986 Vietnam war movie Platoon was low-budget CHEERLEADERS 10/27 + 10/29 Q+A with Director Daniel Clark and Mark Sargent on 10/21 Presented by Vital Climbing Gym 10/19 + 10/28 is a comprehensive, exhaustive account of the ways in indie, cast with then-unknowns (Willem Dafoe, Charlie Presented by Wink Wink Boutique TRAX! RECORDS Take a deep dive into the culture of flat-Earthers, and Win free day passes to Vital before the screenings Presented by Whats Up! Magazine which Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election Sheen, Johnny Depp), helmed by an untried director Murderball director Dana Adam Shapiro examines the BONUS: Vital members get discounted tickets find out who they are and what drives them in this Jello Biafra, Ian MacKaye, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl, and and the extent to which Trump is implicated in all of it. (Oliver Stone). Charlie Sheen narrates as cast and crew heyday of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, which Another doc about climbing El Capitan (see also: The surprisingly empathetic portrait. Spoiler alert: The Earth others talk about the rise and fall of unlikely record- 112 min. Unrated. take a look back at the wild ride that was the making of paired girls-next-door-gone-wild sex appeal and cultural Dawn Wall), this one by National Geographic and the is indeed round. 96 min. Unrated. store-turned-influential-indie-label Wax Trax, which this Oscar-winning classic. 100 min. Unrated. icon status with miniscule wages, draconian rules and a makers of Meru sees Alex Honnold try and scale the signed bands such as Ministry, Front 242, and My Life AFGHAN CYCLES 10/13 + 10/29 + Catch PLATOON 10/26 at the Limelight den mother who oversaw it all. 86 min. Unrated. forbidding rock–except he does it without ropes. THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: With the Thrill Kill Cult, bringing about an industrial Presented by Queens of Dirt 97 min. Unrated. LIFE LESSONS LEARNED FROM A MYTHICAL MAN Q+A with Filmmaker Sarah Menzies on 10/13 10/22 + 11/1 music revolution. 94 min. Unrated. 9/29 + 10/2 THE DAWN WALL For women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, simply The most challenging climb of Yosemite’s legendarily 10/15 + 10/20 In his off-screen life, Bill Murray has developed quite the GURRUMUL riding a bike is a rebellious act. Despite the danger, a challenging El Capitan is the Dawn Wall. In 2015, over Take an up-close look at celebrated Indigenous reputation for having random-yet-meaningful run-ins new generation of Afghan women are taking to their the course of 19 days, elite climbers Tommy Caldwell Australian musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, who SPECIAL GUESTS with strangers. The director collects those accounts while bikes, trying to revive the National Cycling Team against and Kevin Jorgeson attempted to scale the impossible died just days after signing off on this film. Blind from INTRO/Q+A/PANEL DISCUSSION
Doctober Film Festival | pickfordfilmcenter.org Program | SEPTEMBER | 360.738.0735 - NOVEMBER 2018 18 1, trying to engineer a Bill Murray story of his own. enormous odds. 90 min. Unrated. as the world watched. This doc brings you along for their 70 min. Unrated. birth and hailing from an isolated island, what would this extraordinary feat, which, for Caldwell was a lifetime in unique, reclusive artist do when fame came calling? LIMELIGHT CINEMA KEY 4 the making. 100 min. Unrated. 96 min. Unrated. 5 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
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THE HUMAN ELEMENT 3:30 3100, RUN AND BECOME 6:30 PICK OF THE LITTER 6:00 RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE Plays all week @ the Limelight Cinema TOBER 8:30 THE BILL MURRAY STORIES one month. many docs. 28 29
11:00AM RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA 5:30 PERSONAL STATEMENT 5:30 THE BILL MURRAY STORIES 5:30 RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE 5:00 RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA 6:15 RETURN TO MOUNT KENNEDY 11:00AM LA FLOR DE LA VIDA 1:30 HILLBILLY 8:00 3100, RUN AND BECOME 7:30 MR. FISH: 7:30 BIRD OF PREY 7:30 THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION 8:45 MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. 1:15 BIRD OF PREY CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END 4:00 CRIME + PUNISHMENT 6:00 ACTIVE MEASURES 3:30 MODIFIED Plays all week @ the Limelight Cinema 7:00 BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY 6:15 YOUTH UNSTOPPABLE 9:00 BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY 30 1 2 3 4 5 6
