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Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival Celebrating 30 Years
November 8– 12, 2006 Festival Highlights 2006 – Celebrating 30 Years
Opening Night Closing Night
“Doc” Right to Return/Pioneers Wednesday, November 8 Sunday, November 12 7:00 pm, Program F1 7:00 pm, Program F20 Immy Humes. 2006. (Work in progress) Jonathan Demme, Daniel Wolff, and Abdul Franklin. 2006-2007. (Work in progress) Before mental illness shattered his promising life, Harold Louis (“Doc”) Humes co-founded The Paris Review (with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton), wrote two critically acclaimed novels, directed an underground film, and designed prefabricated paper houses for the poor. He was an integral part of the 1950s New York intellectual scene, a 60s free-speech militant, and a 70s visionary crazy genius. An early advocate of medical marijuana and therapeutic massage, he saw us as living in a culture of fear, manipulated by shadowy government and corporate powers. His filmmaker daughter, Immy Humes, recounts her father’s extraordinary life with archival films and audio recordings, and brings to life three vibrant decades of Right to Return/Pioneers is a powerful project about American cultural history. Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, the changing human ecology of some of the New Orleans George Plimpton, the F.B.I., and the C.I.A. are all featured in neighborhoods worst hit by the floods that followed this unsentimental portrait of a man and his times. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It features the pioneering Discussion with director Immy Humes, musician and Beat individuals and families who have chosen to exercise their generation ambassador David Amram, and other special guests self-granted “right to return” to their devastated homes in an effort to rebuild their lives. Discussion with directors Co-presenter: Independent Television Service and special guests
Focus on Bonnie Sherr Klein Inside China Post Katrina
The Mead Festival spotlights the work of author and award- This year’s festival features three very different films that winning filmmaker Bonnie Sherr Klein, who gained focus on the many issues facing China—from the effort to international acclaim as a member of Challenge for Change maintain traditional practices to realities of globalization and Studio D, the Women’s Unit and the AIDS crisis. Micha X. Peled’s China Blue (Program F2) of the National Film Board of Canada, provides unparalleled access to both the top and bottom where she directed the ground- levels of a blue jeans factory in Sichuan province; Ruby Yang’s breaking films Not a Love Story: A The Blood of Yingzhou District (Program F21) traces a year Film About Pornography (Program F3), in the life of children who have lost their parents to AIDS; and and Speaking Our Peace: A Film about Yang Rui’s The Bimo Records (Program F14) depicts the Women,Peace, and Power. SHAMELESS: disappearing traditions of Bimo clergy among the Yi people. The ART of Disability (Program F19) marks her return to filmmaking after a nearly two-decade absence due to a disabling stroke. The U.S. premiere of SHAMELESS will be followed by a community discussion led by Bonnie Sherr Klein and Simi Linton, director of the New York-based Disability/Arts The Festival showcases the work of some of America’s leading organization. Moreover, this year marks the 25th anniversary filmmakers who have tried to make sense of the Hurricane of the infamous documentary Not a Love Story. This screening Katrina tragedy by seeking out the details behind the headlines. will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker as The Festival presents, in marathon fashion, Spike Lee’s four- well as scholars and activists in the fields of women’s studies. hour documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Programs F10 & F11). A powerful chorus of witnesses, cutting across racial and class lines, contemplate the uncertain Hip-Hop Field Report Games For Change future of the Lower Ninth Ward. The screening will be followed Hip-hop culture has become This selection of videos Video games have come following games: Ayiti: by a discussion with Sam Pollard, co-producer/editor; Bertha synonymous with youth pays tribute to the culture’s of age, having surpassed The Cost of Life, Darfur is Lewis, Executive Director, New York ACORN; and noted New culture and plays a significant dominant aesthetic. Presented Hollywood box-office Dying, A Force More Powerful, economic role in the political in collaboration with the revenues for the third year and Tropical America, and Orleans-born musician, Dr. John. Jonathan Demme and his and entertainment markets Mount Vernon Hip-Hop Arts in a row. The games featured will be introduced and collaborators, Daniel Wolff and Abdul Franklin, also initiated a throughout the world. This Center and Muhammad’s in this special session have a moderated by Suzanne project — Right to Return/ Pioneers — that will present a year program, guest curated by Hip-Hop Arts Initiative, the relationship to documentary Seggerman and Benjamin long record of the human ecology of the New Orleans region. Erika Dalya Muhammad, program features: Roots, filmmaking because of their Stokes from Games for (Program F20) The Closing Night presentation features clips is conceptualized as a field BLING: Consequences and emphasis on social and Change. (Program F15) that focus on the courageous citizens who suffered through report of the culture’s Repercussions, and Sneakers. political issues. This program this calamitous natural, and then political, event. This year’s influence on pop trends. (Program F8) features demos of the post-Katrina programs help to celebrate their spirit. Margaret Mead Film All screenings are held at the American Museum of Natural History. & Video Festival Films are shown in a number of different program formats, ranging from a single full-length movie to multiple short films. Ticket prices are per program. Tickets may be purchased in advance for any program on the Festival schedule. Each program is identified by a program code. Please Ticket Information refer to the program code when ordering tickets.