12:00 THE SILVER BRANCH 5:30 YOUTH UNSTOPPABLE 5:15 HILLBILLY 5:30 WHEN ELEPHANTS WERE YOUNG 5:30 THE SILVER BRANCH 6:00 UNITED SKATES 11:00AM PERSONAL STATEMENT 2:00 QUIET HEROES 6:15 BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB 7:30 LIVING IN THE FUTURE'S PAST 8:00 THE SILENCE OF OTHERS 7:30 SOUFRA 8:45 MR. SOUL 1:00 A BALLERINA'S TALE 4:15 THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION 7:45 THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET 3:15 INVENTING TOMORROW 6:45 BISBEE '17 6:00 AFGHAN CYCLES 1, 18 2018 - NOVEMBER | 360.738.0735 | SEPTEMBER Program | pickfordfilmcenter.org Festival Film Doctober 8:45 ALL THE WILD HORSES 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
11:00AM SOUFRA 5:15 ALL THE WILD HORSES 2:30 LA FLOR DE LA VIDA 5:15 UNITED SKATES 5:15 THE SILENCE OF OTHERS 6:15 INTO THE OKAVANGO NOON JODOROWSKY'S DUNE 1:00 OF FATHERS AND SONS 7:30 GURRUMUL 4:45 BISBEE '17 7:30 MODIFIED 7:45 BEHIND THE CURVE 8:30 INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: 12:30 GURRUMUL THE STORY OF WAX TRAX 4:00 YELLOW IS FORBIDDEN 7:30 TIME FOR ILHAN 2:45 THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET 6:15 FREE SOLO 7:00 RETURN TO MOUNT KENNEDY 5:15 CHEF FLYNN Plays all week @ the Limelight Cinema 8:00 SATAN & ADAM 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
11:00AM MR. SOUL 5:15 QUIET HEROES 2:30 SATAN & ADAM 5:30 YELLOW IS FORBIDDEN 3:00 INTO THE OKAVANGO 6:00 BREWMASTER 12:30 DAWNLAND 1:30 INVENTING TOMORROW 6:15 AMANDLA! A REVOLUTION IN 5:00 OF FATHERS AND SONS 8:00 CRIME + PUNISHMENT 5:30 CHEF FLYNN 8:30 PLATOON @ the Limelight Cinema 3:00 DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL FOUR-PART HARMONY REVOLUTION 4:00 MR FISH: 7:30 THE DEVIL WE KNOW 7:30 BROTHERS IN ARMS 8:45 TIME FOR ILHAN CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END 7:30 THE DAWN WALL 5:30 STUDIO 54 6:15 NOTHING LIKE A DAME 6:15 BEHIND THE CURVE Plays all week @ the Limelight Cinema 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
11:00AM BROTHERS IN ARMS 5:30 5:30 DON'T BE NICE 5:30 STUDIO 54 5:30 THE DEVIL WE KNOW AFGHAN CYCLES PURCHASE ADVANCE TICKETS, 1:15 DON'T BE NICE 7:45 8:00 BREWMASTER 8:00 MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. 7:45 THE DAWN WALL DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL WATCH TRAILERS, 4:15 INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: REVOLUTION THE STORY OF WAX TRAX AND GET MORE INFORMATION AT: pickfordfilmcenter.org/ doctober 28 29 30 31 1 Doctober Film Festival | pickfordfilmcenter.org Program | SEPTEMBER | 360.738.0735 - NOVEMBER 2018 18 1,
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PERSONAL STATEMENT 10/1 + 10/13 INTO THE OKAVANGO 10/19 + 10/25 MATANGI/MAYA/M.I.A. 10/5 + 10/31 Skype Q+A with Director Julianne Dressner, and stars In this immersive National Geographic doc, a crew of Presented by Make.Shift Art Space Karoline Jiminez and Enoch Jemmet after both shows scientists and local guides take a grueling yet gorgeous She’s an innovative pop star with both Grammy and Due to a critical nationwide shortage of guidance trip by river to Botswana’s Okavango Delta, one of the Oscar nominations, a political activist, provocateur and counselors, high school students are forced to guide last unspoiled places on the planet. Along the way, they lightning rod. She’s mercurial, mesmerizing and more each other through the complicated college application encounter brutal elements, Angola’s civil war and at than a little a little unmanageable. She’s M.I.A. and this is process. Follow three seniors at a low-income high least one marauding hippo. 88 min. Unrated her story. 97 min. Unrated. school as they counsel other students while applying for colleges themselves. 87 min. Unrated. MODIFIED 10/6 + 10/17 Presented by the Community Food Co-op PICK OF THE LITTER Panel discussion with Kristin Wheeler, Non-GMO Project; Opens 9/28 @ the Limelight Cinema Steve Crider, Soon Soup Advisors; and Uprising Seeds Presented by Brigadoon Service Dogs Shot over the course of 10 years by PBS Food’s Aube An impossibly adorable litter of puppies embarks on a Giroux, this charts the struggle to mandate GMO labeling two-year odyssey of intense training to become service of food in the United States and Canada, two major dogs for the blind. While they are all very good dogs, only holdouts of a practice widely embraced all over the the best of the best will make it–the pick of the litter. world. 87 min. Unrated. 81 min. Unrated.
QUIET HEROES 10/7 + 10/22 Presented by Sean Humphrey House INVENTING TOMORROW 10/13 + 10/21 Presented by Bellingham Public Schools Foundation and WWU Queer Resource Center Also featured as part of Doc-ED During the AIDS crisis, most gay people in conservative, Young people aren’t waiting around to save the world, religious Salt Lake City lived in secret and were often as this doc that highlights the work of teenage scientists refused treatment. Until two women, both medical illustrates. They’re testing water, studying soil, inventing professionals, met the health care crisis head on with systems to filter mining waste and make air pollutants great expertise, humanity and bravery. nontoxic–and they’re all on their way to compete in the 68 min. Unrated. MR. FISH: CARTOONING FROM THE DEEP END world’s largest science fair. 105 min. Unrated. 10/2 + 10/21 RETURN TO MOUNT KENNEDY 10/5 + 10/14
Skype Q+A with Mr. Fish after both shows Presented by the American Alpine Institute JODOROWSKY’S DUNE 10/20 Peppered with animation by Dwayne Booth, aka Q+A with Bob Whittaker and Leif Whittaker Rocket Sci-Fi Matinees incendiary political cartoonist Mr. Fish, this film outlines In 1965, legendary Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker A post-screening discussion with Steve Meyers on the a portrait of a man struggling with compromising his led Robert Kennedy on a climb to the first ascent of the mythology of Dune. Tickets are only $3 content for a paycheck during a time when subversive mountain named for his brother, John F. Kennedy. Fifty Before David Lynch’s decidedly bizarre 1984 version of voices are both necessary and dangerous. years later, their sons Bob Whittaker and Christopher 1, 18 2018 - NOVEMBER | 360.738.0735 | SEPTEMBER Program | pickfordfilmcenter.org Festival Film Doctober Frank Herbert’s sci-fi classic there was Chilean director 70 min. Unrated. Kennedy retraced their storied steps. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s–which would’ve starred 80 min. Unrated. Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dali, with a MR. SOUL 10/12 + 10/21 soundtrack by Pink Floyd–that died in development. Soul! was the best black television show most of us have Easily one of the most entertaining docs ever made never heard of. Dreamed up and hosted by Ellis Haizlip, about making movies. 90 min. PG-13. it was a groundbreaking variety show with such guests as Muhammad Ali, Patti LaBelle, James Baldwin, and others. Once lost to history, Mr. Soul finally gets his due. 90 min. Unrated.
NOTHING LIKE A DAME Opens 10/26 @ the Limelight Cinema
Be a fly on the wall for a freewheeling roundtable in which Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins trade theatrical anecdotes. Trust us, it’s every bit as acerbic, whip-smart and riotously hilarious as you want it to be. 94 min. Unrated. RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE 9/29 + 10/3 LA FLOR DE LA VIDA 10/6 + 10/16 Q+A with Director Quinn Costello on 9/29 Explore the nature and evolution of love as seen through The name might be a humorous reference to the the long marriage of Uruguay’s Gabriella and Aldo. creatures found in The Princess Bride, but nutria are no Together for 50 years, can their marriage survive when joke. Take a wild ride to coastal Louisiana where hordes faced with a crisis that could break them apart? of the giant swamp rats are descending–and destroying 86 min. Unrated. everything in their path. 71 min. Unrated.
LIVING IN THE FUTURE’S PAST 10/9 RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA 9/30 + 10/4 Presented by Sustainable Connections Presented by Mindport Exhibits Q+A following the Film with Paul Roberts, OF FATHERS AND SONS 10/14 + 10/23 Featuring mobile sound exhibits in the lobby Seattle Times Journalist Syrian director Talal Derki posed as a jihad-supporting Most of us know Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto Jeff Bridges narrates this unorthodox enviro doc, and war photographer to infiltrate the family of a member of as the man behind movie scores for The Revenant, The he wants to tell you all about your place in the world, an Al Qaeda-affiliated militia group in this chilling doc. Last Emperor, and others. He brings us along to explore weaving together beautiful footage, anthropology, What he gleaned: Learning to fight a holy war starts early his artistic process, as well as his affinity for nature and neuroscience, physics, evolutionary biology and much and at home. 98 min. Unrated. political activism in this contemplative and engaging more. 85 min. Unrated. doc. 100 min. Unrated.