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Schedule LeFrak Theater Kaufmann Theater Linder Theater
Wednesday, Nov. 8 7:00 pm Program F1 “Doc” 57 min. Opening Night
Thursday, Nov. 9 6:30 pm Program F2 8:40 pm Program F3 6:45 pm Program F4 8:30 pm Program F5 China Blue 88 min. Not a Love Story: A Film Shooting Under Fire 72 min. It Ain’t Disneyland 3:30 min. about Pornography 70 min. The Chances of the World Changing 99 min.
Friday, Nov. 10 6:30 pm Program F6 8:45 pm Program F7 6:30 pm Program F8 8:45 pm Program F9 Under the Roller John & Jane Toll-Free 83 min. Hip-Hop Field Report Rain in a Dry Land 83 min. Coaster 15 min. Roots 5 min. Today’s Man 55 min. BLING: Consequences and Repercussions 11 min. Sneakers 52 min.
Saturday, Nov. 11 12:30 pm Programs F10 & F11 6:00 pm Program F12 12:45 pm Program F14 6:15 pm Program F16 When the Levees Broke Flock of Dodos 84 min. The Bimo Records 91 min. Chronicles of a Professional 255 min. (There will be a 8:30 pm Program F13 3:45 pm Program F15 Eulogist 7 min. half-hour intermission after The War Tapes 97 min. Games for Change (demos) On the Road with the Red God: Parts 1 & 2) Ayiti: The Cost of Life Machhendranath 52 min. Darfur is Dying 8:00 pm Program F17 Pavee Lackeen (The Traveller A Force More Powerful Girl) 87 min. Tropical America
Sunday, Nov. 12 1:45 pm Program F18 7:00 pm Program F20 1:30 pm Program F21 4:00 pm Program F22 El Inmigrante 90 min. Right to Return/Pioneers The Bicycle: Fighting AIDS A Map With Gaps 26 min. 4:15 pm Program F19 (clips from a work in progress) with Community Medicine How Little We Know of Our My Beautiful Smile 5 min. Closing Night 14 min. Neighbours 50 min. SHAMELESS: The ART The Blood of Yingzhou of Disability 72 min. District 39 min. Alphabetical Listing
Saturday, November 11 This innovative video game unexpected events. The game Ayiti: The Cost 3:45pm, Program F15 allows the player to assume was developed in an after- of Life Discussion with game makers the role of various family school program in which members living in rural Haiti. youth leaders from Global Global Kids, in collaboration With Darfur is Dying, Over the course of the game, Kids, in the Playing 4 with Game Lab. 2006. A Force More Powerful, and the player balances goals Keeps program, worked in Video Game. (U.S.) Tropical America such as getting an education, partnership with the game making money, staying developers at Game Lab. healthy, and seeking happiness http://olp.globalkids.org/ while encountering Co-presenter:Gamesfor Change
Sunday, November 12 Each day, Pax Chingawale in southern Malawi, Africa. The Bicycle: 1:30pm, Program F21 pedals his bicycle more Pax is not a doctor or a nurse, Fighting Discussion with Morris Rossabi, than 20 kilometers from but an HIV-positive volunteer Columbia University, Adjunct village to village, working who understands the AIDS with Associate Professor of Early with traditional healers life- saving importance of Community Chinese and Inner Asian History in a grass-roots effort to antiretroviral therapy. and Sara (Meg) Davis, Ph.D., combat the spread of AIDS Medicine Executive Director of Asia Action Co-presenter: Open Society Institute Katerina Cizek. 2005. With The Blood of Yingzhou 14 min. (Canada/Malawi) District World Premiere
Saturday, November 11 This stunning observational remain an integral part of Co-presenter: The Center for The Bimo 12:45pm, Program F14 film by a Chinese filmmaker Yi life, and the Bimo clergy Religion and Media and the Records Discussion with director and focuses on the lives of three conduct rituals that bridge Center for Media, Culture and Angela Zito, NYU Associate History at New York University Yang Rui. 2006. Bimo clergy of the Yi people, the worlds between mortals 91 min. (China) U.S. Premiere Professor of Anthropology one of the ethnic minorities and ghosts. The old ways and Religious Studies, living in the Da Liangshan seem safe here, shrouded in Director of the Religious Mountains of China. In this the mist, but assimilation Studies Program and remote landscape, festivals and modernity are eroding Founder/Co-director of and religious traditions the traditional ways. the Center for Religion and Media
Friday, November 10 Narrated by hip-hop legend Kanye West’s music video, and carnage caused by BLING: 6:30pm, Program F8 Chuck D, BLING: Consequences Diamonds from Sierra Leone, the world’s greed for this and Repercussions tackles introduced the topic of precious gem. Consequences With Roots and Sneakers the issues behind hip-hop’s conflict diamonds to urban & Repercussions obsession with diamonds communities and BLING Co-presenter: The Mount Kareem Edouard. 2005. and the continued illegal further educates the hip-hop Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center 11 min. (U.S.) diamond trade in Africa. generation about the murder
Sunday, November 12 Gao Jun is an orphan with virus. The Blood of Yingzhou Co-presenter: Open Society The Blood 1:30pm, Program F21 severe challenges. Both District documents a year in Institute of Yingzhou Discussion with director; Morris his parents have died from the life of Gao Jun and other Rossabi, Columbia University, AIDS, and the toddler is also children in several villages District Adjunct Associate Professor of HIV-positive. Residents in his of Anhui Province who have Ruby Yang. 2006. Early Chinese and Inner Asian remote village in southeast lost their parents to AIDS 39 min. (China) NY Premiere History; Sara (Meg) Davis, China, including some of his in a region where traditional Ph.D., Executive Director of extended family, won’t go obligations to family and Asia Action near him, mistakenly fearing village collide with terror of they could catch the deadly the disease. With The Bicycle: Fighting AIDS with Community Medicine Thursday, November 9 An extraordinary document Abandoning his literary tale unfolds, creating a new The Chances 8:30pm, Program F5 of two years in the life of work, Ogust transforms his breed of dramatic nature film of the World Discussion with director and Richard Ogust, a writer who Manhattan apartment featuring time, death, love … George Amato, Director, enters strange territory as he into a veritable “Noah’s ark” and turtles. Changing Conservation Genetics, AMNH finds himself struggling to filled with 1,200 endangered Co-presenter: American Eric Daniel Metzgar. 2005. save the lives of hundreds of turtles. As his passion turns With It Ain’t Disneyland Documentary/P.O.V. 99 min. (U.S.) endangered turtles. into an enterprise, an epic
Thursday, November 9 China Blue takes us inside by the factory’s owner. The Co-presenter: Asian CineVision China Blue 6:30pm, Program F2 a blue jeans factory in complexities of globalization Micha X. Peled. 2005. Discussion with Mickey Spiegel, Southern China where we are brought to a human 88 min. (U.S./China) Senior Researcher, Human follow the lives of Jasmine level through these moving NY Premiere Rights Watch; Xudong Zhang, and her friends, young portraits of the young workers Professor and Chair, Dept. working girls struggling who make our clothes. of East Asian Studies; Sharon to fulfill the impossible Hom, Executive Director of obligations forced upon them Human Rights in China and Professor Emeritus of Law,CUNY School of Law; and Michael Santoro, Business School Professor, Rutgers University
Saturday, November 11 In this hand-drawn animated Chronicles of 6:15pm, Program F16 short, a rabbi takes us a Professional Discussion with Jonathan on an amusing philosophical Milder (the narrator) journey as he considers his Eulogist role as a “grief facilitator.” With On the Road with the Sarah Jane Lapp. 2005. Red God: Machhendranath 7 min. (U.S.)