SPECIAL GUESTS INTRO/Q+A/PANEL DISCUSSION Doctober Film Festival | pickfordfilmcenter.org Program | SEPTEMBER | 360.738.0735 - NOVEMBER 2018 18 1, LIMELIGHT CINEMA KEY 8 9
SATAN & ADAM 10/20 + 10/23 TIME FOR ILHAN 10/16 + 10/26 YELLOW IS FORBIDDEN 10/14 + 10/24 One night, a harmonica player asked if he could jam Presented as part of the Seventh Art Stand Presented by Cascadia Intl. Women’s Film Festival with a one-man band, and Satan & Adam, an unlikely Voter registration drive hosted by Indivisible Bellingham Post-screening discussion led by Baozhen Luo, CWIFF collaboration between a Jewish Ivy League graduate and She won a seat in the Minnesota House of Board Member a black Mississippi bluesman was born. A record deal Representatives in 2016, becoming the first Somali- Rihanna showed up to the 2015 Met Gala red carpet soon followed and the duo seemed poised for breakout American legislator in the United States. She’s now in a 55-pound, gold and fur dress by Guo Pei, and fame–and then the unexpected happened. running for the U.S. House of Representatives. She’s Ilhan suddenly the whole world wanted to know more about 78 min. Unrated. Omar, and this is the story of how she’s making history. the Chinese designer. This doc sheds light on Pei, her 89 min. Unrated. vision and her process, as she prepares for her 2017 Paris fashion week show and possible induction into France’s most prestigious fashion organization.
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THE SILENCE OF OTHERS 10/10 + 10/18 Presented by Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival UNITED SKATES 10/12 + 10/17 Post-screening discussions inside the theatre Presented by the Bellingham Roller Betties Carrying an endorsement from Pedro Almodovar, this Skype Q+A with the film’s Directors and Stars doc chronicles Spain’s bloody civil war and the ongoing When Dr. Dre and Queen Latifah couldn’t get played on fight for justice by those who were victimized by Gen. the radio, they took their music to the roller rinks, little- Francisco Franco and his brutal henchmen. known incubators of early hip-hop. Now disappearing, 95 min. Unrated. skate rinks were community hubs where the music was great, the moves were even better and joy was eternal. YOUTH UNSTOPPABLE 10/6 + 10/8 THE SILVER BRANCH 10/7 + 10/11 89 min. Unrated. Presented by The Climate Reality Project Bellingham Presented by the Bellingham Irish Festival Panel discussion with local young climate leaders Open jam session in the lobby before the 10/7 screening WHEN ELEPHANTS WERE YOUNG 10/10 Also featured as part of Doc-ED featuring homemade Irish soda bread, tea, and Irish book Presented by the Whatcom Museum in conjunction Director Slater Jewell-Kemker began documenting the displays by WWU Libraries Special Collections with their current exhibits Endangered Species and youth environmental movement when she was just 15 Dubbed a “vision-poem,” this atmospheric doc The Elephant in the Room. Free admission to the film. years old. A decade in, she’s compiled a compelling and introduces us to farmer/poet Patrick McCormack, who Wok is a young man living on the streets of Thailand, inspiring account of the young activists whose goal is is fighting to save an iconic piece of rural land in County eking out a living by begging with his elephant Nong Mai. nothing less than saving the planet from all of us adults
Clare, Ireland. A beautifully shot contemplation on the When he has an opportunity to release Nong Mai into who should know better. 88 min. Unrated. 1, 18 2018 - NOVEMBER | 360.738.0735 | SEPTEMBER Program | pickfordfilmcenter.org Festival Film Doctober wild places that connect us across generations. the wild, will he take it? And if he does, will the captive 75 min. Unrated. elephant survive? William Shatner narrates this look at the complex relationship between man and beast. SOUFRA 10/11 + 10/14 90 min. Unrated. Presented by Whatcom Family YMCA Girls on the Run THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! Presented as part of a national screening event THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET 10/8 + 10/20 celebrating the International Day of the Girl Presented by Superfeet Mariam Shaar, who lives in a refugee camp near Beirut, Even if you could walk all 8,000 miles of New York’s city slowly grows her food business and dreams of owning a streets, why would you want to? Jeremy Workman is food truck. Obstacle after obstacle is put in her way, but doing it, and he takes us along with him for an intimate, though Shaar may be gentle and quiet, she is a force to eccentric tour of the city and the man determined to see be reckoned with as this empowering doc proves. it one step at a time. 95 min. Unrated. 73 min. Unrated.
STUDIO 54 10/27 + 10/31 Presented by TWIST Seattle Queer Film Festival New York’s Studio 54 was more than just a nightclub, it was the distillation of a moment in time–that moment being the height of disco era. Travel back to the 1970s in all their star-studded, hedonistic glory with a doc that takes you behind the velvet ropes. 98 min. Unrated.
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