Saturday, November 11 This video game attempts of the challenges refugees in partnership with the Reebok Darfur is Dying 3:45pm, Program F15 to put the player in the shoes and displaced persons face, Human Rights Foundation and Susana Ruiz, Ashley York & Discussion with game makers of one of the 2.5 million as well as how to take action the International Crisis Group. Huy Truong. 2006. refugees who are fighting to help stop the crisis. The With Ayiti: The Cost of Life, Video Game. (U.S.) for survival every day in game was developed for the Co-presenter: Games for Change A Force More Powerful, and the Darfur region of Sudan. Darfur Digital Activist Contest Tropical America Players learn about some that was launched by mtvU
Wednesday, November 8 Before mental illness shattered us as living in a culture of Co-presenter: Independent “Doc” 7:00pm, Program F1 his promising life, Harold Louis fear, manipulated by shadowy Television Service Immy Humes. 2006. Discussion with director (“Doc”) Humes co-founded government and corporate 57 min. Immy Humes, musician The Paris Review, wrote two powers. His filmmaker (Work in progress) and Beat generation critically acclaimed novels, daughter recounts her father’s ambassador David Amram, directed an underground film, extraordinary life with archival and other special guests and designed prefabricated films and audio recordings, paper houses for the poor. He and brings to life three was an integral part of the vibrant decades of American 1950s New York intellectual cultural history. Timothy scene, a 60s free-speech Leary, Norman Mailer, George militant, and a 70s visionary Plimpton, the F.B.I., and the Opening Night crazy genius. An early advocate C.I.A. are all featured in of medical marijuana and this unsentimental portrait therapeutic massage, he saw of a man and his times.
Saturday, November 11 Who are the dodos in the 82-year-old mother who is “debate” of who’s right and Flock of Dodos 6:00pm, Program F12 current debate over evolution neighbors with the top lawyer who’s wrong. Instead, it explores Randy Olson. 2006. Panel discussion with director; versus intelligent design? for intelligent design in how those who embrace each 84 min. (U.S.) Joel Cracraft, Lamont Curator, Marine biologist turned film- Olson’s home state of Kansas, side are “communicating” their Department of Ornithology, maker Randy Olson travels which is the epicenter of the ideas to the public. AMNH; and others the country in search of an controversy.This film gets answer. He starts with his beyond the tedium of the Co-presenter: Seed Magazine
Saturday, November 11 A Force More Powerful is helped overthrow Slobodan campaigns for political A Force More 3:45pm, Program F15 the first and only interactive Milosevic in 2000, the game and human rights for Powerful Discussion with senior game teaching tool in the field of simulates nonviolent struggles minorities and women. producer Steve York The International Center nonviolent conflict. Developed to win freedom and secure www.afmpgame.com on Nonviolent Conflict & With Ayiti: The Cost of Life, with design assistance human rights against dictators, York Zimmerman Inc. 2006. Darfur is Dying, and Tropical from some of the Serbian occupiers, colonizers, and Co-presenter:Games for Change Video Game. (U.S.) America resistance leaders who corrupt regimes, as well as
Sunday, November 12 This provocative video essay with surrealism. The film and its eventual emergence How Little We 4:00pm, Program F22 about surveillence explores traces the history of the as a market research firm in Know of Our Discussion with director the British “mass observation” movement, from its inception the 1950s. movement, a social science as a progressive, if naïve, With A Map with Gaps Neighbours enterprise founded in the “anthropology of ourselves” Co-presenter: The Vera List Rebecca Baron. 2005. late 1930s in England that to its reincarnation as a civil Center for Art and Politics, 50 min. (U.K.) NY Premiere combined anthropology spy unit during World War II The New School Sunday, November 12 This film explores the diverse, including Eusebio’s El Inmigrante 1:45pm, Program F18 American and Mexican border family in Mexico,the community David Eckenrode, Discussion with Dr.Josh DeWind, crisis, illuminated by the of Brackettville, Texas, the John Sheedy, John Director of the Migration story of Eusebio de Haro, a horseback border patrol in Eckenrode. 2005. Program at the Social Science young Mexican migrant who El Paso, and other migrants en 90 min. (U.S./Mexico) Research Council; Robert was shot and killed during route to the United States. C. Smith, Associate Professor one of his journeys north. Their perspectives come of Immigration Studies This event becomes the point together to create a moving at Baruch College and the of departure for a far more political commentary on the Graduate Center, CUNY; multi-layered border tale, current state of border issues. Joel Magallan, Executive one that’s especially relevant Director of Tepeyac; and in the face of our nation’s Co-presenter: Cinema Tropical a representative from the New current immigration dispute. York Immigration Coalition The cast of this film is
Thursday, November 9 When the residents and local center for the community’s It Ain’t 8:30pm, Program F5 police in a British housing young people. This animated development came together, short, created by teens at Disneyland With The Chances of the the result was a much-needed the center, gives life to their Martin Orton and World Changing Greg Villalobos. 2006. successful partnership. 3:30 min. (U.K.)
Friday, November 10 An intimate portrait of young work night shifts selling dream of America. Welcome John & Jane 8:45pm, Program F7 South Asians who work everything from insurance to to the world of offshore Toll-Free Discussion with Vyjayanthi at call centers in Mumbai. pancake molds. Bridging call centers. Rao, Assistant Professor Ashim Ahluwalia. 2005. Assuming American names continents by telephone, they 83 min. (India) of Anthropology and such as Nicky, Naomi, and pitch products and soothe Co-presenter: Indo-American International Affairs, Glen, these new members of frayed consumer nerves. As Arts Council New School University the global white-collar class they troubleshoot, they
Sunday, November 12 Using a combination of Soviet Russia in the early 1970s A Map 4:00pm, Program F22 archive audio recordings, still in a van he built and named photographs, drama “Supervan.” Truth can indeed With Gaps With How Little We Know of reconstruction, and animation, be stranger than fiction, and Alice Nelson. 2006. Our Neighbours 26 min. (Scotland) this surreal and comic tale sometimes the gray area Co-presenter: The Vera List NY Premiere is an account of a journey made between the two is the most Center for Art and Politics, by the director’s father through interesting place to explore. The New School
Sunday, November 12 With so much focus on My Beautiful 4:15pm, Program F19 whiter teeth, why not whiten yours the Senegalese way? Smile With SHAMELESS: The ART Angele Brener. 2005. 5 min. A look at what Senegalese of Disability (Senegal) U.S. Premiere women will endure for a beautiful smile.
Thursday, November 9 Twenty-five years after its Linda Lee Tracey, a stripper, it exists, the forms it takes, from some of pornography’s Not a Love Story: 8:40pm, Program F3 release, this infamous film sets out to explore the world and how it affects relations most outspoken critics. A Film About Discussion with director packs no less of a punch than of peep shows, strip joints, between men and women. (Note: This film contains and others it did upon its first screening. and sex supermarkets. Both The film offers insights and sexually explicit material.) Pornography A story of the odyssey of two protagonists are motivated perspectives from the men Bonnie Sherr Klein. 1981. women, Bonnie Sherr Klein, by the desire to know more and women who earn their 70 min. (Canada) the director of the film, and about pornography — why it living in the porn trade and
Saturday, November 11 The Machhendranath Raath rope through the narrow four-kilometer journey, which On theRoadwith 6:15pm, Program F16 Jaatra is Kathmandu Valley’s city streets of Patan. The larger can take a month, thousands oldest, lengthiest, and most chariot bears a carved and of worshipers gather to the Red God: With Chronicles of a spectacular festival. Celebrated painted figure of the deity celebrate the gods with Professional Eulogist Machhendranath once every 12 years, it features Rato Machhendranath, while offerings, music, and other Kesang Tseten. 2006. a race between two unwieldy a smaller one carries his auspicious acts. Co-presenter: Asia Society 52 min. (Nepal) NY Premiere chariots that are pulled by godson Minnath. During the
Saturday, November 11 Director Perry Ogden casts Traveller community. With a school, who lives with her and the narrative that Pavee Lackeen 8:00pm, Program F17 conventional plotting aside hand-held digital camera alcoholic mother and various give cinematic life to the (The Traveller Girl) in this hybrid documentary/ and the cooperation of a real siblings in a single cramped Travellers’ own stories. Perry Ogden. 2005. fiction film, with an unsparing Traveller family, the filmmaker trailer in industrial Dublin. 87 min. (Ireland) and unsentimental portrait follows 10-year-old Winnie, Ogden collaborated with his Co-presenter: New York of Ireland’s marginalized recently suspended from cast to create the characters Irish Center
Friday, November 10 Rigorously intimate and Camp in Kenya. As they on the conflicting notions Rain in 8:45pm, Program F9 disarmingly affectionate, struggle to reconcile their of what it means to be a Dry Land Discussion with director Rain in a Dry Land chronicles fantasies of American life (or become) an American. Anne Makepeace. 2006. 18 months in the lives of with its disconcerting realities, 83 min. (U.S./Kenya) two Somali Bantu families, the filmmaker unveils a Co-presenter: Human brought to the United States riveting portrait of families Rights Watch International from the Kakhuma Refugee in transition, shedding light Film Festival Sunday, November 12 Begun in January 2006, and Rita. It features the Right toReturn/ 7:00pm, Program F20 Right to Return/Pioneers is pioneering individuals and Pioneers Discussion with directors and halfway through one year families who have chosen special guests Jonathan Demme, Daniel of seasonal visits to New to exercise their self-granted Wolff, and Abdul Franklin. Orleans, documenting the “right to return” to their 2006-2007. changing human ecology of devastated homes in an (Work in Progress) some of the neighborhoods effort to rebuild their lives. worst hit by the floods that followed Hurricanes Katrina
Closing Night
Friday, November 10 Featuring Questlove and video collaborations between Co-presenter: The Mount Roots 6:30pm, Program F8 Black Thought of The Roots, hip-hop performers and Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center Meredith Danluck. 2005. Discussion with director this experimental video is visual artists for a fresh 5 min. (U.S.) World Premiere part of the Art Production blending of pop culture and With BLING: Consequences and Fund’s Video Art Music contemporary art. Repercussions and Sneakers Project (VAMP), a series of
Sunday, November 12 Award-winning director a world of art, activism, and dispels the myth of disability SHAMELESS: 4:15pm, Program F19 Bonnie Sherr Klein returns to disability, creating a funny as tragedy and celebrates The ART of Discussion with director, filmmaking with SHAMELESS and intimate portrait of five the wholeness of these diverse Simi Linton, founder of after a catastrophic stroke surprising individuals, including and full lives. Disability Disability/Arts, and others changed her life in 1987. Klein herself. Contradicting Bonnie Sherr Klein. 2006. From this unique perspective, other people’s preconceptions Co-Presenter: Disability/Arts With My Beautiful Smile 72 min. (Canada) U.S. Premiere she brings the audience into and stereotypes, Klein’s film
Thursday, November 9 Modern warfare is carried provide us with unbiased bureau in the West Bank conflict. This riveting film Shooting 6:45pm, Program F4 out both on the battlefield access to events as they and Gaza, and his team of local highlights the individuals Under Fire and in the media. More and happen. Shooting Under Fire Israeli and Palestinian who risk their lives to bring Sacha Mirzoeff. 2005. 72 min. more, we rely on journalists introduces Reinhard Krause, photographers who cover us the pictures. (Germany/Israel/Palestine) and photographers to head of the Reuters photo both sides of the Israeli Co-presenter: Committee to Protect Journalists
Friday, November 10 The footwear that dominates shell toes without laces. The Sneakers 6:30pm, Program F8 the streets today is unmistakably interaction of sports, music, Femke Wolting. 2004. Discussion with director the sports shoe, or sneaker. and street subcultures and 52 min. (Netherlands) Anyone who has ever set foot the clever marketing strategies With BLING: Consequences and NY Premiere inside a sneaker store has of the largest brands has Repercussions and Roots caught a glimpse of a complex made the sneaker a star in the world of subcultures and global fashion economy. identities, expressed through shoe styles. This energetic Co-presenter: The Mount documentary examines the Vernon Hip-Hop Arts Center forces that have created the current cult of the sneaker, from skateboarders in Vans to 80’s B-boys in white Adidas
Friday, November 10 Nicky Gottlieb is a young of an eye, he has trouble autism. This loving portrait Co-presenter: Job Path Today’s Man 6:30pm, Program F6 man struggling to leave the reading the simplest of facial by his filmmaker sister is Lizzie Gottlieb. 2006. Discussion with director and comfort and safety of his expressions, making social both a personal exploration 55 min. (U.S.) NY Premiere Nicky Gottlieb parents’ home and find his interaction difficult. At the of one family’s journey and a place in the world. While he age of 21, he is diagnosed broader effort to understand With Under the Roller Coaster can calculate the square root with Asperger’s syndrome, a this mysterious disorder. of any number in the blink high-functioning form of
Saturday, November 11 This online game brings the with Los Angeles artists, Tropical 3:45pm, Program F15 real-world terrors of teachers, writers, and high America Discussion with co-director investigating secret violence school students, Tropical OnRamp Arts. 2002. Jessica Irish in the Americas to the new America features bilingual Video Game. (U.S.) world of video games. Your thematic gameplay and is With Ayiti: The Cost of Life, journey begins as the sole accompanied by an online Darfur is Dying, and A Force survivor of a terrible massacre; database of educational More Powerful you must find four pieces resource materials, source of evidence that will bring texts, and imagery. justice to and preserve the memory of your small village. Co-presenter: Games for Change Developed in collaboration Friday, November 10 Mae Timpano takes us back Moran, and the life they Under the 6:30pm, Program F6 to Coney Island’s golden shared under the famed Roller Coaster Discussion with director years as she remembers her Thunderbolt Roller Coaster. long-time love, Freddy Lila Place. 2005. With Today’s Man 15 min. (U.S.)
The War Tapes Saturday, November 11 In March 2004, several experienced from the inside. Co-presenter: Iraq and Deborah Scranton. 2006. 8:30pm, Program F13 members of one National We see what the soldiers Afghanistan Veterans 97 min. (U.S./Iraq) Discussion with director Guard unit arrived in Iraq are thinking every step of America and a veteran from carrying digital video cameras. of the way, from their views Iraq and Afghanistan The stories of this diverse on the media’s coverage Veterans of America group provide an intimate of Operation Iraqi Freedom portrait of the Iraq war that to how they miss their loved we have not yet seen. Part ones back home.Candid,raw, journal, part joke book, and and strikingly honest, The War part witness, The War Tapes Tapes exposes the culture offers a view of war as it is of combat in the 21st century.
Saturday, November 11 On August 29, 2005, the city one of the United States’ When the 12:30pm, Programs F10 & F11 of New Orleans was forever most profound natural and Levees Broke: Discussion with Sam Pollard, changed when Hurricane human disasters through co-producer/editor; Bertha Katrina made landfall, words and images. In addition A Requiem Lewis, Executive Director, breaching levees, flooding to revisiting the hours leading in Four Acts New York ACORN; and New neighborhoods, and killing up to the devastating storm, Orleans-born musician, more than a thousand the film tells the personal Spike Lee. 2006. Dr. John residents. One year later, stories of those who survived 255 min. (U.S.) acclaimed director Spike Lee it, and explores the tensions U.S. Festival Premiere presents a four-part of a nation sharply divided documentary that recounts along race and class lines.
Co-presenter: New York ACORN
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